"H the K" wrote in message
m...
Eisboch wrote:
"H the K" wrote in message
m...
Actually, if you don't run tests and check backgrounds, you simply don't
know if you've hired a druggie or a thief, do you?



sigh Some of us take responsibility for our decisions. If proven
wrong, we accept our misjudgment.

Eisboch

You are skirting the "factuality" of the statement.


It doesn't matter. In a small operation, the bad apples smell quickly.

I am not in disagreement with you. It's just that it is obvious that your
experiences in life have been heavily weighed towards bigger businesses,
unions and/or the attempts to organize them.
In that size of a company the president and upper level management are
typically not involved with day to day operations and in the hiring of new
employees, other than top management.

In may case, virtually all my experience is with very small businesses,
although we dealt with large ones often as a supplier of equipment. During
my tenure as owner/president of a company, we peaked at about 70 something
employees, probably not much larger than the BOD of IBM. By that time
formal departments with department managers were in place and they were
responsible for the recruitment and hiring of people to staff their
departments.

But, we maintained a custom of having me also do a short interview, usually
during the second, follow up interview, with all prospective new employees
recommended by the respective department managers. All I really did was
give a speach about the company "team" culture. But, it gave me an
opportunity to size up who would be joining the team, from engineers to
general shop labor.

Eisboch