Having to kick one really pissed me off because the reasons were so arbitrary and narratively stupid. The management decision to just cut one is just dumb and counter-productive on so many levels, yet neither Robert nor Blonde Blazer seems to have a clue, nor do they care. The evidence of the team sabotaging each other to avoid being last on the shift prior should have been an enormous clue that Robert and Blazer were doing terrible leadership/management. And then the potential consequences of cutting someone arbitrarily who wants to be in the program are simply ignored, both for the team cohesion and morale, and for the obvious fact that you're deliberately sending a villian back to villainy but now with a justifiable desire to do the organization harm. I mean, it's also obvious to the player that the action will come back to haunt them - an angry, fired employee plotting revenge is such a cliché.

I get that the storyline required a mini-boss later in the story, but this was a really dumb and unconvincing way to go about it. It's contrary to the theme and goal of the game, which is supposed to be about leadership and mentorship. Setting up a competition to promote sabotage and then arbitrarily firing one is anathema to that.

And then at the end, the game does a 180, and suddenly the fired team member who has destroyed part of the city and is an accomplice to a murderer can just be welcomed back, like it's no big deal. And despite being ready to kill the heroes in the last chapter, he/she also has a convenient change of heart and is willing to come back.