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Am I the A-Hull for firing an employee after his parents died? How soon after his parents died? He was the one that told them their parents died. I'm also going to have to fire you. Yeah, you're being very unproductive right now. I feel like we might just have to rip the Band-Aid off on this one, guys. Sometimes your parents died, just lose focus.

And I can already tell that you're losing focus. feel like we might just have to rip the band-aid off on this one, guys. Sometimes your parents

died, just lose focus, you know, and I can already tell that you're losing focus. By your

reaction, I have to fire you. I'm sorry. Like, you're too emotional to work at this job. Imagine

if I told you, you lost a deal and you reacted the same way. We can't have that. I would take your

pussy. This is why Sam and I work for ourselves.

Shout out to our team.

So I am the VP of Sales at a software company.

Oh, very important.

And one of the sales department reps' parents passed away at the beginning of April.

Sadly, they were involved in a car crash and both lost

their lives. That is terrible. I can't imagine, dude. Now, the employee in question is a very

young 22-year-old guy who has been with us for about 10 months. He doesn't have his career.

This isn't like a 40-year-old guy who's had a chance to build his

career and like do something else. He's a great employee. Well, that why'd you fire him? And we were

thinking about promoting him in the next six months. Let his parents have to go die. Where are

you heading with this, sir? His job is a high paying one for a new grad, about 90K with commission

and base. So we do expect

a lot from this position. Because of the accident, we let him take one month paid leave of absence

from work and he's returned a few weeks ago and his performance is severely lacking. His whole family

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