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That's what a bad manager would do.

The employee made a mistake and you just paid for them to learn about it. Why would you fire someone you just educated?


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It’s not a matter of good or bad, but a choice among alternatives?

Nobody gets fired: learning opportunity for next time, but little direct incentive to improve.

Fire someone: accountability theater (who is really responsible), loss of knowledge.

AFAIK, blameless postmortems and a focus on mechanisms to prevent repeats seems like the best we’ve come up with?


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