I have just had to fire someone

**Old Greg** · 16 March 2012, 18:00

Closest I've come was a fellow contractor who had just joined and who I had to get fired. Had to tell the guy as a courtesy as the client was just going to let the agency phone him and not say it to his face.

Not nice.

**OwlHoot** · 16 March 2012, 18:04

Originally posted by cojak View Post

Oh my!

Provided you did it compassionately, I'm pretty sure you'll have done them a favour.

(Says the voice of experience who jumped before being pushed...)

Exactly, you just have to be subtle.

"Team meeting in 2 minutes. Everyone into the staff room - Not you, Neil ..."

**bobspud** · 16 March 2012, 18:09

Never had a problem with it. I have fired 2 guys and in turn I got fired from my first job for being crap and non interested. A week or two later I started working in IT and never looked back.

You fired them. Fired means they were so bad at what they did, they needed to do something else, otherwise it was going to have an effect on your business or the people around them. Life's tough they will learn from it or they will not care and carry on being dumb enough to get canned.

Don't take it too hard and have a beer.

**mudskipper** · 16 March 2012, 18:32

Was it GeorgeB?

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...eaky-time.html

**centurian** · 16 March 2012, 18:45

Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

Just think of the commission you will be get when you fill the new vacancy

Boomed

Which might go a small way to pay the costs of the upcomming Industrial Tribunal, compensation, lawyers etc.

**suityou01** · 16 March 2012, 20:05

Originally posted by eek View Post

WZS I've done it twice and will probably have to do it again in the future and I hate doing it.