re: CEO responds to 'painful' video of employee who went viral after being fired

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This is 100% the standard in most industries. HR is supposed to be trained to ensure they don’t say anything that can hurt the company, and this one did a poor job. It’s usually cleaner if you have the HR person handle all of the talking in a meeting like this.

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It depends. In my experiences I have had to fire employees for performance issues but with an HR person ( mgr) present. Employees fired for policy violations like drug test, no shows, etc have been handled pretty much by HR alone.