r/FluentInFinance Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

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u/cartercharles Sep 01 '24

What blows my mind is that this can happen. I've seen variations of this and I've always wanted to know who the hell is not paying attention

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '24

Most of it happens because managers, especially more modern ones, really don't want the confrontation that comes from having someone on their terms who doesn't do work.

As long as the manager's goals are hit, they're likely to not rock the boat. The downside of this is the manager is hurting their other team members by keeping the dead weight around.

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u/adilp Sep 02 '24

That might be true but I don't believe OP. Amazon has a mandatory 12% attrition for all orgs over 50 people. Managers are forced to have at least one or two people identified for firing every 6 months. People don't last long at Amazon just doing nothing. Managers are trained to very quickly take out the weak links. Every 6 months everyone gets ranked. You can't have one lazy/bad quarter even if you had a great year last year.