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Here's how not to do it...

Experience 1:

- Start deactivating their accounts a week before giving the news.

- Give 3 days severance pay and act like it's not just them not wanting to figure out how to cut 3 days out of a paycheck.

- Have the manager escort the employee to HR without a word, and then leave and let HR deal with the hard part.

Experience 2:

- Tell the employee over email while they're on vacation, and then never bother to have any follow-up in any form.