Losing your job must be a horrible experience, whatever the circumstances, but finding out from the media must be up there with the very worst ways to learn of your imminent departure.
While in most industries you can expect any such process to be handled with confidentiality and respect before any news is released, that is sadly not always the case in football - and most certainly is not what we saw this week with Slaven Bilic.
It was a disgrace how West Brom treated his dismissal. It was disrespectful and the latest reminder that football, for some reason, feels it can operate in a different way to the rest of the world.