Does anyone else here in management miss the good old days when you could fire a worthless employee at the drop of a hat?

A88234P

You must be a very old person with an even older mentality.

StephenWeinstein

If the employee was worthless, you should have fired the employer before the end of the probationary period.

H

The way I see is if the employee is not able to produce or offer anything to the company within the time interval they should have learned the job, they should be let go. If you own a company and you are hiring employees, don't you expect to get something back from them? If I run a business and hire employees then I expect my employees to produce and contribute to the company. They need to make sure they satisfy the customers that customers want to come back. The better customer service, the more business increase thanks to the team work of the staffs and management. Go above expectation and of course they get rewarded with raises and promotions. The problem with doing a poor job is that if customers become dissatisfied then they will take their business elsewhere. Keep in mind that there is always competition. So it's not just the managers but employees need to step up their game. Everyone has to step it up. Sometimes if the employee is so bad that it's dragging the company down, the best thing to do is to let them go.

Pearl

i think they should fire people fast if they need to

A Hunch

It's unfortunate the you work for a company like this. Why don't you escalate the issue through operations. Additionally, tell them to stop using the term "probationary period" which is obsolete and instead call it an "introductory period".