It is not fun firing someone.

[dank69]

I had to deliver the bad news to a peer once... I can't remember the exact circumstances, but he and I had the same manager, who was out of the office for illness. The manager's boss called me into his office and said that he had just found out that other guy was unable to acquire a security clearance... he asked me to break the news to the guy that he was immediately released since the job was contingent on the clearance. It sucked; the guy was personable and a good worker, and he seemed kind of desperate for a job.

Why did your boss' boss ask you to do his job? That is pretty lame.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Firing good people is tough, firing bad people is easy.

 

[Regs]

What drives me nutts is that there is a million decent hard workers out there with no job, and you ended up with the dead beat. I wouldn't feel guilt at all.

 

[bignateyk]

Laying someone off who doesn't deserve it would be alot harder than firing someone who does

 

[NuclearNed]

Why did your boss' boss ask you to do his job? That is pretty lame.

I don't know... at the time I also thought it was pretty lame.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I've had to fire a few, and while it's never fun, I never regretted the decision. One guy tested positive for cocaine, one physically threatened another employee, and another disappeared for two weeks because he was in jail for beating his girlfriend.

There was one situation that pissed me off, though. I told an employee that if he didn't work late that evening to not come back, and he packed his shit and left right then. A couple of months later my boss rehired him, and I became his manager again. He never complained about working late again, though, and he was a much better employee overall, so I guess ultimately he learned his lesson.