The idea that you're hiring talented people and just firing them like this is not only obscenely anti-worker, its anti-social and a wonderful example of how we worship the worst people. This is someone with a pedigree, able to land an apple job, pass the interviews, work with a team, has mortgage/family/whatever, etc but he upset a sultan sitting on his silk pillow and now must be thrown out on the streets?
Oh and Apple's entire existance hinges on "HP and IBM were too full of fire-happy, stodgy, powerful men who wouldnt let youngin's with ideas flourish" then now Jobs becomes the HP/IBM he and Woz have decried all their careers? What a great way to send your talent off to competitors, scare your existing staff to never take chances, depressing hiring, build a toxic workplace, and send all these people to a startup where they might eat your lunch.
> Pedigree...streets
If that pedigree is such a high horse.. I'm sure they'd have no problem joining the company next door.
One of many problems with that is the power imbalance. Another is the wealth imbalance. Another is that the “company next door” might not be in a hiring cycle. Another is that your mortgage doesn’t stop and wait for you to get rehired. Another is that people aren’t emotionally indifferent interchangeable cogs and having your life upturned on a whim sucks. Another is that people have lives outside work and have to be able to plan for the future, things like arranged holidays, childcare, that depend on some medium term stability. Another is that people invest time and effort in learning one company’s internal systems and that’s one-sided.
If you can’t come up with half a dozen things wrong with that off the top of your head, you aren’t trying.
Rather, it would be about their values and vision not aligning with those of the company. The job shouldn't have happened to begin with.
Not that I like this kind of company mind you, but I do understand and see the appeal. The comparisons with a cult that are often drawn have a logic to them. But this whole scenario is also an exaggeration. Somewhat.
