Screwballburling
Why fire the guy that's having a bad day at the office? Demote the person if you have to, sure.. These people have families to support and mortgages to repay.
Perhaps you should have read the post correctly by geh065, it would not just be "a bad day at the office" scenario. As for supporting families, that is now a reason to have substandard pilots on the flight deck!
Not really good bean counting is it, if you invest large amounts in a persons training then get rid of?
Better than having the loss of life, never mind lawsuits that might occur should said person cause an accident through poor ability.
Seems silly to me, not to mention downright cruel.
How long have you been in aviation? You sometimes have to be cruel to be kind and unfortunately the "cruelness" should have been carried out much earlier to be "kinder" in some cases.
There have been too many accidents recently where "ability" on the day has been an issue.