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You can't fire someone for cause just because your money losing business ran out of money.

Firing for cause is when the employee screwed up, not when the CEO did.




This is true. “For cause” is “employee fucked up real bad [theft, harassment, etc]”, but many people think it means the plain English reading of “was individually underperforming” which would be a performance-related termination but not a “for cause” termination.

IMO, it’s dumb HR/Legal lingo.




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