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Originally Posted by J. Falcon
About 8 years ago I ran a company with about 30 - 40 employees. It was phone sales and worker turnover rate was very high - we'd hire people in groups of 5 - 10. After moving to a new office, we did our first big hire: 14 new sales reps all starting on the same day. Monday morning, their training (which lasted at least a month) was all set up for them to get started as soon as they arrived. Everyone was on time, or early, except for one dude who showed up exactly 15 minutes late. Fuck it, I thought, and told the HR person to not let him in. To this day I still wonder if I was too rash.
Some great responses. But if I want to make a good impression at my new job, I'll try to at least be on time. Then again, I was taught being late is extremely rude.
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You have more experience with hiring and firing large groups of people than most who have posted in this thread. Your job was to bring in a large group of folks and have them perform a function to the best of their ability and help them get better at it. You, as the team leader, had specific needs that you feel were not met. This will vary based on the situation.
Managing yourself is difficult, managing a small team is even more difficult, managing a dozen or more? You start letting one slide for this and one slide for that, you've got a whole team sliding all over the place.
I find that my gut is right more often than not, and when I start second-guessing myself, that's when mistakes happen.
Me? Too many variables to say, but I know one thing, I wouldn't be regretting it years later. :-) Move on.