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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by Retric on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:35PM (#16916305)
It's in no way a fear of firing someone that's little easy. The fear is the weeks/months of issues before someone is fired. Further, many people that are part of the process will be working with this person, but not be able to fire them.
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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by falcolas on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:59PM (#16916511)
Is there also a fear of three people doing the work of four for weeks/months since there's the possibility someone could be a bad hire?

Is there not also a fear that an overworked person will become toxic?

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by khedoros1 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:06PM (#16916580)
> Is there also a fear of three people doing the work of four for weeks/months since there's the possibility someone could be a bad hire?

Apparently not at my employer. My team was 10 people 4 years ago, and we're down to 6 now, without much dip in workload. We had someone leave about a month ago, and we're still fighting to get a job rec to replace that person.

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