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Re:On loyalty to Your Employer by fwip on Thursday April 24, 2025 @12:19PM (#43784509)
The small and successful company (~100 people) my brother-in-law works at is currently self-destructing, specifically because the CEO is that exact kind of family-loyalty "father figure" wannabe.
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Re:On loyalty to Your Employer by lurk2 on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:40PM (#43785376)
Is it failing because he is being taken advantage of or is it failing because he is trying to take advantage of others?
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Re:On loyalty to Your Employer by fwip on Thursday April 24, 2025 @11:22PM (#43789811)
The latter - he valued loyalty over competency (ending up surrounding himself with yes men), and demanded too much of the competent folk until they burnt out and left.
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