His approach to reducing the cost of running our country with mass layoffs is and was ridiculous. Not everyone in the government is lazy. Much of what people do is in their head as a person who has run businesses his entire life. I soon learned that laying an employee off, even a bad employee, can have consequences, For this reason before I let anyone go, I made sure my office manager met with the employee. The first goal was to put them on notice that we were not happy with their performance. He/she would then sit with them to go over their desk to see if this problem could be corrected and if not we knew what the were doing and were able to go in and take over their desk or divide their responsibilities over the balance of the staff so that the company continued to provide service while we searched for their replacement or downsized our staff. The mature way to have handled these layoffs would have been to have the head of each department evaluate who the felt was the least effective employee in their department and review their desk and decide who they wanted to let go and transfer their duties over the balance of the staff. I think this should have been done in waves of 5% of the staff at a time, not 50% day one. The process should take time to maintain quality and continuity of service.
