I fired someone today and they took it badly, do you have any advice?

It was a girl in my restaurant. I caught her giving away an item to her friends, and the owner decided to fire her on my report. She cried and bawled so badly and made a scene. I've never felt so horrible in my life. There was no doubt. As a manager, I had to report her, or the theft would've continued.





How do you deal with situations like this.I fired someone today and they took it badly, do you have any advice?
She was stealing, she should have known better. She was crying because she felt like a great injustice was done to her even though she knew she was guilty. Its good that she was fired, because she was stealing, and because this makes the rest of the employees fearful of doing the same thing.I fired someone today and they took it badly, do you have any advice?
Do not Take it Personal, Its Business, One of the harder finer points on being a Good Supervisor, Take it in Stride there man
She was in the wrong. She only screamed so loudly because she was embarrassed to be caught or didn't think she did wrong.





Stealing is wrong, doesn't matter where it happens.





Stealing from a company hurts you! Sure your not the CEO with the golden parachute, your the guy/gal that feels the cutbacks from corporate waste.





Corporate waste is the number one reason I get into arguments with living the party line about unions. Dont' get me wrong (blue collar family on the northwest side of Chicago.. I get unions). What ticks me off is the waste. You see the ruination of everything unions stood for. They stood for the everyman - fair days work - fair days wage. Today they are not like that... It's not my job is basically a union employee war cry. Or how about the leaners club... the 7 supervisors to 1 worker. I could go on %26amp; on.





This corporate waste leads to offshoring. If Ford charges $46 an hr for an employee %26amp; of those employees you have 7 leaners, %26amp; 4 not my jobs, %26amp; the rest are only moving as productively as fast as a turtle %26amp; anyone who moves faster %26amp; more productively is chastised %26amp; the bad guy... = who loses?





America loses. Anyone visiting Detroit can see the bombed out effect of business leaving enmass. What about the daily reports of 100's, 1000's of jobs going overseas?





We chased them off. Not only were we complacent in our lack of quality marketing (how exactly did toyota become such a quality product... answer goes to the actual quality %26amp; screaming from the mountain of the quality.).





We also keep the fat. Not only are we a physically obese country, we tend to keep the fat in our work places. I don't think anyone of us can not think of a single person in their current or past work place who had the entire ';not my job'; mentality %26amp; wouldn't budge, move, ect beyond taking a paycheck at the end of the week. In fact I am willing to bet that that same person confounded you as to what exactly they accomplished to achieve that paycheck.





Not to give you a giant headache, but to help you feel better about your decision.
You did what you had to do, or else you would have been in trouble. I would look at it this way: she put herself in that position and it's her fault she got fired. She knew what she was doing was wrong. It's ok to feel upset about it, but you did the right thing. Hopefully, she'll learn from her mistake.
You did nothing wrong and you did absolutely the right thing.





She was upset because she was caught. She wasn't crying because she was feeling guilty.





You did the right thing and quite possibly saved your own job. No employee stealing is worth keeping around.





You did the right thing and keep on doing what you are doing and good will come to you!
You can not take it persona. I know it is hard not to do so, but this is your job. I work in H%26amp;R and think about it this way. What if this would have been a test to your loyalty to the company, if the girl had been asked to set a situation up and see if you would report it and you didnt then you would have been fired. You always have to look at it as being their job or yours, who's is more important? I terminate on average 20 employees a month, and yes some of them are hard to handle, infact some of them are darn right heart breaking, but the fact is that is what I am there to do. I am there to make the best decisions for my company, and at the end of the day I know that I have done my job and made my company better for it. It is never easy to fire someone but it will come to you, and for just the fact that you care shows that you are a great manager!
Move on. She stole, received the consequence, done. You are in a position where you can't be every ones friend. If you take your job seriously you'll have to come to terms with the fact that this won't be your last time firing someone. Some people get pissed when they're fired others just accept it and especially girls who like to pull the girly, how could you be so cruel tears
You have to stay professional and stand firm. You did the right thing and it will show her what can happen when she properly doesn't do a job. She will be fine and now she knows life takes social skills. Self control is a sign of maturity. She made a scene because she isn't mature. Don't take her problem and make it yours. You don't deserve to feel bad in this situation.
Just move on.You did your job. She'll find a job again.
was she going to pay for it later? if not then u did the right thing. i would feel bad too but just keep telling yourself that its business...better her than you!
You didn't do anything. You did what you had to do and the girl did what she did. Simple as that.
Remain professional...it obviously would make you feel bad as a person to have this employee cry so badly when you terminated her, however, keep in mind she brought it on herself by giving away things. If you are in a managerial position it comes with the territory to have to sometimes fire people and you cannot allow your emotions to show.
Of course you are going to feel bad. You are a human being with compassion,but this girl was stealing and she knew that it was wrong. Its her own fault that she was fired not yours. You did the right thing. Just know that sometimes we all feel sorry for someone that has done something wrong and got caught. Hopefully she has learned a very valuable lesson.
You're fine. You did your job she didn't do hers.
Your job as a manager is to protect the owners assets. You can't feel bad about doing your job. If she broke company policy, then it's not your problem.
You shrug it off and get on with your job. Crying and bawling and making a scene huh? She was probably distracting you from looking in her bag at other stuff she stole. Once a thief.......
Well, first of all, you did the right thing by reporting her. As the manager, you're responsible for the other employees. Not doing your job would be just as bad as the initial problem (her theft).





Keep reminding yourself of that whenever this whole situation starts to get to you. Just keep thinking, ';I did the right thing.'; It'll help.





This might be a good time for you to focus on what the people who are still working there are doing properly. Some genuine, earned praise can really cheer up the work environment and make everybody feel a little better about this whole thing.
laugh out at them and say NOW LET THIS BE A LESSON TO ALL OF YA
You handled it prefectly. Basically she was stealing and you did your job by reporting it. if she would've been doing her job she wouldn't have had time to do this. It's called work for a reason. I am proud that you stood up and did the right thing. Few people do that these days
The owner gets the last say. He/she could have just given the girl a warning, but maybe he/she knew something more, and this girl was doing something else. Being fired sucks, but she should have been clear about the rules, or she could have offered to pay for that item from her paycheck.
I would have looked the other way and ignored it, its not like she was stealing money
I was a manager for over 20 years. Its never easy to fire anyone. The first one is always the hardest, or was it the second? or third? or eleventh?





It'll never be easy.