Sometimes you are doing them a favor, just neither of you realize it at the time. Invite them to find their happiness elsewhere. And sometimes they do. They take stock of their life and head off in a much better direction.
Unless it was a really bad scene, I offer a letter recommendation along with the comment that “I am not trying to ruin their life”. Bottom line: It is not your job to make sure they keep their job. From: Adair Winter Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 6:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Complaining Employees It sucks to let people go. The guy has is single with a couple kids, he almost cried in the meeting. Wondering how he was going to pay rent... Hard to watch, We did give him severance pay, which was more than a week and a half of his hourly.. We didn't have to do that, but we also aren't jerks either. :) On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Matt Hoppes <[email protected]> wrote: On 7/22/17 8:47 PM, Adair Winter wrote: We just had to let an installer go, 7 write ups in 7 months. Always something small and always had an excuse for it. In the meeting where we let him go he complained that he hadn't been shown the right things to do and if he had he would have fixed them. It was garbage, he had ride alongs with his supervisor and had been told several times that he needed to make minor corrections in areas. In the end, you just have to document everything and bring down the hammer. ^^^^ This... is unfortunately how I've seen this situation play out far too often. Which is what led me to ask this question. It doesn't matter how many times you say things and how clearly you try to lay it out -- when push comes to shove, somehow the employee had no clue they were being told to fix things. -- Adair Winter VP, Network Operations / Co-Owner Amarillo Wireless | 806.316.5071 C: 806.231.7180 http://www.amarillowireless.net
