Direction: In a large company, (74) people is about as common as using a gun or a switch-blade to (75) an argument. As a result, most managers have little or no experience of firing people, and they find it emotionally traumatic; as a result, they often delay the act interminably, much as an unhappy spouse will prolong a bad marriage. And when the firing is done, it’s often done clumsily, with far worse side effects than are necessary.
Do the world-class software organizations have a different way of firing people? No, but they do the deed swiftly, humanely, and professionally.
The key point here is to view the fired employee as a “failed product” and to ask how the process (76) such a phenomenon in the first place.
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Correct Option: A
The passage talks about firing and questions the way in which it is done in large companies. The author thinks that firing is done ‘clumsily’, in a way it should not be done.
We have to fill the word in ‘firing people is about as common as using a gun or a switch-blade to [82] an argument’. So, in this argument, we can clearly see that it is referring to finishing off an argument or ending it, because if you use a gun to deal with the argument, then it means you are just ending or settling the case ‘permanently’.
