Business etiquette and integrity Part II

spurster
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:51:17 +0000

Look at it from the employee’s view. I get an offer with 20 pages of fine print and a summary. I accept the offer based on the summary, go through the substantial effort of switching jobs, and now it’s, whoops, the summary is wrong, we really meant the 20 pages of fine print, which of course end up lower than the summary, which was just an “estimate”. Ha ha, fooled you!

What’s fair is to stand by the agreements you make. How else is an employee supposed to operate?

I think you need to compromise with the employee. In some sense, it is unfair to the other workers, who got less benefits. But in another sense, it is fair to them because they’ll know that your word is good. Do you really want an employee who is telling the rest of your group that you’re (or your company) is a no-good liar? And who has the papers to prove it?