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Old 01-27-2014, 18:00   #9
Badger52
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2. Don't do employee retention interviews. Wait until a great employee is walking out the door instead and conduct an exit interview to see what you could have done differently so they would not have gone out looking for another job.
My last boss did that; I gave him, with quite a bit of civil candor, the state of his ship. I'm retired & working on some bucket list items - former colleagues at the occasional breakfasts, or who I see when invited to others' retirement luncheons, tell me that nothing has changed. He wasted my time as well as his.

I am happy. He is not, and is obviously un-trainable. I think the phrase is "dismissed experienced counsel" or some such.
Bureaucratic hubris extends wide tentacles.
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