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I agree with Craig. I pretty much let bygones by bygones unless the
person really deliberately tried to do me, other co-workers or the
company harm. Thankfully, I've not run into many people like this. In
LinkedIn, you can also "unlink" yourself from someone without them
knowing. (I guess they'd know if they try to visit your linked in page,
but there would be no notification or no other way that they'd know that
you unlinked them from what I understand - but I haven't tested this.)
<snip>However, I have recently gotten requests from several bosses at a
previous job that went downhill fast. They brought in a bunch of people
to do an almost impossible job, then had a mess of management, and began
firing people left and right over the second half of the project to
cover themselves and buying time.
A couple I liked but some others I thought did a really poor job of
supporting the group and then removed people to cover their own
mistakes, often calling them at home to not come in anymore, or meeting
them at the door and walking them back out. No two week notice or even
one day notices.</snip>
In this case, while this wasn't handled well, it doesn't necessarily
sound to me from what was written like it was a personal thing. It
sounds like the bosses were in a chaotic environment that might or might
not have been of their own making - and that this affected the work
environment. Sometimes people just become names on a spreadsheet when
cuts come ... it is about salary vs. the bottom line. Sometimes in
business managers think they can afford to keep people if x happens or
if y happens so they keep people. Then, x or y doesn't happen and they
end up having to cut; sometimes sooner or deeper than expected. So, if
I were in that situation, I'd give the manager the benefit of the doubt
and would accept the linked in request. I wouldn't go crazy and write a
recommendation to say that they were the world's greatest manager or
anything like that. But you never know ... some people are good
workers, but are just in the wrong environment.
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