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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
You do work for the government  |
You would be surprised how few of these slackers I come across. I know 1 in 10 is still way, way too high... if this was in a non-unionized shop the lazy SOBs would be out on the street ASAP. The problem is that if you have 1 guy who isn't pulling his weight and have 9 others trying to make up for the slacker, everyone else starts asking why they are bustin' their ass while this guy plays Bejewelled. It just takes one bad apple.
But I do remember once when I was in private industry where this 50 year old guy was subtly coming on to a 22 year old just out of university. The advances were obviously not welcomed and the girl came to me. I was in no position with this company to hire/fire people, but I was high enough up to make recommendations. First, the guy wasn't doing the work assigned to him, but rather was hanging around the girls office trying to "help" her with her work. Secondly, after repeated warnings, he was still harassing her. Lastly, the girls productivity was diminished because of this letch bothering her all the time. So I went to management and said that I had never seen a better case of a guy deserving to be fired. Management told me that they needed this guy. To maintain their contract with the client they needed to ensure that my team had at least 35 years of combined experience in this particular piece of software that we were using; without his 7 years we'd be down to 28. Management found a novel solution. They fired the girl for diminished productivity, lost her 0 years of experience and kept the guy with 7 years.
It was sh*t like that that made me run back to working for the government. Come to think of it, that's probably the ONLY thing that would get you fired in the government. But I would prefer to deal with the 1 in 10 slackers rather than seeing good people fired for no good reason.