Re: "Sorry you're not the right fit" - After "all is fine" for 4 weeks

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

In the modern professional workplace, people skills are
often an important part of "how well" people do their job,
particularly if that job involves interacting with other
people to obtain information, document reviews, etc.,
and putting in 10-12 hour days while everyone wonders
whether the next product release is going to make or
break a fledgling company.  In a pressure-cooker work
situation, one person who doesn't "fit in" can drag down
the morale of an entire project team.

OTOH, depending on the environment, "not the right fit"
can also be HR-speak for any perceived fault from not
drinking enough of the corporate kool-aid to the CEO's
jealous spouse noticing said CEO looking at you in a
way that causes domestic issues at home. The best way
to take it is that the company is "not the right fit" for you.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:03 PM
Subject: RE: "Sorry you're not the right fit" - After "all is fine" for 
4 weeks


>I must confess, the stories in this thread are making me mad. It just
> seems so unfair that a person can be perfectly competent to do the job
> and yet be fired because people don't like the sound of their voice or
> have some other purely subjective problem with their personality. I 
> wish
> people could be judged solely on how well they do their job.
>
> You may remember that I was canned from my library job, and to be 
> fair,
> I wasn't cut out to be a librarian. But I know part of the decision 
> had
> to do with the fact that I kept to myself a lot and didn't mingle 
> enough
> with my co-workers. At one performance review, I was told that, "You
> need to establish more of a rapport with your co-workers," and when 
> the
> library directory gave me the bad news, he said it was partly because,
> "You don't fit into the system here." So I got canned partly for being
> an introvert.
>
> Well, I guess that's how it is in the real world.
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