Re: Employee Performance Problems



straydog wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, BMJ wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:27:46 GMT
> > From: BMJ <parametric_equation@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Newsgroups: sci.research.careers
> > Subject: Employee Performance Problems
> >
> >
> > http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050701/CAEXPECT01/TPBusiness/General?pageRequested=all
> >
> > http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z3D252D5B
> >
> > This article hits the nail on the head, but it assumes that the management is
> > impartial and unbiased. If the boss has an axe to grind against someone,
> > whatever that person does will never be considered acceptable. Office
> > politics can be a dirty game and it doesn't matter whether it's in industry
> > or in the academic realm.
> >

The american workplace isn't designed to retain competent manpower at
the expense of incompetent ones -andthat will come back to hant them in
the form of better managed competitors overseas. Ive seen more hands-on
engineers turned managers in India than in the US -and thats a sign of
things to come.

>
> The WSJ had a large series of articles on fired employees (usually at an
> intermediate or low level manager level, but ocassionally rank and file)
> and how they sued the asses of their former employer and often got
> settlements and fees paid, too. The articles went into enough detail that
> you could begin to figure out if you had a chance to bite back if you ever
> got the backstab. But, it was pretty clear from the contexts of the cases
> that the fired or injured employee was treated in a manner that could not
> be justified in a civilized society.
>
Yeah -there are fewer labour laws and other checks & balances in the US
job market.

> However, with the shift towards the right in the tone of litigation and
> judges siding, automatically these days, with owners, managers, rich, or
> the powerfull, you just don't see that kind of justice any more. Even just

Don't think you ever did get that.

> the last couple of days there was some court finding that some journalist
> had to turn over source material on some issue. So, there goes the freedom
> of the press and investigative journalism. Chief editors are going to just
> tell the reporters: we can't afford to fund court cases so just write
> bland claptrap instead.

You must mean the case of exposing Wilson's wife as a CIA agent. Read
newsweek -it says karl rove provided the leak and the jury is
subpeoning info from the journalists who outed her.
Its a case of checks and balances to prevent excesses of a right wing
party.
The media is threatened not by the judiciary but by media barons. They
own the media and decide what info gets to the public -so that the true
picture never makes it to the public. Most of the good things written
about the Iraq war by the US media are baloney which will come back
toundermine their credibility -when the truth comes out.

regards
-kamal

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