How did it go?

Did you cut some dead weight?

Maybe put some people on double, secret probation?

He prob has a lot of ppl bringin him smokes!!!

Buttercup

HAH!!!

Double secret probation.......thats funny because that is EXACTLY what I was thinking in regard to a couple of guys.

I actually softened a bit.....giving myself another week or two to see how some of the guys respond to some of the things I said/did.

There are a couple guys on double secret probation though.......I'm getting weekly reports from their supers.

...Softened a bit!

They ate you up and spit you out like every other newbee manager! They fart in your general direction!

Yes...perhaps.

A lot of these guys have been on autopilot for years....with NO reasonable support from upper mgmt.

Giving the benefit of the doubt IS a weakness of mine.....I'll have to work on that.

"I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business." ~ Montgomery Burns

"As punishment for your desertion, it is company policy to give you the plague." ~ Montgomery Burns

"I could crush him like an ant. But it would be too easy. No, revenge is a dish best served cold. I'll bide my time until ... Oh, what the hell. I'll just crush him like an ant." ~ Montgomery Burns

"Ah, Monday morning. Time to pay for your two days of debauchery, you hungover drones."

" Smithers, for attempting to kill me, I'm giving you a five percent pay cut!"

"Well, that's odd ... I've just robbed a man of his livelihood, and yet I feel strangely empty. Tell you what, Smithers - have him beaten to a pulp."

..........exxxxxxxcelent.

Now you're prepared to do battle! Crush them like ants.

You guys are alright by me... anyone who quotes The Simpsons has to be okay.

"Lisa, every time I pull a crappy job out of the hat it's practice. *pulls paper from hat* 'wash the dishes'... See? That was practice."

Yeah Andy, I'm a benefit of the Doubt person too. But once they have removed all doubt, it is a personal jihad to get the dead weight out.

Of course HR has to go through endless steps in "the process".

If its been determined they are true dead weight, they should get a choice to leave or take a physical beating.

There are few "win-wins" in the corporate world, but this would be one of them.