Dumb Rules That Make Your Best People Want to Quit (2017)

Post by amarkov » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 2:22 AM UTC

sonnyblarney wrote: post #57

dagw wrote: post #56

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Personally, blunt candor can work as well. Only if it goes both ways. If I can't respond to my managers blunt candor with "the reason we're so far behind is because you suck at time management and promised the customer two features we hadn't even begun to plan for" without fear of being reprimanded or punished then blunt candor isn't very effective.

""the reason we're so far behind is because you suck at time management and promised the customer two features we hadn't even begun to plan for" " First, if you ever said that to your boss you should definitely be fired. Second, that's operational information, not performance feedback. Third, it's not your prerogative to tell your boss what he's good or bad at. They give you the review, not the other way around.

Post by mythrwy » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 4:16 AM UTC

sonnyblarney wrote: post #57

dagw wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, blunt candor can work as well. Only if it goes both ways. If I can't respond to my managers blunt candor with "the reason we're so far behind is because you suck at time management and promised the customer two features we hadn't even begun to plan for" without fear of being reprimanded or punished then blunt candor isn't very effective.

""the reason we're so far behind is because you suck at time management and promised the customer two features we hadn't even begun to plan for" " First, if you ever said that to your boss you should definitely be fired. Second, that's operational information, not performance feedback. Third, it's not your prerogative to tell your boss what he's good or bad at. They give you the review, not the other way around.

Post by k__ » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 12:34 PM UTC

Jedi72 wrote: post #72

k__ wrote: post #54

"If you have mediocre people doing mediocre work, you are going to have a mediocre company." Aren't most people mediocre per definition? I really hate all this talk about "We want the best of the best!" Sure you want them, but there aren't enough for all and chances are, if you aren't a really big company, you won't get the few that exist. You need to shape you company so that you can deliver value to your customers…

Even more common is "we want the best of the best, but want to pay median wages."

Post by jamestimmins » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 8:39 PM UTC

chrisdhoover wrote: post #67

jamestimmins wrote: post #34

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In some countries a "shirt" means specifically a button-down. In the same way that "slacks" means long pants. So this likely just means that a button-down is required rather than a t-shirt.

A button down shirt is one where the collar is buttoned to the yoke. I think you mean a button up shirt, one that has a placket and buttons in the front versus a pull over or t-shirt.

Post by bartread » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC

EliRivers wrote: post #58

bartread wrote: post #24

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I was wondering that as well. Exactly what sort of leather garments are we talking about here?

They were leather trousers, as I recall. Laced up at the sides; not sure if they were permanently joined at the top, or if they were just a front and a back that one had to completely tie together. Nobody had a problem with the leather (although a peekaboo stripe of visible leg down the outside of each, covered in a criss cross of something that looked like shoelace was sometimes a surprise). That was just flavour de…