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AnonTechie writes "In business, intelligence is always a critical element in any employee, because what we do is difficult and complex and the competitors are filled with extremely smart people. However, intelligence isn't the only important quality. Being effective in a company also means working hard, being reliable, and being an excellent member of the team. Companies where people with diverse backgrounds and work styles can succeed have significant advantages in recruiting and retaining top talent over those that don't."
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Deal With the Brilliant Jerks You Work With
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by clone141166 on Friday February 28 2014, @11:29AM
How come every time I read one of these how-to-manage-a-business articles the conclusion that is drawn is always along the line of "if they're a pain, just fire them". After all people are just disposable resources anyway, right?
Maybe it's the managers that really need firing, seeing as they were the ones who decided to hire these "brilliant" but problematic employees in the first place. Surely they must have performed interviews and checked references, and realised to some extent what they were getting themselves into. They were happy enough to exploit the situation while the outcome was positive (having an employee work 72 hours straight should have been a huge red flag for anyone). Even after things turned negative, managerial greed to exploit them again prevented them from taking immediate action, allowing the employee to linger on in the hopes that they could be exploited again, until the situation became so bad that they had no choice but to terminate them.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by nightsky30 on Friday February 28 2014, @01:06PM
I've seen situations where some of the management knew the history of said employee candidate. They voiced their warnings against hiring that person, and another manager hired that jerk anyway. In those cases, both the jerk employee and manager aught to be fired. People with these narcissistic, "I'm brilliant and you're not" attitudes ruin the company by killing current and future business. Nobody wants to work with them. The hiring manager's argument is, "Oh, but he's talented at...!!!". But that does you no good when your other employees leave the company, or your customer refuses to continue with your services due to issues caused by the AssHat.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @02:51PM
> Maybe it's the managers that really need firing
I told my boss that the guy she wanted to hire had brought a gun to the office at his last job. She hired him anyway. Brilliant.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tibman on Friday February 28 2014, @03:05PM
What's the problem with a gun in the office? Unless you are a bank or something it shouldn't be a problem. I'm sure if you ask him not to shoot you when he gets fired that it would put a smile on his face, lol.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Taibhsear on Friday February 28 2014, @03:09PM
Was his last job a security guard?