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HarshReal — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:26:32 +0000

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By: Insider

Insider — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:05:16 +0000

MySpace data warehouse manager has laid off her employees every time there is a company wide performance wise layoff.

The question would be, why her employees are always not performing well…there is probably something wrong with the head: this manager.

“Good Leader/manager always motivates employees and takes responsibilities for their failures” –That is exactly the definition of leader but not manager; MySpace’s current data warehouse manager only cares about what she can get from her employees rather than develop the best out of the team.

Should the exectuives realize such individual management issues, they could do much better with or without laying off employees…

By: Insider

Insider — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:55:48 +0000

“I’ve also had many uninspired, not engaged and unmotivated employees that are a result of working for a few years under a poor manager”
–Agreed! An underperforming employee could be the result of an underperforming manager.
Even more ridiculous, myspace data warehouse manager doesn’t allow some of her employees to perform! Simply because the employees might just not be her type or make her laugh.
She’d watch closely to make sure these employees don’t get star projects and tried to string them along in low profile, trivial tasks. Completely ignoring the benefits of the company by wasting company money and resource for her personal enjoyment.
Hope the myspace executives will find it out soon…that to improve the company don’t just believe the performance reviews as they could be false reviews made by the managers. When a manager is underperforming, it will be the whole team not performing at its best (and don’t just look at what they’ve done; pay attention that they could have done a lot more) and laying off individual employees won’t have the quadruple effect as laying off a bad manager…

By: Insider

Insider — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:39:18 +0000

The thing is how do you know those who were let go were really underperformers. What if the manager is really the underperformer instead.

A current employee told me their myspace data warehouse manager is not allowing some of her employees to work on many tasks (therefore they are not performing, you see) because she likes fun employees and those who can make her laugh…

Very ridiculous how this myspace DW manager is undermining the company and victimize the employees…

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By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:40:09 +0000

Looks like he hit a nerve.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:26:16 +0000

Calling everything you disagree with socialist is an easy out for the feeble minded.

One might argue that taking care of your employees is good business and leads to higher productivity and higher profits.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:13:15 +0000

Sounds like a Trump-ism: Hire slowly, fire quickly.

By: Erica

Erica — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:27:58 +0000

Now these people are free to work for companies that have revenue-producing business models.

By: Engago Team

Engago Team — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:09:02 +0000

Instead of laying off 30%, why not cut the wages of the CEO, CFO, CTO, VP Sales?

By: Web2.0FD_Company

Web2.0FD_Company — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:21:44 +0000

I heard someone who wasn’t fired from one of these companies, better to cut too deep (fire too many), and hire as needed than not fire enough and go out of business…

By: Web2.0FD_Company

Web2.0FD_Company — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:16:34 +0000

What if the CEO is the deadbeat?

By: Web2.0FD_Company

Web2.0FD_Company — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:16:00 +0000

But, it has been my experience that upper management rarely want to admit they made a bad decision, and leaves people in positions too long in order to protect their decsions… If someone hires a bad employee, it reflects bad on the person who hired them, and they may not like that negative attention… just a thought…

By: Web2.0FD_Company

Web2.0FD_Company — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:12:06 +0000

It was true in my experince that people work “just hard enough not to get fired.” So raising the bar for keeping your job my firing the poor performers makes the whole company preform better. Often times, sections of a company are loyal to one Executive or you may have factions in the company that disagree. Using the downturn to redirect the path of a company is not a bad thing at all. Personally, I think that a few people in the Valley, are over paid, under delivering, entitled and frankly, need to be fired. The are CEO’s out there that may have come in after the company was founded. I am behind any CEO that uses this chance to right the ship, steady the curse and make some changes. Fire people, become more lean, and mean, the valley exists between feast and famine, during the famine the strong survive and the weak get laid off. Start running better business’ too much depends on imagination, as yoda says, Trying is lying, DO or do not!

By: JimSchwin

JimSchwin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:52:20 +0000

Agreed. Hiring needs to be done very carefully. As they say, almost every firing decision is the result of a bad hiring decision. And, second rate managers, hire third rate subordinates.

By: JimSchwin

JimSchwin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:49:27 +0000

I did. I hear they’re laying off 33.3333333% of the workforce.

Not 100% of course, just 1/3 are deadbeats.