Managing Sensitive Departure - Process Access and Timing

December 19, 2025 at 11:37 PMpeoplehigh

Situation

Managing departure of an employee being walked out in 2 weeks. Ensuring process continuity and controlling timing of communication.

Reasoning

Business continuity - ensuring processes auto-complete. Risk management - avoiding holiday conflicts in Mattermost. Careful about not telegraphing the departure prematurely.

Additional Context

Biggest concern is potential conflict in Mattermost during holidays. Two week timeline for departure.

Source

reflection

AI Confidence

80%

Related Context

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DM about departure management

slack

Can we block his access to the process and does the process auto-complete from here? We are walking him out in 2 weeks. Dont telegraph that.

Outcome

★★★★☆(4/5)

Terminated Chris Short after the holidays completed. So far no negative impact.

Recorded on January 12, 2026

Decision ID: aa1fd5e1-1049-4a34-94f0-5cecfb32184a