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There is a big difference between the for-profit and non-profit world. I have a lot of friends who work for non-profits. If you are fired there, you almost certainly suck as a human being. There's a distinction, though, between being laid off and fired.
I will never fire someone in the for-profit world. I just don't believe in it. It does mean that I failed as an administrator and, more importantly, a motivator. If you can't do the job, then you can't be here, pure and simple. The few times that has happened (I'm a pretty good interviewer) I have found people other opportunities. It's a small world, and people that are fired invariably remember the incident with bad feelings. I would prefer not to be bad-mouthed by someone or have someone decide that they're out to "get me". If I can find them another job that pays about the same with less stress, they usually see it as a favor and that now they owe me. I've placed failed assistants at clients, with underwriters and (in a case of supreme incompetence) with a finance company. They're still in the industry, and they all think that I'm a good guy that just wanted to help them. In reality, they were in my way.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
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