So what's the alternative when you fire someone? Let them send that last email? Download the files off the server that will help them get the job at your competitor? Have them talk to your patients waiting in the lobby as they walk out of the office for the last time?

The last guy I fired was when I was managing a software development team of ~25 people in Budapest. One guy slept with another guy's girlfriend. The girlfriend came to work. Shit got crazy. Shit got broken.

Boyfriend didn't do anything wrong. Girlfriend was banned from the office.

But fuck-buddy showed really poor judgment, and I couldn't have that on a team of people who were developing financial software for Deutsche Bank.

So dude got fired.

When I got fired from the moving company, it was because I was scammed by a customer and her daughter who pretended to be each other. I had no way to know who I was talking to on the phone... the 40 year old mother or the 22 year old daughter. They had the same details and information and shared the account password with each other. But I'd failed to magically intuit that, and therefore had to be fired because I failed to protect their "private information" ... that they themselves had shared with each other.

If I'd had a moment with my computer prior to being escorted out of the building, I would have deleted all records of their account. They'd never be able to rebuild it.

This was also where I had to be drug tested because I worked in the "transportation industry" and therefore - to sit at a desk with a headset on, a keyboard, and a monitor, taking payments for moving fees - the Federal Government had to be sure I was safe to drive a heavy duty vehicle on the roads, despite the fact I didn't have a vehicle or a CDL license.

Be angry. I am, too. This shit's moronic. But in the end, I don't give enough of a shit to do anything about it.

I just make sure to turn down people-manager jobs when they are offered to me. I'm not a sadist.