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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
Am I right that if you have to let someone go this time of year, you do it after the holidays? After just Xmas? Or after Xmas and New Year's?
This was sold to us as an experienced para and the bill comes due 1/5. But when em took 5 hours to do a 2 sentence letter and got it wrong, and sent it the wrong way enuf's enuf.
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Fire em in January, and you screwed em because em spent all their holiday money happy em had the job.
Fire em now, and you're just a fucking scrooge.
So, only real choice, let them know now that they are not working out, but you feel badly especially given the time of year, so you are going to give them one month notice instead of the two weeks you'd give em in January. Tell them not to show up for work. They will still hate you. But your other employees will think you are not bad for a boss as long as they hear you gave them the extra severance; the other employees want them gone as much as you do and believe you have unlimited funds to assuage your guilt and properly used them to do that.
Your only other real alternative is to suffer with them through February, in which case you may well be viewed as a too nice sap by your other employees.
