Tell an employee that they must find a new job on a Monday or a Tuesday – not a Friday, cautions Ron Shaw, chief executive of Pilot Pen Corp. and co-author of
Pilot Your Life (Clerisy). It gives the employee the rest of the week to pick up the pieces, start looking for a new job and regain some sense of control. Why not a termination on Friday? “We don’t want them anguishing over their misfortune over the weekend,” Shaw says.