When Convenience Rules Decision-Making

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I hired an employee aka in mid 2007 without consulting my best friend Stephen while he was on business to another country. Few weeks later I hired another friend Wendy. After consulting with my best friends Stephen and Wendy, I realized hiring that guy aka “Dumb Ass” was a mistake as he had made lot of trouble for me. We tried to convince the Dumb Ass to leave the company so we could move on but the guy never took the message. We then created an atmosphere that he could feel that he does not fit in so for him to force out of the situation. That worked out for the Dumb Ass to leave my group, but not the company. After leaving my group the Dumb Ass stayed in another group. We still did not like that Dumb Ass as he did not fit to our company. Since I am a fighter, I decided to step in and convince the management to get rid of him once in for all. We planned and fed wrong information to the department’s governing body and the human resources to force the Dumb Ass out of the company tangling him on false charges. The guy was harassed few times by everybody in the management. Management was careful when they were kicking him out. Management created false documents and retained them in his personnel file to justify the guy’s termination. I cannot believe that this strategy to get rid of a guy that I mistakenly hired was really worked.
Roberta Santos-Constantino
One Team - Global

Roberta J. Santos of NV 1:31PM July 13, 2010

1) Interesting line: "or is inadvertently punished if the job is done well". If you, boss, are inadvertently doing the punishing, then stop it. If someone else is doing it, that's where your negative kick-butt attention needs to go. One of the finest things you can do on the job as supervisor is eliminate the negative morale bombs that fly around doing as much damage as "friendly" fire in a war zone. If you need to eliminate the bombers as well as the bombs, okay, do it.
2) As for decisions, if you're making them in a forced mentality at 5:00 on Friday, you are basically lacking confidence in yourself.

Muser of NM 10:41AM June 19, 2010