You are a manager with a five$-$year employee who did an excellent job for the first two years. After that though, he started to slip. Year three was average, year four was below average. In those two years, Joe kept promising to improve and he actually would for short periods. But it never lasted very long. During the past $12$ months, Joe's quality has slipped even further. Thinking that Joe probably should have been fired last year, you decide to terminate him. The day you start the appropriate paperwork you learn that Joe's husband of $20$ years has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has been given two years to live,

Is there an ethical dilemma, and if there is one, define the ethical decision faced by the manager.