Re:Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would b...
by thereisnospork on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @01:45PM
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To borrow your words: your core thesis[0] is fundamentally flawed.
There is no requisite for the person hiring to be the one firing for the person hiring to hire a sacrificial lamb.
A rational actor could easily decide 'Hey, I like my team, if I hire this guy/gal who the firing manager definitely won't like[1] He/she'll be fired before anyone on my team.' Morality aside its the same as serving up a secondary 'bad' idea to your boss to give him/her the illusion of choice, and get him/her to go with the plan you want.
[0]>So the core thesis of the article is fundamentally flawed, since the decision maker for hiring is not the same person who decides on firing
There is no requisite for the person hiring to be the one firing for the person hiring to hire a sacrificial lamb.
A rational actor could easily decide 'Hey, I like my team, if I hire this guy/gal who the firing manager definitely won't like[1] He/she'll be fired before anyone on my team.' Morality aside its the same as serving up a secondary 'bad' idea to your boss to give him/her the illusion of choice, and get him/her to go with the plan you want.
[0]>So the core thesis of the article is fundamentally flawed, since the decision maker for hiring is not the same person who decides on firing
[1]For personal or professional reasons.