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[I guess with all the discussion of employment rates and jobs and the volatility of the stock market and the looming presidential primary season, I Will be focusing on jobs and employment over the next few weeks. The theme-- it is crazy out there!]
It is kind of amazing what spectators we are.
We sit on the sidelines and watch million dollar athletes fail in baseball over and over again. We scream at the flat screen in hi-definition.
In the “off season,” we are now into the analysis of business decisions and management techniques of the front office.
Did Francona burn out/lose control.
Was Theo focused? What about some of those high-priced free agents that went bust!
And then John Henry, the Red Sox owner drives into a radio station and demands to be heard to address the inaccurate comments of people who talk on the radio for a living.
How passive have we become! Or is this our idle gossip, our recreational pursuit when not at work. A lifestyle choice while your business suffers the same issues on a much smaller scale.
Maybe it makes us feel better about our jobs and businesses to see that everyone is screwed up. In light of the exit of Theo Epstein and now the GM meetings coming up it still has left an imprint on the psyche of the community especially as Bill Belichek opens up the revolving doors in his defensive secondary and line with weekly hirings and firings.
In the end you and your company is as good as the people you employ. And is it pretty easy to say that things are tough but at a recent SBANE meeting I was encouraged by the number of people who place people in jobs for a living and the employer demand for good people. You can’t find them in some sectors and in most you need to train.
So what are you hiring and why is a strategic decision but how and how you let them go is a legal decision that needs some analysis.