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==== What your LinkedIn post should look like ====

No names. No back-slapping. No “I cried while typing this” performative shite.

Title: Handling Layoffs with Humanity

Sometimes the hardest part of leadership isn’t strategy or growth. It’s making decisions that affect real people during the worst moments of their lives.

This week I had to let someone go while they were dealing with personal tragedy. There is no playbook for that.

What I learned:
* Compassion is not a policy, it’s behaviour.
* Silence is better than platitudes.
* Generosity costs less than regret.

If you’re in a position of responsibility, remember that the person on the other side of the table isn’t a “resource”. They’re a human being having the worst month of their life.

Do better than the bare minimum.

There you go. Still blunt. Still real. And you don’t come off like a cunting grief-vampire harvesting engagement from a funeral.

If you want, tell me the jurisdiction and I’ll bolt on the legal bits so this doesn’t explode in your face later like a badly-wired Sharjah fuse box.