It is hard. The problem is that it&#x27;s also hard to back out of a bad hire, so the cost of making a mistake is tremendously high.<p>I&#x27;m a very &quot;right to work&quot; (bullshit term I know) oriented person, in that I think neither companies nor their employees should be obligated to each other at all. Firing&#x2F;quitting should be frictionless and easy. Instead, firing is wraught with legal problems such that you can&#x27;t even fire an employee unless you can monetarily justify the cost of a lawsuit against their impact of being a negative influence, or they&#x27;re part of some indiscriminate layoff procedure.<p>If I&#x27;m quitting or changing jobs, I&#x27;m harangued about it left and right by managers as to why or how this could happen.<p>Let&#x27;s not pretend we owe each other anything and just move on like any other business transaction.