For me the most important sentences are these: "I had to let go of an employee" "we need the assistance of our colleague urgently" Same guy. So there is a bu

For me the most important sentences are these: "I had to let go of an employee" "we need the assistance of our colleague urgently" Same guy. So there is a bus-factor of 1 and you fired that person. Since said firing was "a few weeks" ago, all critical stuff should have been out of his hands.