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People prefer to quit a job or fire an employee before having a difficult conversation.

In my experience it’s a lot easier to have a difficult conversation than to fire someone.

Quitting/firing is a difficult conversation to have.

Hardly anyone gets fired that way. Instead they go in the spreadsheet for the next round of layoffs, which are mechanical and depersonalized.

>Instead they go in the spreadsheet for the next round of layoffs, which are mechanical and depersonalized.

I've never worked at a company where anyone was fired that way