[wreath]

Thanks for your detailed input!

I've been around people who were fired in Germany as well, both as what you described in 1) and 2).

2) takes a lot of effort, a lot of people and the negative effect of that person's performance on the rest of the team can be severely damaging too, that I wish we had at-will employment in Germany too sometimes, but it's there for good measures and I'm generally happy with it.