Hi - I dont know you personally either, and I do think Goldie might have been a little foolish about speaking quite so much...
However - THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN JUSTIFY FIRING SOMEONE VIA EMAIL. PERIOD. EVER. NO WAY. CANNOT. EVEN IF YOU FIRED HIM FOR SOMETHING HE DID.
That was just horrible and nasty and rather than admonisishing him, you should apologize for handling it in such a cold corporate manner.
I mean, we are in this business because we have chosen NOT to work for the type of corporate bastards who lay people off by email before the holidays and lock em out of thier sites.... and here you go acting like ya'll are Microsoft or IBM.
C'mon.... you guys should apologize for being - at the minimum - insensitive. If you dont want exiting employees to trash you - perhaps you should excercise a little bit of caution in how you treat em, hmmmm?
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