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Re:Ask HN: Who is firing? by rootlocus on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @04:33AM (#12853048) 

  > Hiring, at least in theory, pulls in the best.
If you're firing "the worst", that means at some point, you hired them. Not to mention "the best" is a very vague term. How do you quantify quality? What pool of people are you selecting "the best" from? How many of them are "the best"? The first two? The first ten?
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Re:Ask HN: Who is firing? by pvaldes on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:22PM (#12859939)
> If you're firing "the worst", that means at some point, you hired them

... or that working in your company causes a serious damage and suck out all the talent of the people before to let it go totally burnt.

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