My work let one of my coworkers go today. He was one of my friends and ally's. I'm heart broken. I knew about it since yesterday since I had to prepare his final paychecks but today is awful. I told him how sorry I was (luckily I wasn't the one who had to let him go because I don't think I could have). He did his self evaluation for the company and asked me to forward it to the owners, so I did. I was like, maybe outgoing feedback is still good feedback? I felt bad because it was a variety of factors that led to him being let go. He is a good employee and a wealth of knowledge. The economy just sucks for one and he was sort of sidelined by the GM. He could easily get a job with our competitor but I worry about his age even though age discrimination isn't supposed to happen. He is too young to collect social security but he's old enough (59, 60) that it might be a black mark against him. Who wants to put two years of training into someone for them to leave in 5 years? I just feel horrible.