>However, Belgian law makes it very difficult to put such a flexible schedule in a contract. So your best bet is to hire people who share your passion, willing to 'volunteer' on such occasions.
Threw up in my mouth a little bit. My 'passion' is making money by providing services you need. You pay me, I do sh*t. That simple. Let's not kid ourselves.
I love the mental gymnastics she goes through to paint herself as having done no wrong in her mind.
To be fair, having grown up in Belgium, they take their red tape and bureaucracy to a whole new level.
I considered moving back there and freelancing after university, but the hoops you have to jump through (and tax you have to pay) scared me off that idea pretty quickly.
Hoops to jump through: set up a business bank account, fill out some forms, about 30 minutes tops. Pay taxes once a year for federal, provincial and city and VAT four times a year through a free online system. Sounds like a lot but it takes hardly any time. As a freelancer you can keep simplified accounts, double bookkeeping is optional. Pay an accountant if that's too much to deal with.
Admittedly it's more of a hassle in Belgium than it is in the UK (they treat sole traders really well) but it's still a walk in the park.
Level of taxation: sure, it's a lot, but always less than what an employee would pay. And you get health insurance and are saving for retirement as a part of that bargain – even as a freelancer!
She lets an employee go because they don't need him, then needs him and complains that he's not readily available.
Humans aren't inanimate objects to be used and discarded and retrieved as your personal needs change, and this CEO is getting some faint glimmers of that if not fully realizing the entire scope of this implication.
It's not a lack of class, it's a lack of intelligence.
Amicable separations aren't quite as rare as unicorns but they make California condors look ordinary. No matter what people claim, it's remarkably uncommon, one party always gets the bad end of the deal. If what I've heard about work in Belgium is true, unless this guy was an elite contractor, short of finding another position there is no way this was going to be amicable.
I was in a similar situation. Due to circumstance, I was the only guy who knew about a particular thing that was fairly critical to the business who could do any work on it.
My old boss gave me a call and said "Hey, Spooky23, we're in a bit of a jam with <system z>, would you be willing to do some consulting for a few weeks?". So I did. Worked about 30-40 hours fixing stuff, and spent a few hours training the guy they hired.
This happens all of the time. Some CEOs/VPs/etc have class. Others don't.
Then how does anybody take her seriously? Is it the lack of women in IT and business that make people more tollerant of such clear shortcommings, like that twitter post and her major snafu in people managment skills this article outlays. Especialy for somebody who proclaims to be some kind of staff recruitment expert.
I fail to see how believing conspiracy theories would interfere with her ability to recruit good people.
While the post was certainly beyond ridiculous, let's not get ahead of ourselves and most definitely don't start any pointless and damaging witchhunt here.
Oh her post reagrding the topic was indicative of her recruitment ability for me. This conspiracy which is clear to most interlectuals would easily be dismissed due to source alone and to panda towards such poor information is to me and many a sign of weakness, again non conducive towards stable manager.
Anybody who is easily lead by such a clear conspiracy is also the type to be in denial of the facts as indicated by this post about not understanding why a sacked employee did not jump thru hoops out of hours later on. We see it, anybody reading it see's it and she did not until after it went viral and enough comments enabled reality to set in that she eventualy realised her mistake and instead of admitting it, she just deleted it and pretended it never happened.
That is the relevance, and indicative that for some this person is not very credible. Employers go thru social media all the time and way it against you, it works both ways.
No witch hunt, rememebr this is instigated by her, everybody is just stating the obvious that she failed too see and then when she did, delete/denaial mode. no witch hunt, just trying to understand the type of person who would make such a post in the first place and if it was out of character or indicative of there mindset.
But any debate can be deemed a witchhunt, just does not distract from the facts. So more a facthunt.
The source is "Daily Mail". Pretty much sums it all: if she believes that conspiracy and its source she could easily believe that her own lack of continuity makes perfect sense.
At this point, conspiracies have just as much evidence as Occam's Razor regarding that plane's disappearance. The theory is pretty well out there, yet still fits what is known and not completely absurd.
What amuses/occupies people outside of work should be largely ignored insofar as it has nothing to do with work. Most people who are interesting/talented hold views others find ... weird.
Threw up in my mouth a little bit. My 'passion' is making money by providing services you need. You pay me, I do sh*t. That simple. Let's not kid ourselves.
I love the mental gymnastics she goes through to paint herself as having done no wrong in her mind.