1) I have a lot of sympathy for gov’t employees: I, too, have not checked my email for the past few (hundred) days
And I can confirm that being unemployed is a lot less relaxing than it looks
And I can confirm that being unemployed is a lot less relaxing than it looks
2) Firing people is one of the hardest things to do in the world. It sucks for everyone involved.
My experience:
a) it is usually not the employee’s fault that they got fired
b) it is usually correct to let them go anyway
My experience:
a) it is usually not the employee’s fault that they got fired
b) it is usually correct to let them go anyway
3) More often, the problem is that the company just doesn’t have the right job for them.
4) I’d tell this to everyone we let go: that it was as much our fault for not having the right role for them, or the right person to manage them, or the right work environment for them.
5) Maybe we just didn’t really have anyone free to manage them right then. Maybe they worked best remotely, but our company communicated in-person. Maybe they wanted to work on a particular project, and it just wasn’t what the company needed.
6) Or maybe the department they worked for just had problems.
7) This happens, now and then. We saw it at competitors that hired 30,000 too many employees and then had no idea what to do with them—so entire teams just sat around doing nothing all day.
8) And we saw it internally, when a manager would get busy or distracted, and half of a department would lose its bearing at the same time.
9) It isn’t the employee’s fault, when that happens. It isn’t their fault if their employer doesn’t really know what to do with them, or doesn’t really have anyone to effectively manage them. It isn’t their fault if internal politics lead their department to lose its way.
10) But there’s no point in keeping them around, doing nothing.
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