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Hey, happy new year, you're fired!
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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
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.
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Sidd, one does not fire a hooker, one simply changes contractors.
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