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Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 00:35 +0000, George Prowse wrote: |
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>> Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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>>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:30:32 -0500 |
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>>> Steev Klimaszewski <steev@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>>> <snip> |
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>>>>>> Personally I understand why flameeyes took that to bugzilla; how else |
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>>>>>> could he say he'd gone thru the appropriate channels? Devrel (a |
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>>>>>> group, not an individual) weren't set up to respond quickly as others |
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>>>>>> have informed us all. |
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>>>>> Case in point: you need to distinguish between flameeyes leaving (again) |
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>>>>> as a publicity stunt because his attempt to blackmail devrel failed and |
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>>>>> flameeyes' stated reason for leaving... |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> <snip> |
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>>>> It was an ultimatum. He goes or I go, it was not blackmail. FFS, can |
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>>>> we please stop calling it blackmail? |
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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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>> 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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> 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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Having spent 5 years as a manager of a Health club and having a |
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qualification in Sport and Recreational Management means I know what I |
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am talking about. It is far easier and better to reprimand one of the |
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people when the other is no longer there, it stops either of them |
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thinking that "they won". Both lose - one leaves by his own accord and |
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the other is reprimanded so they are both equal and that stops either of |
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them thinking that they have been treated differently which is key to a |
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situation like this. |
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