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Then the best advice which I or anyone else can give you, is to keep your mouth shut about this until Monday, when you hand her the letter. Don’t show anything abnormal, at all. No tension, no special care or kindness, no hints, no avoidance, no wistfulness, no forced humor, no warnings to associates, no suggestions about a “special day” or “significant event”. Act as if you expect she is going to be part of your group of the next 20 years or more. There are more “don’t” advisories in this situation, the “do” advisories. Don’t try to “make it up to her” afterward, by offering to help find a new job or help her move out or taking her to lunch. This is no time to show personal friendship or to be supportive. You are a professional, at the first level of management. You are carrying out a decision made by others, and already cast into stone.
