RE: RE: RE: Exploitation is a two-way street (was a bunch of other thread s)

["GeneK" <gene -at- genek -dot- com>]

These are inevitable tradeoffs that have to made in life,
emphasize career or family, etc.  I never expected anyone
working for me to share their personal issues with everyone,
simply to understand that what they were doing was trading 
off certain career enhancements for their personal needs
and not to be expecting that big bonus for doing less 
than most of their coworkers.  I know people who made a
conscious decision to do that years ago and have never 
expressed any regret about it.  Unfortunately, when the
really bad times hit and hard decisions about layoffs
have to be made, managers don't have the option of taking
their employees' personal situations into consideration,
the decision has to be a strict "value to company" one.
I really hate that part of being a manager, BTW.

Gene Kim-Eng



------- Original Message -------
On
Thu, 1 May 2003 13:25:33 -0500 ?wrote:


   Again, this can be a good and a bad thing. There are SOME people who
just put in the required 40 hours and go home that may have very valid
reasons for doing so. A single parent, for example. Just because a person
works with/for others doesn't mean that those others know enough details
about that persons life to say if they can or can't work over on a routine
basis. Many people don't feel comfortable enough with co-workers to let
them know so much about their personal lives to allow for making such a
decision. And if someone otherwise very worthy of keeping in a position
isn't simply because they haven't worked enough extra time over the
required amount because they very often weren't ABLE to do so because of
outside obligations, then that would not be a GOOD thing, IMHO.


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