We see the monthly who’s hiring thread, but who are you about to fire? And if not you directly who do you think is about to be fired? Let’s keep names out of this but I’d love to hear all of your rants.
I find it strange and tacky that someone would post something like this. It feels like something that's fun in high school until you grow up and realize that insulting people doesn't make you look any better or smarter -- it makes you look worse.
While it does suck to work with someone who needs to be fired, losing a job can be financially and emotionally devastating. It can tear families apart and lead to suicide.
You are assuming that OP and others are asking this for "fun". I think most managers would agree that firing people is the worst part of the job. Threads like these can serve as valuable places to share hiring/firing experiences and lessons-learned to prevent future firings.
in others. Many people, at least in my experience, myself included, have great difficulties seeing it in themselves. Reading about why you'd fire somebody (that I can identify with because of a few lines of context) can lead to questioning my behavior and/or attitude.
I don't think incompetence is rant-worthy, really. "This programmer I hired can't program, so I fired him", that's not news. "This programmer I hired can program but he doesn't share his knowledge, so he's becoming a bottleneck and single point of failure, and I cannot afford to have that, so I'm going to fire him if he doesn't change" is something else.
I think if I hire someone and I told them something wrong and they know that it is wrong but did it anyway without even questioning it (ask a question is good, so that you can learn; maybe there is a good reason why it is done that way, but maybe not), then I will fire them please.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 34.7 ms ] threadWhile it does suck to work with someone who needs to be fired, losing a job can be financially and emotionally devastating. It can tear families apart and lead to suicide.
Why dance on the grave, even if it's anonymous?
> Let’s keep names out of this but I’d love to hear all of your rants.
My distaste is that the responses would just be punching down.
I've never seen (and struggle to imagine) the value in hearing stories about incompetence. Most people have little trouble recognizing it
in others. Many people, at least in my experience, myself included, have great difficulties seeing it in themselves. Reading about why you'd fire somebody (that I can identify with because of a few lines of context) can lead to questioning my behavior and/or attitude.
I don't think incompetence is rant-worthy, really. "This programmer I hired can't program, so I fired him", that's not news. "This programmer I hired can program but he doesn't share his knowledge, so he's becoming a bottleneck and single point of failure, and I cannot afford to have that, so I'm going to fire him if he doesn't change" is something else.