I have had the situation where someone isn’t working out and have had to let them go.
A good business person won’t ruin the career of an employee so the process is that they are given notice and move on to another job.
I suspect this has happened since she’s not been invited to the join the Perry or Romney staff.
There is usually more than meets the eye when an employee leaves a successful venture.
JMHO
Correct. I've been on both sides of that equation. The most recent was about a decade ago when I thought the employer was being terribly unfair and just shedding an older worker. Still, I took the severance package offered and gave them the resignation letter. They gave me a good letter of recommendation and I landed a comparable job two months later.
In the end, there is no point in working where you aren't wanted, no matter how stupid the reasons.
When I was in management in a previous life and had to let people go who were decent people but just not performing to expectations, I always had a nice letter of recommendation prepared to hand them at the exit interview. Not one of those people ever came back to haunt the organization. It was only the jerks who got shown the door for gross malfeasance.