Update: 'My boss told me I was fired as an April fools joke': Boss flips out when employee won't come back to work after joke-firing

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    My boss told me I was fired as soon as I got to work, laughed and walked off.
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    I spent the next 2 hours shutting down my station, and packing my stuff. Even destroyed my client list (mine was the largest in the branch).
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    When I got home about 3 hours later, he called me.. Boss- "Hey Z! Where are you at? I Can't find you in the office."
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    Me-" you fired me. Why the would I be at work?" Boss-" it's April fools! It was a joke! Get back In here."
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    Me-" no. You clearly said I am fired. I'll be taking unemployment for a few months, and filing a complaint with HR."
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    He lost his on him. It's not and I just hung up funny, and I'm taking a vacation/riding the wrongful termination train. He has called me 10 times, and I think HR is calling me now.
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    Edit: I'm already getting DMs calling me a lazy parasite. Love it. Edit 2: I kept my physical copy of the client list and destroyed the digital on-site copy. Edit 3: RIP my DMs. This post exploded in the hour it has existed. I'm trying to reply to people.
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    Edit 4: Jeeze, thousands of replies and hundreds of DMs. I'm gonna fall asleep soon. I have a remote meeting with HR tomorrow, and I'll also be talking with a few other people in the company too. I'll post an update soon. Stay safe.
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    Edit 5: (12:27 central/13:27 eastern) I'll make an update in about 4 hours, apparently a chunk of my coleagues walked out after he yelled at a few of then last night. Boss has been put on leave. He also sent me no less than 72 messages via text, and 13 voice mails. All of which I'm too lazy to look at atm. HR/another department lead have been talking with me since 7:30am. Update soon.
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    UPDATE: My boss told me I was fired as an April fools joke. Hi there all. I'm finally able to update the post from yesterday.
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    Alright, so after cooling off, talking with HR, some other team leads and a lawyer, for several hours last night and today... It looks like Micheal is losing his position in the company, and has been put on leave. He's being replaced by somebody from my team, the other people he ran off are coming back and getting a raise for staying.
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    I am being shuffled to another team, getting a 5.15 dollar raise, 4 bonus weeks of vacation (starting yesterday. I need a break, going to use them all right now, since the company is already doing some rearranging and such.).
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    The team I am getting I will also be secondary lead on, and is a team I've been trying to get onto for 3 years (much better bonuses and clientel.) So I get a promotion and a raise. The new boss is far less of a hassle, and she is a lot more laid back. She went to great effort to get me to join the team she knew I wanted onto today and yesterday, and gave me a lot more than I wanted.
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    Michael looks like he's fired from what I can tell, he has a history of issues, but he got his severance from what I heard. My coworkers from the previous team look to have collectively complained, and used it as leverage for raises. I think they will get em too.
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    Its weird how fast this all turned around, but I think I'll be in a better place for it financially. Some of the advice I got from here helped a bit, and I wanted y'all to know that. I'll drop a few updates, I'm still doing some coordinating and stuff atm. Looks like I'll be taking my old client list with me, and merging it with a starter client list they want to give me when I move into the new seat.
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    Edit: I also got a performance/goals bonus I was supposedly supposed to get in February, not sure what happened there. Edit 2: to cover a couple issues in the comments. This manager has had a series of issues, and I just found out some may have been harassment claims in the past. The guy wasn't fired because of me, but because of just the damage he did to the team in 1
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    day, and a history of issues. Also my employer operates at near 100% capacity/functionality 7 days a week with team overlaps. We can't shut down without problems. Keep being awesome.

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