You sound as if you're in management. If this is the case then the fact that you have to fire people on a weekly basis shows how truly inept you are at your job sir.
Your main goal as a manager is to build up your team, build upon their strengths, recognize weaknesses and coach them into making corrections in those areas. If you consistently have to fire people (on a weekly basis) then you are a failure as a manager and need to reevaluate your practices as someone in leadership.
Who is even doing the hiring? Why do you keep receiving under qualified personnel who, from the way you make it sound, probably have a history of bad work habits? You literally can call references before a hire is even made.
I wouldn't fire you but I definitely wouldn't have you oversee any personnel if what you say is actually factual.
Yes, OP does sound like an ass but so do you.
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I was wondering the same thing. Who would even want to work for someone that fires people every week? Temp agency maybe?
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Agree mostly, but remember leader and manager are not synonymous and most managers are in fact not leaders at all. In fact less than 1% of people are truly leaders (per statistics in both Gallup and HBR). Also, references are pretty meaningless now (except maybe client references) since most people just have a friend do it for them.
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Manager is a title. The term "leader" is an implication of obligation of status at a given workplace. A manger without "leadership" skills will underperform at a base level and fail to bring out the best in their employees hence promoting low productivity/poor work quality/higher stress levels/etc. As far as references go, you can have a friend try to "do it for you" but any manager worth their job will be able to realize that is the case after spending a few minutes actually following up on those references. Your numbers look great, but real time spent in a workplace dealing with these issues speaks volumes.
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Well that was well put, nice one sir!