This incidentally raises the question of what would count as ‘firing too early’. Before it’s become clear whether someone is a bad/mediocre employee rather than starting off on the wrong foot or taking time to get used to their role? (Would be clearer in the case of a bad than a mediocre employee, naturally.)
(A friend of mine was quickly fired from a remote working programming job during COVID, I think because he skipped one of their regular online team meetings without good reason. He’d been half-assing it so much in his previous job in a media company (where no-one did any work) I think he assumed he could get away with and talk his way out of anything, so this came as a shock to him. Sounds like they were right to fire him for the sloppy attitude he had acquired, of which this incident was a single but clear signal.)
This incidentally raises the question of what would count as ‘firing too early’. Before it’s become clear whether someone is a bad/mediocre employee rather than starting off on the wrong foot or taking time to get used to their role? (Would be clearer in the case of a bad than a mediocre employee, naturally.)
(A friend of mine was quickly fired from a remote working programming job during COVID, I think because he skipped one of their regular online team meetings without good reason. He’d been half-assing it so much in his previous job in a media company (where no-one did any work) I think he assumed he could get away with and talk his way out of anything, so this came as a shock to him. Sounds like they were right to fire him for the sloppy attitude he had acquired, of which this incident was a single but clear signal.)