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0 pointstemp89644y ago0 comments

No. The management team can make honest mistake. After preliminary investigation, they find they are wrong. No need to tell the employee in this regard.

I did not say they should never tell the employee. I think sometimes it's unnecessary.

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lazide4y ago· 2 in thread

Shouldn’t that investigation happen before they are considered a performance problem and put on the list?

Giving the employee a chance to rebut any performance problem assumptions would be an important part of this, and would also require they know.

temp8964OP4y ago

Yes. At some point the employee should know. But there is a process, and I don't think they should inform the employee right from the start.

lazide4y ago

How much experience do you have managing people?

In my 15+ years doing so, I’ve never heard or seen a situation in a reasonable organization where someone gets on a list like this (intentionally, as compared to their manager screwing up by not having a conversation with them before it is clearly a huge problem to everyone else) without knowing they are going to get on a list like this if they don’t improve.

I have heard it at many places that are flogging employees or using scare tactics to get every cent worth of value they can put or people before they burn out and get thrown on the rubbish bin.

brlewis4y ago

As the employee in that situation I'd want to be told, so I could improve how I manage others' perception of me.

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