bye joe

[litch]

This guy from work got fired last friday, for failing to adhere to an improvement plan. I'm sorry to see him go, he was a nice guy, he and his girlfriend were part of the group from work I went to see star wars with on opening night. He's decidedly technically competent but his work skills (getting to work on time, document everything, etc) just didn't cut it. I look at that with a great deal of trepidation, that's how I tend to fuck up at work. I'm not having a problem, but I like what I am doing and the people I work with and my life is pretty good right now. I feel like I could fall down that oiled cascade of broken glass anytime, it's just one loss of balance away.

This was from a work lunch, the girl he's talking to is Carrie, she's our HR person here in Austin. They both used to work at High-End systems at the same time and had a number of common friends.

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[xeyeofhorusx.livejournal.com]

Honestly I don't think it was just that. I think he didn't fit into the culture very well. Postini is in a very competitive market and we have a lot of eyes on us all the time. This means we must be impeccable according to conservative standards if we want to survive and meet our company objectives - we don't have the cultural freedom that comes from an environment like, say, IBM. Being in sales I constantly struggle with that - I'm far weirder than anyone in the department, and I'm only still around because I've been able to succeed pretty wildly on occasion. I get the feeling he's going to be much happier wherever he lands.