I never stressed out over firing someone, I always had documentation on hand, and they deserved to be fired. In five years at one hotel I went through 60 employees in a 9 person department no one was able to file for unemployment benefits when they quit or got fired, I did not lose any cases because I kept documentation on everything the employee did, good and bad. By keeping everything they couldn't argue that I only had bad stuff on them. For me it was harder to lay someone off.