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Re:Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec by petervandijck on Thursday November 13, 2014 @08:18AM (#8601324)
It's not a myth. Legal and HR will explain to you how easily the company can get sued in those cases. It can be VERY hard to let go an employee who is member of a minority (I speak of experience).
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Re:Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec by cowsandmilk on Thursday November 13, 2014 @09:39AM (#8601685)
not if you have been properly documenting things for everyone you fire. Amazon fires enough people that they should have procedures in place that make this trivial.
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Re:Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec by petervandijck on Thursday November 13, 2014 @07:13PM (#8605050)
For people not familiar with the way things work in the USA, "properly documenting" here means that you need at least a few months of written warnings, an "improvement plan" that then "failed" and such before you can fire someone who just isn't working out at all.

In other words, it's very hard to fire them.

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Re:Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec by NoMoreNicksLeft on Thursday November 13, 2014 @10:32AM (#8601984)
Who the hell documents anything well? I thought we were all programmers here.

Documentation of anything is the most difficult task, the most disliked task, and the most avoided. That's gotta be true no matter what anyone's job is, programmer or not.

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Re:Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec by g8gggu89 on Friday November 14, 2014 @01:43AM (#8606089)
Managers?
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Re:Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec by deedubaya on Thursday November 13, 2014 @11:13AM (#8602269)
> I thought we were all programmers here.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL. I feel the number of top stories on HN are steadily moving away from programming, and that it is more about Entrepreneurship/VC/Business Management these days.

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