mishire

verb
/mɪsˈhaɪə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From mis- + hire.

  1. derived from *kewHs-
  2. inherited from *hūzijaną
  3. inherited from *hūʀiju — “payment
  4. inherited from hȳr — “employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent
  5. inherited from hire
  6. prefixed as mishire — “mis + hire

Definitions

  1. To hire an unsuitable person for a job.

    • Today's lawyers run the risk of feeding the "greedy, arrogant law firm" persona already well-established in the minds of most people when they mishire, mismanage, and improperly funnel resources.
  2. The act of mishiring.

    • Most mishires stem from the fact that some item of intelligence was not collected at the time of hiring.
    • As if the barrage of negative feedback was not evidence enough of a mishire, within six months her entire team quit, including me.
    • Perhaps even more important, alumni are known quantities; the risk of a costly mishire is almost completely eliminated.
  3. An unsuitable person who has been mishired.

    • Merely by representing salary and/or job description in annual terms, you may be legally stuck with a mishire for that one-year period.
    • If they are basically in business for themselves to do what they want to do rather than what you need done you have a mishire who you need to get out of the organiztion quickly.
    • The other three-fourths (the B- and C-Players) become mishires and mispromotions.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mishire. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA