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by randomdata 1235 days ago
Like with any organization, it is not unusual to hire bad employees. Of course, when you do hire a bad employee you don’t write them a friendly letter and call it a day. You hunt them down and talk to them face to face. Maybe you’ll even have to yell and scream until they cry to get your point across. Hopefully you will choose better next time.

It’s never fun being the boss, but given that you’ve accepted the role you can be a good boss and stand up to your workers, even as much as they try hard to avoid you, or accept your failings and let your organization fall apart. Your choice.
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traceroute66 1235 days ago
> Hopefully you will choose better next time.

Aah yes, another favourite old-chestnut, the old "well, you can vote differently next time".

Trouble is that one falls apart when you are reminded that the UK has FPTP (First Past The Post) and not PR (Proportion Representation).

As a result, most people's votes don't really count for much, and you end up with safe seats and all sorts of other problems.

But it favours the big-two parties and hence, like many other problems with UK politics and parliament, it will (likely) never change.

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randomdata 1235 days ago
FPTP is perfectly fine for electing a representative. I might even argue that it is best electoral system for selecting a representative. It is how most organizations choose between a set of employees and it works well enough.

FPTP absolutely fails hard when parties get thrown into the mix. But that is when you should stop to ask yourself why are you hiring party members in the first place? You want to hire someone who is there to represent you, not some other allegiance. The Westminster system really isn't well suited to having parties in the first place, even if it has grown to accept them.

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