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Originally posted by leagleaze
Anyway, any firing advice? Also, anyone out there dealt with UC much, I could use some off-line advice on an issue or two.
This really sucks.
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Be very, very matter of fact, and very, very cold. You don't have to be mean but you are not the firee's shoulder to cry on, either.
I was involved in a firing in which we gave a laundry list of deficiencies (all pretty well documented, thank god). At one point, the firee nearly broke down and said "it sounds like you're saying I don't know how to do my job." My first inclination was to be gentle and sympathetic and say something like "no, that's not really it, it's just not a good fit" or some such bullshit. That kind of back-pedalling would not have been good. Thankfully, my more experienced and cold-blooded colleague cut in and said "yeah, that's basically what we're saying." Which was the right message at the time.
