You Were Fired for "Underperforming." You Owned 30% of the Company.

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• SG

  @sgt.grinch3299 · 3 days ago

  That must be embarrassing for the HR Manager and his Boss.

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• DB

  @DBA7399 · 1 month ago

  There is no way Greg and the HR woman could be kept on.  They were going to fire the guy for useless performance markers; how many other workers had suffered because of them. They’d have to go and be made an example of.

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• TE

  @terrenord1222 · 1 month ago

  Everyone’s fantasy and nobody’s reality

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• KE

  @keithwolfe1942 · 1 month ago

  Some Supervisors and HR directors are the main problem. Others not so much.

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• CO

  @cousinjeb7116 · 1 month ago

  Engagement benchmarks? Glad I'm retired.

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• DO

  @Donkeyearsa · 1 month ago (edited)

  Dang the company went from being worth $300+ million to only $110 million. That really sucks.<br><br>14% of $303.5 million is $42.5 million.

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• OL

  @OlaBetiku · 2 weeks ago

  Even if they didn&apos;t know he owned a part of the company they knew he had been working there from the start... They were gonna fire a day one employee

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• LE

  @leonramsay21 · 1 month ago

  Workplace politics.

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• RY

  @Ryan.beRich · 1 month ago

  “Performance improvement summary” implies a document of changes that need to be made before termination. It is not something first revealed at termination as implied here. It would have been a great tool to resolve the issues and get his employment back on track. <br><br>It should have included a time period where the employee could point out his efforts in the way the supervisor wanted to see them. <br><br>The employee should have figured out how the supervisor wanted to run the team and adjusted to match that style. Quietly doing the job is not what the supervisor wants. Give the supervisor what he wants. Do your job and let him know. No big deal. <br><br>I was in the same situation a long time ago. I hired a great guy to be the sole IT guy for the company. I told him that when he does great work, no one notices. Servers don’t go down. Systems don’t crash. He needs to tell me about all the heroic efforts he went through to keep the systems working. It is great that he worked until 3:00 in the morning. Let me know about it. He deserves the credit.

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• SE

  @serifini2469 · 1 month ago

  I was sort of in this position but on a much smaller scale. I was part of a management buyout of the company I worked for when the previous owners went bankrupt at which time we numbered about 30 people. I was in a technical engineering role and was happy to leave management to others with more experience and who enjoyed that sort of thing. I remained working as a senior engineer because I enjoyed my work and I like to think I helped the company grow, which it did to about 250 people, most of who had no idea of my history there. I was also earning about three times my salary from other non-related investments so could retire at any time, but was happy doing what I was doing and it took a relocation of the company to larger premises leading to a longer daily commute for me to actually decide it was time to move on.

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• DA

  @danskkr · 1 month ago

  The narrator sounds insane.

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• CH

  @chrisjarvis4449 · 2 weeks ago

  its interesting the amount of multi million dollar co. that had there starts above a dry cleaners

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