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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.

@NYCaliMama: you fired nannies but still have them references?

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 (!)

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.

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!

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.

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.

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?

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.