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