Frank Rizzo
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Just wondered if anyone would like chime on this.
I have a part-time sales job (retail) and the manager of the dept I work in hired someone who he has had a long-standing friendship with. In fact, the hiree used to babysit him when he was a kid (they grew up on the same block).
Does a history like that possibly interfere with the manager's responsibility to be objective in a supervisory role?
I get along with both of them well enough. We certainly need the help right now. But if I were in either one of their positions, I wouldn't be comfortable. And that's not to say that I haven't developed friendships at the workplace. I have. But I've never had a friendship with someone in the workplace before the workplace.
I guess if the company doesn't have a problem with it and they don't have a policy against it, it's not an issue. I have a personal policy against it myself because I'd rather not mix business with personal if I can. Maybe I'm too uptight though.
I have a part-time sales job (retail) and the manager of the dept I work in hired someone who he has had a long-standing friendship with. In fact, the hiree used to babysit him when he was a kid (they grew up on the same block).
Does a history like that possibly interfere with the manager's responsibility to be objective in a supervisory role?
I get along with both of them well enough. We certainly need the help right now. But if I were in either one of their positions, I wouldn't be comfortable. And that's not to say that I haven't developed friendships at the workplace. I have. But I've never had a friendship with someone in the workplace before the workplace.
I guess if the company doesn't have a problem with it and they don't have a policy against it, it's not an issue. I have a personal policy against it myself because I'd rather not mix business with personal if I can. Maybe I'm too uptight though.