Timeline for Is it a good idea to push new employees to prove themselves in their first 90 days? [closed]
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| Dec 12, 2018 at 8:49 | comment | added | Hans1984 | What a terrible idea of your boss. It's the best way to scare people away. | |
| Dec 12, 2018 at 8:00 | comment | added | P.Manthe | As a project leader myself, extra hours show that I made a mistake in 90% cases... And why not showing to your new employees that you are a good company for them, and that project leaders, managers and all the "decision staff" are so efficient that extra hours are not even needed? | |
| S Dec 11, 2018 at 23:40 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Dec 11, 2018 at 23:37 | history | closed |
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| Dec 11, 2018 at 21:28 | comment | added | Kevin | Do you tell the employees (preferably before they accept your offer) that you're going to try and burn them out for the first three months and it'll lighten up if they survive? I for one would assume the "ambitious" deadlines would continue and start looking for another job immediately as that's not what I signed up for. | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 20:25 | comment | added | max630 | Which country are you in? Do you have at-will employment there? | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 19:51 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 18:57 | comment | added | iammax | >He thinks a new hire should really want to prove themselves, even if that means working extra hours. Are they being paid for these extra hours? I bet they are not. This is pure exploitation and it is unethical. You're not going to get good employees that way, becuase the good ones will work hard and burn out. The ones who remain after this weeding out process will be the people who cut corners | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 16:36 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | Mandatory Dilbert Strip - I have a law that says "The absurdity of an office situation is directly proportional to how much it resembles a Dilbert or XKCD strip." .... Actually, there is a whole lot of them. | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 16:05 | answer | added | corsiKa | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 15:57 | comment | added | CFL_Jeff | @Cain Software development industry | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 15:56 | comment | added | the_lotus | @CFL_Jeff this might be a possibility | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 15:54 | comment | added | CFL_Jeff | @the_lotus Interesting you say that. My bosses are former hospital administrators. Do you think this policy is a carry-over from their hospital days? | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 15:50 | answer | added | MonkeyZeus | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 15:48 | comment | added | Cain | What industry is this? | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 15:48 | answer | added | Kallmanation | timeline score: 14 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 15:46 | comment | added | the_lotus | Without giving my opinion on this. I've heard this is how hospitals do things, is this similar? | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 15:43 | answer | added | Michael | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 15:29 | comment | added | Drag and Drop | Many answer made the assumption that the extra hour are not paid, are they ? | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 15:13 | answer | added | user53651 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 15:05 | comment | added | Drag and Drop | Are these "ambitious milestones" define as such only because it's new hire? Would someone working there for 1 year consider them ambitious? | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 14:55 | answer | added | Myles | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 14:50 | comment | added | J.Doe | I would avoid this as a company, because you can't rely on that workload being finished. if you burn this new hire out 45 days into the job and they quit with no notice, that will all be lost, and you are really trying to make people quit with a strategy like this. | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 14:47 | answer | added | J. Chris Compton | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 14:40 | answer | added | henning no longer feeds AI | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 14:27 | comment | added | James T | I would absolutely quit at the first opportunity if I joined somewhere with this odd philosophy. Perhaps this is what your boss wants, he wants to find the people who are willing to work for free. | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 14:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 11, 2018 at 14:23 | answer | added | Kevin | timeline score: 50 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 14:23 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | If your boss thinks this is such a great idea, why stop at 90 days? You're already getting extra labor from these new employees, just keep squeezing until there's nothing left. | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 14:02 | answer | added | BigMadAndy | timeline score: 89 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 13:55 | answer | added | sf02 | timeline score: 158 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 13:43 | comment | added | Answers_Seeker | The adaptation cost when you arrive on a project/company makes the hiree work more just because he needs to assimilate the tools and the process. Giving him a big workload and,hence delivery commitment (by delivering a lot of work), is risky as you might need to pass after the new hiree to align on the company's policy/processes the thing he delivered. Other than that, him getting more hours of sleep will enhance the information assimilation. | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 13:40 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 24 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 13:39 | answer | added | Roman | timeline score: 35 | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 13:18 | history | asked | CFL_Jeff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |