Hellobee Boards Topic: Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?

Hellobee Boards Topic: Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 03 May 2026 07:03:57 +0000 Maysprout on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110957 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:37:13 +0000 Maysprout 110957@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I tossed someone from a project I was in charge of and she was fired a couple months later. She was completely incompetent and I was the last person in the office willing to take her on - she had drug and alcohol problems and was hired to do a job that required driving but she didn't have a licence due to DUIs. No one could figure out why she was even hired. I could usually make things work but one day a project just absolutely needed done and she was throwing one of her fits so I kicked her off. Big mistake - turns out the reason she was unfit but still working with us was because she was living with my married boss, who knows how that worked. Within a couple months he had fired her and kicked her out but I definitely didn't get on my bosses good side and I lost about all my respect for him, so from then on I just started looking for a new job myself. Mrs. Sunglasses on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110947 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:28:54 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 110947@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I don't have a position with the authority to fire or lay-off. Maybe one day. Alivoo01 on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110867 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:14:15 +0000 Alivoo01 110867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I've had to fire 1 person due to performance at my corporate job. Meanwhile, at the hubby and I's business, we've had to fire quite a few people. It's hard, but when they aren't performing up to your standards and demand a certain pay, you better earn your keep ya know? Migena on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110787 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:25:06 +0000 Migena 110787@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yes, and it wasn't a good day, even though the person was being fired for a very good reason. shinystraps on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110786 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:24:23 +0000 shinystraps 110786@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I've fired a person before, and had to lay off three people. The person I fired was a terrible employee and while it always sucks to tell someone they don't have a job anymore, it was justified. What was really hard was telling three good people who worked hard and were good at their jobs that they were being laid off. Modern Daisy on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110783 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:21:52 +0000 Modern Daisy 110783@https://boards.hellobee.com/ No, I've never been in a position where people were reporting into me at work or had anyone working in my home to fire. But my last job was a management position (with no direct reports) so I did get to weigh in on performance evaluations and I would know who was getting the boot ahead of time. ALittleP on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110780 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:20:41 +0000 ALittleP 110780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Twice - once I had an employee with a serious drinking problem who kept coming to work heavily under the influence and the other an employee who had serious performance issues. I was not the hiring manager for either and would not have hired either of these people, so it sucked to have to do it but it was better for each company and in the end I think helpful for each of those people, who ended up doing better where they landed. heffalump on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110743 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:40:57 +0000 heffalump 110743@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Kind of. I used to work at an impatient facility with adults with mental illnesses. They had a work program where the clients were able to do random jobs for money. And if they did poorly I had to be the one to tell them. But they had to be very very bad to get fired from that. MaisyMay on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110725 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:37:38 +0000 MaisyMay 110725@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I may have to in the next few weeks and am dreading it. We have an employee who bought a ticket to go out of the country during the busiest part of the year for bridal (now!) even though she's worked in bridal before and knows that this is the time of year you don't take time off during. She has a bad attitude, too. I don't think we'll be able to keep her position open for two weeks because we'll need somebody else to work while she's gone. I told my boss that she needs to be the one to tell her, but I have a feeling it'll be up to me. UGH! autumnlove on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110712 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:43:39 +0000 autumnlove 110712@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We had company wide layoffs and I had to tell 6 people. One guy (someone that was lazy and should have been fired)was so upset he got drunk after getting laid off and waited downstairs to talk to me at the end of my work day. He screamed and accused me of ruining his life and other nonsense. That was pretty scary but our building security shooed him away. That was 4 years ago...I got a text a few months from that guy who told me that he put me down as a reference! Um..ok? cupcakemama on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110685 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:45:13 +0000 cupcakemama 110685@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Never fired someone - I'm a teacher! I have had to fail people doing their teaching pracs, which is a fairly big deal and usually an indicator that you suck at teaching. 2 of them quit uni and went and did something else. Andrea on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110679 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:34:17 +0000 Andrea 110679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I have gotten rid of nannies too. For work, I haven't had to let anyone go but I kinda forced someone to quit by giving him no bonus. twinmama on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110675 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:31:26 +0000 twinmama 110675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I had to fire someone. It was a new employee who was just always distracted and not performing. Wasn't exactly fun, but wasn't as bad as I thought. Luckily, they didn't get angry or anything, just complained that they should have stayed on unemployment instead of accepting the job in the first place (!) SAHM0811 on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110672 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:27:21 +0000 SAHM0811 110672@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yes one nanny because she was a live-out and she wasn't willing to live-in, but at the time my DH and I decided a live-in would be better for our family. Then we found our 2nd nanny, a live-in, and we let her go when DD was old enough to go to pre-school and we no longer needed her (nor could afford her plus preschool) Eta: sorry I should've said in my original post that they were being let go for reasons other than their performance. Mrs. Pen on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110671 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:24:52 +0000 Mrs. Pen 110671@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @NYCaliMama: you fired nannies but still have them references? SAHM0811 on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110666 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:12:06 +0000 SAHM0811 110666@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Our two nannies and a housekeeper.... Not easy at all to do. But I tried to refer them to other households afterwards. mediagirl on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110635 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:18:01 +0000 mediagirl 110635@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yes. We had company-wide layoffs and I had to tell 4 employees their job was being eliminated. I also was preparing to fire an employee once and during the meeting I had with him, he quit! And he agreed to work two more weeks! It was the craziest meeting I have ever had. :-) mrbee on "Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-had-to-fire-someone-or-lay-them-off#post-110633 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:15:36 +0000 mrbee 110633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Kind of the flip side of the "have you ever been laid off" question... Have you ever had to fire someone or lay them off? How did it go?