After seeing this EXACT SAME post by 23 different people on my feed, I had to say something...

This specific copy of the post is by a VP trying to say that bad performers should not be terminated.

Yes, you read that correctly.

He then assumes that if someone is terminated, they are shouted at, humiliated, and misunderstood.

Do you really want to live in a world where "terminating an employee due to performance" is shunned?

Do you really want to live in a world where a bad performer is blamed on "how YOU treated THEM", rather than how they broke your trust in doing the job they were hired to do?

Do you really want to live in a world where terminating a bad performer is somehow viewed as "costing them their dignity?

Personal responsibility goes a long way in how successful someone is in their career and life. I understand that success is measured in different ways, but performing poorly at work and then blaming it on anyone but yourself is not going to result in you becoming closer to whatever "success" means for you.

Just to be clear, terminating someone without treating them like a human being is wrong. Terminating them for not performing is not wrong.

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