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As a non manager, keeping parasites around is bad for moral.
Firing them is also bad for morale, for different reasons. Only solution is to not hire parasites in the first place.
It makes them question why THEY are the suckers doing the hard work.
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"evidence a very poorly performing employee was reading articles on the web most of the day" Sounds like probable cause for a warrant. Not that employers needs a warrant to use their own property, but to assure employees that they aren't being watched unless there's legitimate suspicion.
A warrant??? I'm not aware of any country where you can/need to get a warrant to "spy" on your employees. In some countries that would be illegal. If said employee manages to do what others do while mostly surfing the web that's great. If they aren't delivering then by all means fire them (ideally with some sort of process to actually let them fix it). I don't see what the spying buys other than the mistrust of emplo…
The article fails to address when the firing is actually wrong and incorrect. I work at anduril and I know of a new manager who 6 months into the job fired 2 people and had one person quit because he couldn't handle dealing with him. The manager obviously is blind to see the statistical significance of that many people gone in 6 months. He likely views it as a performance problem of 3 people rather then the more like…
> The article fails to address when the firing is actually wrong and incorrect. > > I work at anduril and I know of a new manager who 6 months into the job fired 2 people and had one person quit because he couldn't handle dealing with him. You can't tell from "statistical significance" if a firing is good or not. Maybe those three people have needed to be fitted for a while. Maybe, as the article says, it comes down…
3 people being simultaneously not fit for the job is quite unlikely.
You have a choice here. Either 1 person is unfit for the job or 3 people. 1 person being unfit though not for sure is Far more likely.
By one person I mean the manager is not fit. But in these cases usually the manager side steps the numbers and thinks he's doing the right thing.