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> I have and I'm no sociopath. I think its easy to justify firings if you have a mature and adult attitude towards work. People perform a fireable offense and t
by mrkurt 10y ago
> I have and I'm no sociopath. I think its easy to justify firings if you have a mature and adult attitude towards work. People perform a fireable offense and they're out the door. If you're experienced and honest with what it takes to run a business, this stuff isn't that horrible to deal with.
That's best case firing. Firing for performance is much harder, in my experience. Justification for that is never 100% for me, because performance failures are almost always my failure somewhere along the way (because I hired badly, or set bad expectations, or didn't help someone enough).
- skewart 10y agoThink of it from the perspective of the other employees on your team. In most cases the person being let go for performance reasons is a drag for them to work with. Plus, even for the employee being let go, it's usually better for that to happen sooner rather than later so they can more quickly move on. Not firing someone who isn't a good fit is just avoiding your own discomfort (letting the person go) while forcing other people to suffer. It's actually the less empathetic, more psychopathic thing to do.
- mrkurt 10y agoOh I agree. I just don't think understanding that something is logically best for a group of people is why I can do a hard thing. I'm fairly sure there's a part of my brain that lets me act against my empathy for an individual at times.