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You Were Told to Go Easy on a Failing Employee - Prayer Before Work

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You're a newer manager. You love your work and your team. Then a new hire shows up: twenty-seven, no experience, placed there by his dad, and earning what your best people earn.

You gave him the simplest task you could think of and it still didn't get done. Your team started handing his work to the intern. When you finally got firm with him, word came back down the ladder: be patient, help him, don't be so hard on him. This kid could get you fired.

Ecclesiastes 10:5-6 doesn't pretend this kind of thing doesn't happen. The writer calls it an error, so you're not…

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