> Sounds like it is a fearful place to work and puts all ownership on the employee and nothing on the person doing the fire with no checks or balances. Just a clear cut you disappoint me and I will fire you quickly and even pay you off instead of you suing me.
If you were paying me hundreds of thousands—or more—of dollars a year, then that's kinda how it works: I execute well, or you sever the relationship.
> Professionals (I am assuming this is a professional position and not some low hourly wage job) normally don't get fired for them not being smart enough or the ability to improve.
I don't understand this at all. Why would an insufficiently-smart professional's employer keep him around—as window dressing? If one's not smart enough for the position, and doesn't have the ability to improve, then who would continue to employ one.
Its an underemployment issue. To get this CRUD web app position you need to be a top 1% rock star having passed compiler theory, database design, automata theory, linear algebra and diff eqs at an ivy league or HR won't even let your resume thru to the 8 hour whiteboard interview. The tiny microscopic subset of the population who get past that, are profoundly underemployed and will not have much of an issue with the raw brain horsepower requirement.
Its like demanding PE licensed PHD civil engineers, and actually getting them, to work as landscaping manual laborers, and then being worried they might not be smart enough to start the lawnmower. Its just not going to be an issue (edited: "in tech" "on coasts").
I believe 99% of the time people are fired for things other than the tasks of performing their duties mentally and physically. Usually it happens to be the other non-job description items that get people fired and they happen to make an error that any other person wouldn't get fired for.
I call it my "Good Will Dollar Theory." You get to save "Good Will Dollars" when you do good things for others and the company. You lose "Good Will Dollars" when you have a lapse in judgment or execution. When you are out of "Good Will Dollars" you get fired. Everyone has starts with a different amount of "Good Will Dollars" and they are often unfairly distributed to people that sometimes don't even deserve them.
If you were paying me hundreds of thousands—or more—of dollars a year, then that's kinda how it works: I execute well, or you sever the relationship.
> Professionals (I am assuming this is a professional position and not some low hourly wage job) normally don't get fired for them not being smart enough or the ability to improve.
I don't understand this at all. Why would an insufficiently-smart professional's employer keep him around—as window dressing? If one's not smart enough for the position, and doesn't have the ability to improve, then who would continue to employ one.