Firing IT personnel can be tricky, if not downright nightmarish. In one account, a network admin, upon hearing the news, replied that he built the network and would be taking it with him. Scary, indeed. After all, “these are the employees who hold the keys to the kingdom, who can copy confidential information with a few keystrokes, who can lock everyone out of the network — or nuke it entirely,” Lisa Schmeiser explains in How to fire an IT person. But our four-phase approach, beginning with plan for damage control, can help you let one go under less-than-optimal circumstances. Technology Industry