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Comment by bartread

This is so ethically and morally odious I struggle to find the words to describe it.

I’ve managed people out. I’m sure I’ll have to do it again. I’ve even let people go during probation but, on the rare occasions that’s happened, I’ve seen it as a failure of the hiring process.

People have families, they have mortgages, bills to pay, and a powerful need to eat (Mal, Serenity?). The last thing I want is for someone to give up a stable job that allows them to do that to come and work for me only so I can fire them and leave them up the creek a few weeks or months down the line.

Our employees are after all people, human beings.

As I result I skew picky during the hiring process: if there’s any doubt there’s no doubt kind of thing.

Just awful behaviour here from Amazon.

parent bartread 5 months ago

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