On: It's Never Too Early to Fire

[arethuza]

"Permanent employees are basically impossible to fire."

That really isn't true at all - you can be fired for pretty much anything in the first two years and after that the process is pretty straightforward.

I've never seen a company fail to get rid of someone they didn't want working there - one way or another.

[wyclif → arethuza]

It's harder to do in Europe, but it's still possible. Especially, as you say, if there's management determination that the person has to go.

[philjr → wyclif]

You really can't generalize across Europe