I can’t concentrate because about 2 hours ago I was asked (read: ordered) to let someone go this afternoon. She’s nice but useless and I understand why she needs to go but I thought it would be far nicer to do it in the new year… my boss feels that “he doesn’t want to pay someone for being useless!” and I don’t have much choice but to comply. This dismissal goes against what I know to be good HR practices – that terminations should happen in the middle of the week and away from annual events.
But this is his common business practice… make a decision and want to see action now! (I mean NOW!) These decisions are made regardless of the implications that this may have on the other staff in the office, the employees mental health and the general morale of the office.
Not only all that (wasn’t enough I know) but the prospect of being such an evil woman has my tummy churning in all the bad ways. I’m feeling overly warm and I can’t concentrate on work at all – I think tonight I’m going to need some serious anti-stress activities.
Update: Well it's done, I've switched some staff around and it's going to suck but I've made one staff member very happy... and I think she deserves that happiness. Now I'm off to the mall to bury this guilt in shopping and then something alcoholic shortly afterwards.
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