Kana
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I'm curious that you took no responsibility for having hired them in the first place.
Because that's part of being a good manager, figuring who will be a good fit to begin with.
Being good at the job is one thing, management skills are another.
And you speak only of punishment/consequences. Not about your skill at turning them around so they became productive team members. Inspiring them and giving positive reinforcement.
1-Now that's a nice assumption. Point of fact, I've looked guys in the eye, said, "I thought you might be a good fit here and that we would be good for you but I was mistaken and this isn't working out. For the good of the organization, it's time you moved on."
2-I'm talking consequences because, you know, this is a thread that's been pretty much bending that way for a while.
3-You jest? You mean finding good fits is important? Hmmm, I never learned that in my MBA or in my years in the corporate world. And here I was thinking you just hired anyone and it could be made to work. I don't know where you are coming from here or where you developed the implication that I lack management skills, but you would be dead wrong there. I've worked for fortune 500 companies, the state legislature, universities, done efficiency consulting for major companies, been a life coach, done social work and self improvement mentoring, put on skill seminars and been asked to give training speeches in front of thousands. But if ya really wanna know bout my management skills, don't ask me, why would you trust my opinion-ask the lilone....she's hung out for six years for some reason or the other...
I don't know what world you live in but there ain't a company out there that doesn't have some sort of turnover ratio. Sometimes circumstances change and folks are no longer happy, they get denied a promotion, Bob gets the corner office, the company got bought out and they ain't happy bout the new bosses, the R&D budget got cut, they don't get the right benefits, John their good friend, drinking partner and boss retired and they haven't been willing to work with anyone since, they develop a coke habit, they dated Barb in accounting and now that they broke up he's been a creepy stalker-WTF knows-people do weird shit.
Then, sometimes, especially in management type roles, in many industries, service industries in particular, there's a pretty standard turnover rate simply because new blood is needed, places get complacent(Think chain restaurants for example. Like baseball managers, those guys are hired to be fired). It's just the nature of the beast.
Sometimes, do what you may you gotta let someone go.
What you are doing is assuming that it's like-Bang, out of nowhere you are fired.
Things don't work like that(Well, at least not in smart organizations). Companies spend lots of money in the hiring process, lots more in training. It's an idiotic organization that just flows through employees. That's essentially burning money, which is flat out dumb. With any worthwhile employee there are usually several intermediary disciplinary steps (Often ones that the company is legally bound by it's own internal HR policies to follow-I mean fuck, look at Penn State-they can't fire their sleazebag lying ex president right now and may have difficulty doing so until he gets charged with perjury) and those are just the official ones. Usually there's any number of conversations, maybe a verbal warning or two,a discussion outside of work over coffee.
In BDSM we would call these things consequences
And the reason I bring this up is because it's often assumed or implied that Doms do this to slaves. Just bang, "Oh, you spilled the milk-you're outta here. Pack your shit and be gone in twenty minutes."
Or, even better, some insane act will be demanded, "Cut off both your thumbs before I count to ten or you're no longer my slave."
Things don't work like that...at least not in my house.
I wanna point out two things:
A-Yeah the door is always open, but that swings both ways. She can always look at me any time she wants and say, "You are flipping deluded. I'm outta here." and split
B-And this is the big one-If I was the kind of cat who made irrational ridiculous demands, do you really think she would have trusted me not just with her surrender, but her heart as well? The reason she ceded to me is because she knows, as in knowsknowsknows that she is safe with me, that I wouldn't do something drastic without a good reason and that if it was something serious enough to leave her considering the door as a viable option, she would damn well know it had to be vastly important if I was willing to risk losing her over it.
Purely as a side note, I can't tell ya how ironic I find it that the practicing sadists here often seem to have more faith in female subs/slaves that many of the female sub/slaves here do.
I think it's very telling.
What it tells, I dunno.
But it says something...
< Message edited by Kana -- 7/25/2012 4:17:17 AM >
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