I can't believe this. For the second time this week, I had to chuck out a team member. This is so tough.

Unlike the other resource that I fired, this was a new joinee. He had not been performing too well and I had already served him couple of warnings. Today was the final one.

At first I couldn't gather the courage to speak to him. But I eventually did. And once the news was broken, I just couldn't manage to keep looking at him. He appeared shocked .... and me ..... heartbroken.

Why am I having to do this? Why?

Dunno.

But honestly.... I don't want to do this any more.

Letter of TOE

In my whole professional career spanning a good 11+ years, the thought of having to terminate a team member never crossed my mind. I am among those unfortunate earthlings who are weak at heart and just can't think of even "thinking" bad for some one else. But here I am today, having to take an unfortunate decision of terminating the services of one of my junior team resources; that too of the opposite sex.

OK. This will be a breeze.

I will call her, tell her that she is being terminated because of poor performance and then just hand over the "Letter of Termination of Employment".

Short. And simple.

But wait a sec. What does one write in the L of TOE?

How am I supposed to know that you jack ass? I have never been terminated and have never been the terminator.

So the search on google started for "Letter of Termination of Employment". Total results returned: about 20,00,000.

Ugghhhhh
Man ..... this is going to be tough!!!!