If you have read the previous issues, you probably know by now that the answer is "No, you are not a good person for doing it". This is an issue of ethics. Ayn Rand showed in her writings that the only ethics that works in this world is rational selfishness. The most important person for you, which you owe something to, whose welfare should be your primordial concern is yourself. You made two mistakes: 1. You dared to define what is good for others - when you decided that it is better for them to be fired after and not before Christmas; 2. You thought about them first instead of yourself. For you, your company comes first. Your duty to yourself is to keep the company running well and get good results. It is the only way the company can grow healthy, and only as a result of this you will hire more people all around the year, not just around holidays. If you think of the people first and fire employees according to the 'number of children' criterion (shoe size, age, sex, race, skin color, pubic hair color and all other legal or illegal criteria also qualify) and not by the only valid criterion which is the employee's competence, the ones that remain won't be able to insure the success of the company in the fastest time, and will probably lose their jobs anyway sooner or later. And when your company goes bankrupt, if you say something like "Well, at least I provided jobs for needy people for so many years!" I will be here to say to you "You are wrong! It is precisely this philosophy of need which caused all your employees to lose their jobs".
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