Well today was one of those really rotten days.
Yesterday I had a late afternoon meeting with the boss and the decision was made to reduce our training staff (in half). We only have 4 but with the reduction in the student load for the next 6 months they, (management), determined we didn’t need to keep everyone on the payroll.
It was not really my position (I thought) to “fire” people as I am just a coordinator but I didn’t like the way the first one was terminated – by email was fair. I stepped in and ended up with the “you can do it” so I had to call the second guy to let him know. He was a friend of mine that I