emotional toll of working with "dead man walking" coworkers

Posted by e7c2@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 279 comments

IT staff are generally given a bit of notice when someone is going to be terminated, sometimes people we've worked with for years and may even be friends with. Does anyone else find it stressful to see people in the office in the morning when you've been told to be ready to switch them off when they go into an afternoon meeting with HR? to say nothing of helping them with offboarding after the event, working with them to transfer out cell phone #s to personal account, or transferring family photos from their company laptop/mobile.