re: Have you ever physically fired someone?

There is no way I could remember all the people I have fired. Some I looked forward to and some I dreaded. There will always be one that hurt me to the core. I recruited and hired a guy away from a competitor, 3 months later I had to let him go because we went off shore for all of our product. Him and his wife had just had their first child. I could barely look him in the eye when I called him into the break room to tell him. I let 30+ people go that day and he is the only one I remember from that day. That was 15 years ago.