In another thread, we tried to assess the president's job so far, based on if he was hired as an employee for my firm, or your business, or as anyone's employee. Picture this: I am told that a person I am interviewing is someone "who gets things done". I am told by the person he is being referred by that "If I hire a person , it's not because he speaks well or seems so nice but does a so-so job. I want to hire some one the expands my business so I can hire more people so they can make the company more money so I can hire more people to expand my business"
I thought this concept needed to be in it's own topic. "If Trump was YOUR direct employee in YOUR own business, would you keep him on?"
I am now into my 18th month of this guy on the job in my firm, and I am asking myself "was he a good hire, or not?"
What has this guy accomplished for my company? He came aboard with a lot of ideas (A reference to his "first 100 days promises" can be found here, as a reference just to the promises themselves, we can leave the editorial comments aside: https://www.npr.org/2017/04/24/520159167/trumps-100-day-action-plan-annotated) I see him taking credit for stuff that the last employee in his slot did during his tenure (jobs growth, recovering economy). Also, I see that the stuff he promised to take action on not being worked, yet my new employee tells me that the meters I was previously using are all "fake", and that I should believe HIM, not all of them, because he is doing a GREAT job. I worry about the new employee being unstable, saying the meters are all "out to get him". It is almost like that old Groucho Marx line "Who are you going to believe, ME, or your lying eyes?" My employee is blaming things like his tardiness and absenteeism on "the clocks are wrong" and "that calendar is incorrect".
Whenever I try to critique the employee, as a way of fostering constant improvement, he uses excuses for not getting a task done like "the last guy who had the job sucked", or "the other person who you were interviewing for this job is crooked". When I reply "yes, and the last person is gone, and we did not hire that other person, so blaming them is not important, and I need you to do YOUR job and stop talking about them", the employee can't drop the useless excuses, and takes to social media to ridicule me in front of whoever sees it, embarrassing me and degrading the image of my company.
My company has paid for extensive marketing research that business decisions are being based on, and this information is "sensitive business intelligence" that I don't want my competitors to see. I now have proof that this new employee is sharing it with my competitors, without my or my board of directors approval.
My new employee is ticking off some of my best customers, loyal buyers who have kept my company in business all these years, people who always pay on time and can be counted on in time of disaster. Good customers are tough to get, and if my new employee caused them to not trust my product anymore, is that helping or hurting my business?
My new employee then stirs up all this competition with a little mom-and-pop store down the street, one that is due to go out of business on its own soon. He then goes down, makes a big deal about meeting with them and says they have agreed to no longer compete with my company. The little company now tells everyone that in the meeting they made my company make consessions, and that the they told my lawyers and so forth to go blow smoke. The attention my employee gave the old mom-and-pop has breathed new life into their firm. Did my employee screw up? His actions had just the opposite effect he claimed he would, but he denies it.
Inside my company, my new employee promises he is going to greatly reduce the price for lunch in the cafeteria, and he is going to build a huge fitness center in the parking lot. My company can't afford to subsidize the cafeteria any more than we already are, and I have no money to build a health club. To do these things, I would have to borrow more money from the bank, and I have already enough outstanding loans as it is. He says I should get the other business on the block to pay for our health club, and he will tell that CEO to do so. The other CEO LAUGHS at him. But, my new employee has duped a small portion (@30%) of my other employees into thinking he is some kind of magician, and that he can get the health center built without my company having to do layoffs to pay for it. They are good employees, but clueless, and every company meeting devolves into shouting matches regarding the health center. The banks who hold my loans are seeing this non-attention to business, and I am wondering if they might call in the notes, taking possession of my company, effectively shuttering my business.
I had to warn my new employee that we are due to replace some members of the Board of Directors in November, and that they might not appreciate his lack of productive activity, and his rule-breaking. Instead of taking this advice as a warning, he warned ME that if I try anything to fire him, he will whip his friends up to riot.
Like I say, this is YOUR company, and you have to ask yourself: "Is this a good employee for MY company?"
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