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by alexjurkiewicz 1556 days ago
> The article fails to address when the firing is actually wrong and incorrect. > > I work at anduril and I know of a new manager who 6 months into the job fired 2 people and had one person quit because he couldn't handle dealing with him.

You can't tell from "statistical significance" if a firing is good or not. Maybe those three people have needed to be fitted for a while. Maybe, as the article says, it comes down to job-fit and the three employees are great people in the wrong job.

There are bad managers. But you can't identify them solely based on numerical analysis of turnover.

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No exact answers exist but probabilities are very real.

3 people being simultaneously not fit for the job is quite unlikely.

You have a choice here. Either 1 person is unfit for the job or 3 people. 1 person being unfit though not for sure is Far more likely.

By one person I mean the manager is not fit. But in these cases usually the manager side steps the numbers and thinks he's doing the right thing.