Ever have to fire someone ?

[Steiny]

Man ... that job stinks. No matter how many times you do it, it's never a pleasant experience.
Had to let a young man go today. Nice kid, just couldn't do the job.

 

[txhunter58]

Been there many times. Never fun.

 

[JASON LEE]

Yes, for me to fire a guy he has to be pretty bad or dont care...and in that case, it doesnt bother me

 

[DRAFTSTUD]

I think I have the greatest "had to fire him" story ever. One of my clients wanted his son to become a Draftsman or Dog Catcher, anything! So he says "John, If you will hire my son, who is real good with computer Graphics, I will pay you his salary the day after you pay him. Well, hells bells! What a deal...making squares and circles with Paintbrush is not Computer Graphics!!!
As hard as I tried this young man had NO ambition what so ever, I would give him a lesson in AutoCad and leave him with a small job to come back and find him watching a Boat out the window going down the Red River!!! I finally decided that it was'nt worth the strain, so I had to fire him. Never again! John

 

[ELKCHSR]

Yep, just the other day...

Don't have much to do with people who decide to come to work on drugs...

Don't have any problem telling them they need to find some thing else to do either, under these circumstances

 

[Jezz]

Never had to fire anyone, but was interviewing cut guys for my engineered lumber yard and the person weeding through the applications missed that a person we call in for an interview was a convicted felon. Of course, wanting to know, figured it was DUI or something. I asked, he responded "convicted child molester" nearly fell out of my chair. He then went on to tell me that it was not done at work, but on his free time. Nearly threw up, I responded that makes it right? "well no, but I work hard". It is a character issue. I nearly fired the person that was going through applications I was so pissed for letting him come in for an interview.

 

[Delw]

Fireing someone is easy... if you have to fire them its cause they are lazy are dont do thier job. I never had a problem with it. I fired my best friend one time. we became better friends after I fired him, and there was never any hard feelings.
If they cant do the job they have no business in the work place.

Laying off someone on the other hand is what I never liked to do. Guys did thier job but yet do to work loads they had to be layed off. Thats the hard part.

 

[noharleyyet]

Most people who are discharged expect it. I agree with Del that laying off a good employee is difficult

 

[Calif. Hunter]

I've had to tell my managers to lay off 10 people in the last two weeks, and had to "do the deed" myself on 3 of them. As Del said, lay offs suck, because the employees haven't done anything wrong (although we do tend to lay off the more mediocre employees first.)

Firing is easy - I counsel and try to work with the person enough that by the time I have to fire them, I am upset with them for not getting it.

 

[enraeh]

Enough times to be

In the long run you are actually doing them a favor by making them get on with life instead of wandering cluelessly and never getting anywhere.

 

[enraeh]

Enough times to be

OK With it




In the long run you are actually doing them a favor by making them get on with life instead of wandering cluelessly and never getting anywhere.