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On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:44 +0000, George Prowse wrote: |
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> Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> > |
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> >>>> |
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> >>> As I recall, flameeyes made the statement to kloeri, and kloeri called |
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> >>> it blackmail. Whatever you call it, in business, issuing such an |
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> >>> ultimatum is one of the quickest ways to become unemployed. |
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> >>> |
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> >> So you'd rather let one of the best employees go rather than chastise a |
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> >> worker who is leaving soon? Thats just cutting off your nose to spite |
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> >> your face. |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> > |
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> > You misunderstand. The analogy is that I walk into my boss's office and |
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> > say "Fire Joe or I'm gone", in which case I can expect to be gone one |
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> > way or the other. |
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> Joe was leaving anyway. Ask Joe to leave soon which saves every single |
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> problem. Joe just does what he was going to do, you get what you want |
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> and the company keeps on running smoothly. The company then has the |
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> choice of making it known to you that it will not be tolerated in the |
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> future. |
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> |
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Whether or not Joe is leaving or not is irrelevant to how to treat my |
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conduct. Apparently in this case I did not know Joe was leaving, and it |
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is never (well, hardly ever) acceptable to make such demands. "Joe goes |
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or I go" says something about me, not about Joe. And what it says (if |
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nothing else) is that I am a problem employee who considers himself to |
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be indispensable. |
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We (or anyone else) just can't "ask Joe to leave soon" because someone |
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doesn't like him. In my example, I am the problem, not Joe --- I set it |
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up that way. |
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Regards, |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) |
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