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Originally Posted by Table 5
Again how is firing someone via technology that gives you audio AND video worse than firing them over something that only gives you audio? If anything, Skype is much more personal and accountable. And no, flying isn't the answer. Wasting thousands of dollars and half a week to just talk to someone in person for 5 minutes is a huge waste of time and resources.
I can tell some of you work in a corporate environment where you probably have to call together a board-meeting just to change the toner....but not everything in the working world has to be so complicated. Something doesn't have to be hard or expensive for it to be professional. The whole point of technology is to make things more efficient. Internet Conferencing is to the Phone, what Email was to the Letter. Or are you guys still corresponding with clients via carrier pigeon?
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Everything you said is completely fair. But it's the way it went down is the problem, not really the technology used, but the way it was used.
Mac T, if Krueger's account is accurate seems to have been far to casual about it making the use of the technology seem like an issue. Make the time to ask Krueger to a business meeting to discuss urgent matters, tell him you want to use Skype, let him get set up somewhere and be prepared.
By the sounds of it, it seems like Mac T almost pinged him out of the blue, asked him to add him on Skype for the first time and fired him with his wife in the room. Seems very bush league.