Termination: Boss has to dismiss employees and cries
Created: 2023-01-02 07:30
By: Carina Blumenroth
Planning mistakes, crises or insolvency - when companies do poorly, employees are laid off.
One boss emotionally shared this decision on LinkedIn.
Every day you make decisions - when it comes to companies or companies, for example, a decision can cost a lot of money.
Managers or managing directors are responsible.
They then have to see how bad decisions can be corrected.
Sometimes employees have to be laid off for this.
A CEO writes about this on the business network
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Boss has to terminate employees: "I had to make the most difficult decision today"
A businessman sometimes has to make difficult decisions.
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The business network LinkedIn is not only useful for job hunting - the platform also offers users the space to express themselves in articles on topics that mostly relate to professional life.
Employees and managers can network and exchange ideas there.
In 2022, Braden Wallake, from the Columbus metropolitan area (USA), shared an emotional post on LinkedIn.
The managing director had to lay off employees.
He writes in his own contribution: "Today I had to make the most difficult decision."
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"On days like this, I wish I was a CEO who just wants money and doesn't care who gets hurt along the way.
But I'm not," Wallake wrote in his statement on LinkedIn.
He goes on to share his rationale for the statement, saying that people should see that not all CEOs are cold-hearted.
He takes full responsibility for the plot: “One, two or three [employees;
Editor's note] would still be here if I had made better decisions.” Along with his written statement, Wallake shares a selfie of him crying.
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Crying Boss on LinkedIn: Users criticize Wallake
Since the post was created in mid-2022, over 10,500 people have commented on the crying boss's post.
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User: “Awkward, transparent narcissism pretending to be a virtual signal.
It's complacency that ignores what matters most: the people who lost their jobs.
Why not put the energy into helping them.”
User: "The post is all about you: how you feel about having to fire people, how hard it is for you.
For you – the managing director.”
User: "Firing people is difficult - even if there is a real reason.
I've had complete and near breakdowns in similar situations.
The risk is with you, you always have to make the difficult decisions.”
User: "I don't think anyone blames him for posting the crying selfie.
I think the problem is that he fired three people who now have no income."
User: "Next level marketing."
User: "If you weren't thinking about the money, you wouldn't fire anyone for your mistake.
They would handle the situation with less money and keep all the employees.
I bet the salaries you no longer have to pay won't work miracles."
The post went viral and many users shared their opinions, criticizing Wallake's operational decision and posting what some users felt was the first self-centered post.
Wallake's profile reached reach and he used it.
He posts the profile of a laid-off employee and describes them - several job offers for the laid-off employee were the reaction to it.
Finally he has a new job.
