Personally, it helped me a lot sticking with the guidance that an employee termination should never be a surprise. As in, if you lay out the documentation of incidents up to termination and ask the employee if they were in your shoes, what would they do, termination should be rhetorical. It helped me take pressure off of myself as it is just accountability for someone else’s actions not because of anything I did(as long as I was following through on every effort to get an employee back on track or actually develop a strategy for them to improve whatever deficiency)

That’s all you can do. People are always gonna be people.