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For many years I worked for IBM and then I worked for Microsoft and then I worked for startup #1. All three of these shared one process... IF employee performance = sub par, THEN promote employee. In all three places, HR rules and processes made it far easier to promote someone to another job in another area than to fire that someone's ass.
I think it has changed a lot now but when I was at IBM, I used to swear that you would have to be doing it with a duck in the lobby while selling dope to get fired and then I think it was fairly dependant on the duck's attitude and the quality of the dope.
And then I came here. I started on the same day as a new sales guy. The next month, the ubiquitous email 'xxx has left to pursue other opportunities' was circulated. I asked one of the managers what the inside skippy was and he told me that xxx wasn't doing squat so he got fired. Since then, I've seen others - a fair number considering we've yet to top 50 employees - relieved of their paycheck because they weren't cutting it.
Personally, I love it. If I have doubts about my own performance I stop and think, well, I'm still working here so I can't be screwing up that badly!
Lately, however, things are changing at bit. We have a couple of executives are definitely floundering unchecked. And it's beginning to show with people leaving. You gotta think you have a problem when the popular perception is that no one is hiring in this town and yet things are so bad here that key people are quitting.
It makes for some disconcerting days.
I think it has changed a lot now but when I was at IBM, I used to swear that you would have to be doing it with a duck in the lobby while selling dope to get fired and then I think it was fairly dependant on the duck's attitude and the quality of the dope.
And then I came here. I started on the same day as a new sales guy. The next month, the ubiquitous email 'xxx has left to pursue other opportunities' was circulated. I asked one of the managers what the inside skippy was and he told me that xxx wasn't doing squat so he got fired. Since then, I've seen others - a fair number considering we've yet to top 50 employees - relieved of their paycheck because they weren't cutting it.
Personally, I love it. If I have doubts about my own performance I stop and think, well, I'm still working here so I can't be screwing up that badly!
Lately, however, things are changing at bit. We have a couple of executives are definitely floundering unchecked. And it's beginning to show with people leaving. You gotta think you have a problem when the popular perception is that no one is hiring in this town and yet things are so bad here that key people are quitting.
It makes for some disconcerting days.
