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The main reason Shark Tank<\/em> star Barbara Corcoran fires people?\u00a0<\/p>\n Having a bad attitude.<\/p>\n On a recent podcast episode of The Burnouts, <\/em>Corcoran shared that after hiring her first salesperson from another firm and training her \u201clike crazy for a year-and-a-half,\u201d there was one thing training couldn\u2019t fix: her attitude.<\/p>\n That experience taught her a straightforward, non-negotiable hiring principle. While skills can be taught, a good attitude cannot. <\/p>\n \u201cI learned a very valuable lesson: [if you] have somebody who has a bad attitude, they\u2019re going to suck up other people into their attitude,\u201d Corcoran said in the podcast episode. <\/p>\n One person\u2019s negative outlook can bleed into the rest of the workplace. To protect her team\u2019s culture, Corcoran said she fires people with a bad attitude \u201cright away,\u201d because she doesn\u2019t want them to \u201ccontaminate\u201d other employees\u2019 mindsets.<\/p>\n \u201cI want a happy atmosphere,\u201d she added. \u201cThe minute I see a complainer, I make an appointment to fire them.\u201d<\/p>\n Corcoran has been vocal about how negative attitudes impact workplace culture in the past. When asked why she was so irked by complainers in a past episode of Diary of a CEO<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Corcoran answered that complainers are \u201cthieves.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey take your money away and they take your energy, and the most valuable asset you have is your energy,\u201d she said in the episode. \u201cAnd if they take your energy away, you\u2019re not going to deliver enough to everybody else\u2014there\u2019s not enough to go around.\u201d<\/p>\n