Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Sometimes some persons excel to the point where they need to be fired.

You have outgrown what we do here. You are much more capable than we need. You are fired.

Those words don’t make sense. If someone has improved and improved, we want them to stay with us, right? Perhaps not. Consider a person who does the lighting and sound for a small theater group. They are creative. They learn the current technologies. They imagine the next technologies. They can do much more than they are doing now, but they need more and better equipment to express their bountiful creativity.

We don’t have more and better stuff for them. They need to go to Las Vegas or Hollywood or someplace where the resources are available to match their ability.

You’re good. You’re too good for us. Move on and move up. You’re fired. Now go and grow.

Doesn’t make sense at first, but it makes sense later.