Well, that was unpleasant.

[rivka]

We fired her. We said that it was a bad fit and not improving. She denied ever saying anything about the devil, recast the God story to make Alex's comment about the emperor of China the beginning of the conversation, and predicted that when we try with someone else we will find that Alex simply adjusts poorly to being left and none of this was her fault.

I can't think of anywhere else that Alex would have heard of the devil. We're very careful about media exposure, and her classmates all come from secular families.

We gave her a week of severance pay.

I feel surprisingly crappy for someone who just did the right thing for her child.

Comments

[ororo.livejournal.com]

I think feeling crappy is normal in a situation like this. You fired someone, and having been on both ends of that, can say it sucks for both parties. If you're feeling crappy because you felt you used poor judgement in hiring her in the first place, take it easy on yourself. There's no way you could have picked this up from a couple of interviews.

Hugs if you want 'em.