“An interesting effect of the changing business landscape has been a change in the attitude toward departed employees. In the past, many companies treated those who’d left (whether voluntarily or involuntarily) as pariahs, traitors, or losers. Today, they’re generally considered a pool of potentially desirable rehires. “
Of, course, this assumes that bridges were not napalmed on the way out the door!
One, as a departing employee, that’s never a professional way to act, and not how you want to be remembered. You never know when and where you’ll run into these people again. Two, as a manager if you mistreat someone who has resigned, they aren’t coming back. I’ve seen far too many managers take it personally when someone leaves for what is clearly a better opportunity, and ruin any chance of that good employee coming back when things change.
And things always change…
Don’t be that employee, or that manager. Just accept that career transitions happen all the time, and move on.
Yes, even if you hate you current job and would never go back to work at that place in a million years. If the workplace is that bad, you won’t be the only one leaving, and you may find yourself working with some of the same people you left behind there. Is that how you want them to remember you?
We’re all grown ups here. Or at least we are supposed to be.
It hasn’t completely disappeared from the AccessData website, but I can’t help but wonder if they are giving up on Summation as a competitor to Relativity at this point. Anyone hear anything official or otherwise from AD? “The integration involves a new direct export option. AccessData users can manage collection, search, preservation, legal hold and…
I’ve used the image of the Jury Room in Columbus, Ohio in presentations about social media for years. The point I made usually went something along these lines: This is a pub that sits across the street from the courthouse in Columbus. It’s been there since 1831. Once upon a time, if you wanted to…
Alex sees the writing on the wall; the idea that anyone can retire at 65 in the near future is a joke. That future existed when pensions were common; homeownership early in adulthood was achievable, and you could work for the same company doing very similar work for over 40 years.Â
We don’t have any of that now. What we do have is a system that was designed for that, though, and a system that refuses to change with the times.Â
“These are the tools necessary to do real censorship of real and important ideas. Whether Facebook intends to use them that way initially or not, and I’m sure it doesn’t, the simple fact is that there’s no other way a trend toward censorship could possibly start, than this. Simply by setting a precedent that this…
It doesn’t matter what Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc, say about what their goals are, they are, and have always been, about getting us to stay on the site and see advertising. He explained that when Facebook was being developed the objective was: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as…
So, if you are one of those recent college grads looking for work, I’m going to suggest you work every angle you can find, whether it be with virtual alumni groups or other connections through your educational institution, getting involved in LinkedIn groups or other professional online meeting places, or even, gasp, your parents and their friends. You’re going to need connections to people outside of your peer group to get where you want to go.Â
And, for the rest of us, where was the last time you had a conversation with someone who fits the description above? Don’t you think it’s time to start leading and raising up the next generation of contributors to your field? What can you do to assist with these shrinking networks for the people who need them the most?Â
