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by mb_72
5107 days ago
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'Letting you go' is the best way to balance being direct, and also being (somewhat sensitive), I think. Although the appropriateness of any phrase is related to context. One place I worked I was aware some people were about to be fired, and I was staggered to see the boss taking one of these guys shopping for a new PC(!) The very next day - even before the PC arrived at our office - this guy was taken in for 'the talk'. He came out, sat at his (old) PC, and wrote the most blistering and blunt assessment of my boss, the company, and the rest of us. Quite reasonable too, given the circumstances. And I never worked out if my boss was intentionally being cruel, or if he just simply forgot this guy was about to be fired.
As for the received email, I had just enough time to reply "If you put as much effort into the rest of your work as you did this email, you'd still be working here" before the guy left. |
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"As for the received email, I had just enough time to reply "If you put as much effort into the rest of your work as you did this email, you'd still be working here" before the guy left."
One of these things is not like the other...