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Also do the opposite of the opposite.

If you need to fire someone, it's appropriate to use a somber tone to prepare the other party.

I was recently let go as basically agenda point 3 out of 4 during my normal weekly one-on-one with my manager and was completely blindsided (the position was made redundant entirely, so there was no preceding performance review or the like).



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