10 Reasons Bad Employees Don't Get Fired

Wednesday April 30, 2008, 11:09 pm
The boss thinks it could be worse.

Thursday May 1, 2008, 3:10 pm
it's all about money: if an employee quits, they have no claim for unemployment compensation...

Thursday May 1, 2008, 3:43 pm
I'm a boss. firing, rehiring and training costs alot of money and time. Even then, you are taking a risk of getting another bad employee. We just weigh out the good over the bad.

Thursday May 1, 2008, 4:20 pm
I was a middle level manager at a major telelcommunications corporation some years back and what Yvette, Paige and even Neelakantha have stated is the truth.

Fired employees get to draw unemployment insurance. It costs more in the long run to fire an employee than it does if they quit.

Training employees is very expensive; this why many companies require prior experiences, college degrees, etc. It lessen the amount of work the employer will have to do to get the employee trained.

Thursday May 1, 2008, 5:55 pm
Many people are worried about losing their jobs due to cut backs:

Joblessness up; 80,000 cut in Mar. Amid recession talk, firms axe most workers in 5 yrs.; unemployment 5.1%.

Thursday May 1, 2008, 6:04 pm
I thought this one was really interesting:

9. The employee has everybody fooled.
In their book "Snakes in Suits," Paul Babiak, Ph.D. and Robert D. Hare, Ph.D., explain that a surprising number of workplaces employ psychopaths. While psychopaths make up 1 percent of the general population, Babiak and Hare found that 3.5 percent of the executives they worked with "fit the profile of the psychopath." Psychopathic employees are pathological liars who get away with doing little or no work. They charm senior management with their "leadership potential," con co-workers into covering for them, and successfully blame others for their mistakes. If you're the only one who sees what they're up to, you're in a tough spot. Sometimes it's the whistle-blower who gets fired, not the snake.

Thursday May 1, 2008, 6:49 pm
How do you tell if a person is a psychopath or not?

I do think there are a lot of people out there with mental illnesses that cannot afford decent mental healthcare. This is from a report on mental health from the surgeon general:

"Across the Nation, certain mental health services are in consistently short supply. These include the following:

* Wraparound services for children with serious emotional problems and multisystemic treatment. Both treatment strategies should actively involve the participation of the multiple health, social service, educational, and other community resources that play a role in ensuring the health and well-being of children and their families;
* Assertive community treatment, an intensive approach to treating people with serious mental illnesses;
* Combined services for people with co-occurring severe mental disorders and substance abuse disorders;
* A range of prevention and early case identification programs; and
* Disease management programs for conditions such as late-life depression in primary care settings.

All too frequently, these effective programs are simply unavailable in communities. It is essential to expand the supply of effective, evidence-based services throughout the Nation."

Thursday May 1, 2008, 6:52 pm
Mental healthcare is just as important as physical healthcare. So why don't more employers care about mental and physical heath of their employees? Healthy employees tend to be more productive, use less sick time and time off from work and are happier.