A bad employee? There's no such thing.

We train managers to think of complex, variable issues in very black-and-white ("Send him to HR!") terms, and that's a problem.

Let's just come out and say it: there's no such thing as a bad employee.

Some posterior-puckering middle manager just hurled himself through a plate glass window or stabbed himself with a pencil, so let me elaborate for a few moments. There are definitely assholes in this world (ironically, many of them become senior executives if they stay at a place lo…