> The other is that there was an implicit agreement for such work, but Belgian law made it impossible to explicitly contract for.
Considering Google has a datacentre in Belgian that presumably has 24/7 availability, I find this hard to believe. I presume Belgian has security guards, nightfill and a fire brigade also.
> What "find an employee with passion" really means is "find an employee who's attitude fits better with the implicit contract".
I read this as "find an employee who is too scared, too naieve or too stupid to enforce the explicit contract they signed".
If you want someone to do the work, you need to contract it. Anything else is abusive management.
The relevance of 1) is responding to this in your original post:
"Additionally, it sounds like the employee was treated well."
If Belgian law required say, two weeks notice and the CEO gave the guy 12 weeks I'd be more forgiving of her, but if the bare minimum of law is being implemented then she deserves nothing extra in return.
Considering Google has a datacentre in Belgian that presumably has 24/7 availability, I find this hard to believe. I presume Belgian has security guards, nightfill and a fire brigade also.
> What "find an employee with passion" really means is "find an employee who's attitude fits better with the implicit contract".
I read this as "find an employee who is too scared, too naieve or too stupid to enforce the explicit contract they signed".
If you want someone to do the work, you need to contract it. Anything else is abusive management.
The relevance of 1) is responding to this in your original post:
"Additionally, it sounds like the employee was treated well."
If Belgian law required say, two weeks notice and the CEO gave the guy 12 weeks I'd be more forgiving of her, but if the bare minimum of law is being implemented then she deserves nothing extra in return.