「 The Unpleasant Firing Process

“people are very insecure at Valve” because there’s always the feeling of, “Am I going to get fired?”
signals that you might be fired next include getting cryptic emails of someone saying “It’s my last day at Valve, loved working with you.”

Another one will come three hours later…
who fires you? “Someone volunteers because they felt it was important” 」
#Valve
#Gamedev
#FiringPeople

The first time I had to fire people was mere months into my first full-time job in tech. It was absolutely awful, but it taught me many worthy lessons that serve me to this day.

Firing people is one of the toughest things about leadership. But leaders sometimes have to fire people.

In this text, I get personal and talk about how to keep your humanity in a world of layoffs.

👉 Read on: https://mirzawriting.substack.com/p/leaders-have-to-fire-people?sd=pf

#ProductManagement #ProdMgmt #Product #ProductLeadership #Layoffs #FiringPeople