Terminating An Employee
This is more of a confession than anything else...
A year ago I had an amazing tight knit, high performing team, however due to changes in tge business my team was broken up and I inherited a team that had been poorly managed for over 4 years, these people were lazy, rude , that felt that they were immune from processes and policies most of which were in place due to state and federal laws.
Over the last 12 months, I have had tears, tantrums and down right disrespect, all of which each team member was written up and dealt with accordingly.
Most of the team have self selected and left on their terms, but today, I terminated the most difficult one of that team, who happens to be the last of that group of people.
Now, I have done terminations in the past, and I have always felt something for the team member who was let go, however with this one, I feel oddly satisfied. Mainly due to the fact that I played a long game, and won.
I just wanted to put that out there to anyone experiencing a difficult team member or like in my case a whole team, there can be light at the end of the tunnel and it is not always a bus.