I’m letting go of an employee this week, and it’s making me feel terrible. I’m wracked with guilty and full of empathy.

I’m still letting them go, but any advise on how to not feel so emotionally guilty for firing someone?

  • chutboy@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I had to fire a 30 year old employee that was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer and also had a new born baby. Great person, good employee. I thought of him as a friend and I cried for the first time in years. At the end of the day, keeping him was severely detrimental to my business and finances. He could no longer do the job and was gone 3 days a week. I had to choose my family over his situation and that’s how I coped.