Am I handling correctly?
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One of the most important things for managers... throw your direct reports under the bus! You can lie and make up some feasible stories. Throw them all under the bus!
Yes, it's the right thing to do.
Also...as needed you can make up information about the direct report to support your position if needed.
Whoosh is the sound of this joke going over 40 fools heads.
I’d give one chance for this. There are times in people’s careers that they jump to the wrong thing - work, people, personal reasons. But if this is a pattern, would stop it. Otherwise, you’re just proliferating the problem.
OP is just making a joke about this thread --> +1p97FwpF
D-mbaazz OP
Awesome
Some managers are afraid that their direct reports will disclose the toxic managers' bad behaviors to other teams. I have seen many toxic managers playing dirty politics at this company.
Everyone needs to scroll to the next post lmao! Well done OP!
If they have been in their role for a year, they can post. I appreciate your POV and when I managed a couple of very awful team members, I had the same temptation. Your actual responsibility is providing a high level of documented coaching with documented as the key word here. Coach and document every damn day until they either improve, get tired of you and quit or get fired because you have enough evidence to legally do so. That worked well for me and helped me get rid of the problems I had. My best case scenario was helping them be better and that did happen a couple of times. But if it just wasn’t going anywhere, “the process was the hammer” and they moved on either by choice or by termination.
Tough crowd
Yes you are helping the new team dodge a bullet
You’re doing fine. Keep up the good work.
Managers are not allowed to prevent his direct reports from applying to other jobs or interfere with their career opportunities. It is a gross violation of the company's policy, and in some cases, it is illegal.
Selfless of you to not let this joker become someone else’s problem.
You are a terrible manager. You are the problem!
People don’t typically leave the job they leave the manager. If you are intentionally holding someone back you need to check yourself. You are the problem.
If via HR process and they’ve had due process and documented performance issues: it depends
Are they just a bad fit? Or a bad employee
you should be fired!
Shouldn’t you be consulting HR, not us?
I giggled since it reminded me of when I started the non-official layoff thread.
Why is it a joke? I've seen it happen first hand. Needs improvement employee basically told to look for other opportunities, got an internal offer, negotiating start date, then offer rescinded after management 'discussions'. Didn't want to pass the problem on to another team. Unbelievable. How does that benefit anyone? Sometimes an employee needs a change of responsibilities for a chance to succeed. Once management has passed judgment on your worth, it's unlikely to get better.
You are terrible guy. He may not be fit for your position but may do great in other team.
This is a joke people
How are you preventing them? Have they not completed a year on your team?