It is hard. The problem is that it's also hard to back out of a bad hire, so the cost of making a mistake is tremendously high.
I'm a very "right to work" (bullshit term I know) oriented person, in that I think neither companies nor their employees should be obligated to each other at all. Firing/quitting should be frictionless and easy. Instead, firing is wraught with legal problems such that you can't even fire an employee unless you can monetarily justify the cost of a lawsuit against their impact of being a negative influence, or they're part of some indiscriminate layoff procedure.
If I'm quitting or changing jobs, I'm harangued about it left and right by managers as to why or how this could happen.
Let's not pretend we owe each other anything and just move on like any other business transaction.
I'm a very "right to work" (bullshit term I know) oriented person, in that I think neither companies nor their employees should be obligated to each other at all. Firing/quitting should be frictionless and easy. Instead, firing is wraught with legal problems such that you can't even fire an employee unless you can monetarily justify the cost of a lawsuit against their impact of being a negative influence, or they're part of some indiscriminate layoff procedure.
If I'm quitting or changing jobs, I'm harangued about it left and right by managers as to why or how this could happen.
Let's not pretend we owe each other anything and just move on like any other business transaction.