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Re:Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people by amznthrowaway5 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:27PM (#23480424)
> That sounds lovely in theory but gets tricky quick with employees who give you estimates that seem too high, and then don't even meet those.

How many managers are competent enough to judge that kind of stuff, and whether or not any excuses produced are reasonable? Even in the technical manager cases I've seen, maybe 1%. The people who constantly bs excuses are often the ones rewarded, as opposed to the people who actually focus on the work and take a little longer to get it done properly.

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Re:Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people by pc86 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:59PM (#23481373)
> Even in the technical manager cases I've seen

You say this as if technical managers are better managers? In my experience the opposite is almost always true.

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Re:Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people by amznthrowaway5 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:42PM (#23559274)
At least for engineering manager positions, there shouldn't be any non-technical people. How are non-technical managers supposed to allocate work and judge how well their technical employees are performing.
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