Fire Your Friend
Do you write down their name?
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Fire Your Friend
Cuts are coming. Your boss tells you privately: pick one person from your team, or the decision gets made above you and it'll be two people, one of them you. Your closest friend at work is the weakest performer on paper and the reason you've stayed as long as you have.
Do you write down their name?
Then ask
- Would you tell them it was you, afterwards?
- If you refuse and lose your own job, is that a moral act or a way to stay clean?
- Who at work would write your name down without much trouble?
The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.