'They were planning to fire him': Employee has manager fire them before the manager themself is fired

Throughout the course of your working life, there will be people you just gel with—people who operate on the same wavelength as you and with whom coexistence and cooperation are effortless. There will be others who you just can't seem to get along with—the antithesis of yourself—like a foil that some cunning author wrote into the narrative of your life.

But this first group, these people who are a cut from the same cloth as yourself, become the best coworkers and even lifelong friends. When one of you leaves your job, meaning that you'll no longer spend 40 hours a week together, it can feel like the end of an era–like things will never be the same again. Continuing on with the job without them feels like an impossible task and may mean that, eventually, the other will leave too.

One has to imagine that this is the level of closeness and camaraderie that this worker had with their manager, who managed their small team. One day, while the manager was away on leave, the powers that be called the rest of the team in for a meeting, telling them that someone had lost their key and the locks needed to be replaced. It was obvious that something was afoot; the close-knit team was able to easily confirm amongst themselves that no one had lost a key. Reading between the lines, this worker approached their manager to warn them that their head might be on the chopping block come their return to work on Monday. Together, the two hatched a cunning plan.

See the story as it was originally shared on Reddit's r/ProRevenge subreddit by Redditor u/LS-CRX below. Next, see this worker who was laid off and then asked to return to work three months later.

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Posted by Brad Dickson