Moral thread...

[LoopyLou1981]

Moral consensus...

• Company fires your team member based on poor performance
• company mentioned this 3 months ago and you fought colleague’s corner and problem went away
• slightly fluffy comment about colleague made again
• colleague let go.
• Called in so they could thank you for being a decent boss and how much you’d helped him
• now left with no holiday cover and a seriously pissed off (2nd) team member
• quit and explain to kids that they won’t see Europe (let alone further afield) for 10 years
• stick with it and toe the line
• shout the odds. Make my point and probably be next in line

Stick with it whilst looking for another job.

Keep your head down, but look for something else

Are you going to recruit a replacement?
Was the sacked colleague really bad at their job?

Surely the most sensible course of action here is to recruit to the vacant post ASAP?

Get an agency temp in?

Don't throw the towel in and make your kids lose out.

Wish my biggest problem was that my kids "wouldn't see Europe" if I didn't have a job 🙄

Sounds like you can afford to quit, so on that basis why not?

I don't really see the moral aspect here?

I can see a lot of problem with your "company" - they shouldn't be removing people from your team without discussing it with you, and its impact on the rest of your team etc. All of those are just poor performance by the "company", so unless the actual sacking was in some way unjust (done by an individual due to personal grievance / discrimination) it's just a performance problem.

The solutions that make more sense to look at is addressing that - ie the poor management by the people who impacted your team and ignored you. Impossible to say what that would be without more information, but it might be that you talk to them / their managers about your team is now in trouble due to lack of resources and you can't now do your job due to lack of holiday etc.

However I guess you're actually relatively junior in the organisation hierarchy where that sort of discussion isn't likely (as otherwise you would have been consulted) in which case leaving may well be a reasonable option, and I'm not sure why you'd be so sure of not working anywhere else?