Today I mustered up the guts to sit down a couple employees for the bye bye talk. I HATE doing that, but I finally made myself do it. Times are really tough here and these two are really boat anchors anymore. They have been here so long that they feel untouchable (15 years). Their cost vs output simply made them inviable to me. Not to mention poor attitude as they are at the top of my pay scale and have been for a while. In this business there is a ceiling and that's that. This sours some folk and their attitude becomes a cancer in the shop. With the business on the fence financially I have to do what I have to do.
I know, I'm an ogre.
One took it well and shook my hand, the other cried and promised to send her husband "in to see me". That should be interesting.
Anyway, I'm glad it's (mostly) over as I needed to do it, but I'm sad that I had to.
Thank goodness for Michigan "at will " employement laws.