> As heartless as this may seem... It's not heartless, it's just stupid. It's like screwing in a lightbulb with a hammer. > And I didn’t want to do the task so, consciously ignoring Mr. Weinberg, I transformed the ordeal into an optimization problem, for which I wrote an application to help me with. Treating people like robots is probably the worst way to solve people ops problems. It's like managers learned nothing…
He needed to evaluate the team based on some criteria one way or another. He chose certain criteria and used the computer to assist him in the evaluation. Another option would be to choose the team on who you just "like the most". Maybe this would have been more to your liking? It's more human, I guess. However, notice that there is still a criteria and still an evaluation phase, you can't avoid it (unless you pick b…
I used better evaluation criteria when figuring out who to kick out of my World of Warcraft guild than this guy used on his employees. Anyone that defends OP's post clearly has never led a team of anything or been in charge of people.
Writing a program to "optimize" who to fire is bonkers and shows a clear lack of leadership strategy.