CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired

Re:CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired by megablast on Thursday April 24, 2014 @07:07AM (#7639391)

Ok, but to be fair, a CEO can't really help unless they have technical skills. You don't want people to suffer needlessly.

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Re:CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired by qwerta on Thursday April 24, 2014 @07:11AM (#7639415)

What if technician needs CEO to make quick management decision?

It cuts both ways, several times I worked over weekend, just to see deployment postponed by couple of days for some paper work.

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Re:CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired by rguzman on Thursday April 24, 2014 @07:34AM (#7639523)

If I'm the CEO and I'm going to ask some people to work 80 hour weeks for a few days/weeks/months, I'd be around and find something productive to do just to show solidarity.

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Re:CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired by frak_your_couch on Thursday April 24, 2014 @08:31AM (#7639804)

I've been the engineer in that scenario a number of times in my life. Almost every time there were management people who stayed who just couldn't contribute. Honestly, I didn't particularly need them to suffer. I'd rather they go home, recognize the situation and reflect on whether something should change if this is a semi-regular situation..and then act. That action is within their capacity and it would have been impactful to me.

As it was, they just didn't act, treated the suffering as a badge and pretended they were in the foxhole with us. If they could handle it, why couldn't we? Why were we bitching so much? They were right there next to us! Needless to say, I don't work in those kinds of places anymore.

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Re:CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired by rguzman on Thursday April 24, 2014 @08:43AM (#7639863)

It is not about just suffering for the badge of it. I guarantee you that there is actually something productive and useful to do. At the very least, as you say, you can reflect on the current situation and write-up the plan to avoid it in the future.

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Re:CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired by nolok on Thursday April 24, 2014 @09:45AM (#7640202)

The only time I pulled a free week end at a company I worked for out of niceness, my boss was sitting in our office evidently having nothing to do beside support me and bring me a coffee every couple of hours.

At the time I thought that's not needed go home, but with retrospect I respect him a lot more for that.

That might sound dumb, but that's one of those things that stick with you when evaluating how you are treated by someone

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Re:CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired by robinlondon on Thursday April 24, 2014 @10:58AM (#7640676)

I think it really depends on the boss. An less competent boss is not welcome when you have work to do.

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Re:CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired by matthewmacleod on Thursday April 24, 2014 @08:06AM (#7639670)

Ah, absolutely. Even if that's making coffee, ordering food, or doing the mindless repetitive tasks.

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Re:CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired by kjs3 on Thursday April 24, 2014 @07:44AM (#7639579)

Yup. If you're asking your team to dive on a grenade, the least you can do is make sure they're stocked with refreshments and feeling like you have some skin in the game.

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Re:CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired by greenyoda on Thursday April 24, 2014 @07:03PM (#7643659)

"a CEO can't really help unless they have technical skills"

Sure they can. They can fetch pizza and drinks, they can test the product from an end-user perspective, etc., etc.

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