Are you a businesswoman, businessman? Have you ever felt the misgivings after letting someone go from your employ? Although I know that the reasons were good, were right, somehow it feels like betrayal. There is no true guilt, instead sympathy, doubt, sadness and regret.
Was there something else that I could have done to make it work? Could I have been more direct, more critical to somehow make her see, make her increase her effort, see what she could be... if only?
The potential was there, but little drive. How much time, how much teaching, how much parenting would it have taken to nurture it?
One part of me wants to be that mentor, that encourager, the one who doesn't care how long it takes. I just want to help her get from one place, one time, one stage to another. But that person doesn't work at my store. The person who does, knows that I must make decisions for the good of the store, the team, the customers who rely on us.
It was the right decision, but I still know that I let down a young woman, and entered myself into her story as either the critical professor or as the demonous villan... I know not which.
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