Gross Misconduct?

[Forester1965]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Forester1965 said:

Your employer may be happy for you to risk unlawful terminations as a cost of business. Not usually the sign of a good employer,

Not necessarily. Sometimes (more often than not) your staff will thank you for pulling the trigger and clearing out a wastrel in the team.

Exactly, hence what I said.

[Another project]

My boss always says that he'd rather his staff think that he's a than being liked by them. So the manager in the OP must be doing something right