The Worst Way You Could Ever Fire Your Employee
If you want to build a good work culture, don’t do this
It was the Chinese New Year (CNY) period and we had a couple of days off. The night right before the first of CNY, one colleague shared in a group chat (with approximately 6 other teammates) about a message he got from our boss.
The text told him that he didn’t have to come in the next working day because they’ve decided to let him go.
This poor guy, who had no idea what he did wrong, was let go a day before one of the biggest festive seasons in Singapore.
The day he should have spent celebrating and stuffing himself with pineapple tarts, he spent it locked in despair.
Choose a work day instead
That night, none of us felt the mood to welcome the new year.
I’m not Chinese so I don’t celebrate CNY. Even then, I felt it was a terrible time to fire someone. To my ex-boss, however, he wanted to start the New Year with a fresh team that won’t drag the company down.
They could have done it a week or two before but they chose to do it right before CNY. We would’ve understood if his immediate termination was due to him stealing valuable asset or causing serious harm to the company.
