After manager gets fired, his last act is to tell his employee that they are next on the list to be fired, leaving employee unsure who to believe: 'I'm so confused'

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Nov 28, 2024 9:00 AM EST

When employees get fired from their jobs, they are granted the rare opportunity to reveal every single secret they learned about their colleagues while working. They have nothing to lose or gain, so they can do whatever they want with little to no consequences.

Say you knew one of your colleagues was about to get fired, and then you got fired yourself. You can choose to tell that colleague that they are about to be fired, so they can at least be better prepared for the day they will suddenly find themselves unemployed. The decision to tell them is completely up to you, having nothing to gain from it other than to help someone out. So, would you reveal that information, or would you have kept it to yourself and left without a word?

The manager in this Reddit story was faced with this exact decision after he got fired, and knowing what he knew, he decided to tell one of his employees that they were about to be fired as well. This left the employee unsure who to believe and what to do next…

Keep scrolling to read the full story. After you are done, check out this story of an employee who was contacted by a former boss a year after they quit, begging for their return.

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    My manager got fired. His last act was telling me I'm getting fired too.
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    A few days ago my manager was let go because of "job abandonment", he got pneumonia, got sick, and our higher ups used it as an excuse to get rid of him.
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    Now, he and I were in the exact same boat when I was off my - medication, my attendance. record went down the toilet because I kept showing up late. These are called "occurrences" in
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    my company. You get 3, it's a write up. 3 write ups and your fired. We both had 9. He was able to strike a deal with HR and our old (now gone, also thanks to same said higher up) district manager so that we wouldn't be
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    fired if we could get those occurrences down. An occurance goes away after 60 days. I'm not sure how many he had, but I went from 9 down to 6, and as of next week that number will go down to 5, by mid January, I'll have a clean slate.
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    Today, he came to pick up his stuff. He pulled me aside and told me that I was going to be next, and that the "secondary position" they're looking for, for my job, is actually my replacement. I basically have however long it
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    takes until they find my replacement. He claimed the real reason he got fired was because he had proof that a person who is higher up in our company was forging documents, said person is now in charge of our office, and
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    we, basically the grunts, are now all collectively terrified. I'm at an impasse and have no idea what to do. We have a meeting this Saturday to discuss all the changes going on. Do I
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    trust what my ex-boss said and start applying for other jobs? Do I ignore what he said and just continue to go about my work? I already asked about possible further training, which I was
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    informed to talk to the person who fired my ex-boss about further training. Right now I'd be less scared to talk to an actual grizzly bear. I'm so confused and scared.
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    out there. I figured it couldn't hurt to at least ask around. My work offers on the job training, however as of right now, there is no more training for me to take unless I wanted to transfer
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    departments or change jobs completely - there's no more room to grow. Upper management is promising they are working on more trainings for my position but there is no ETA on that.
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    We also had our meeting today, which left me even more confused. I was assigned to a project along with our assistant manager that is quite sizable - it will probably take at least a month to complete. They also
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    Igave me more responsibilities when it comes to our patients, so I don't understand why all this would be assigned to me with the intention just to get rid of me in a few months like my ex-boss described.
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    Speaking of my ex-boss, I have realized that he had one wild variable that I do not know. At the time our deal with HR was struck, we both had 9 occurances. Most of mine were from half-
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    occurances; basically, if you show up more than 5 minutes late, it's a half occurance, more than 10 minutes is a full occurance. I only live about 5 minutes away from our office, so most of my occurances were just from
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    clocking in at 7:52am instead of 7:45am for example. However I remember days where my manager, who had an hour drive, would show up 30 minutes late. I have no clue at the time he was fired how many occurances he
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    had, but I suspect they might have been more severe than mine. If I'm 7-8 mins late, sure that's not great, however I'm not the only one in the office who can do my job. If a manager shows up 30 mins late, then that
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    does disrupt our office quite significantly. My ex-boss had only been with the company for 4 months as well, I've been there for 1 year and 2 months as of this update. My ex-boss also tried to implement a lot of policy changes
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    as well, and tried to get them adopted company wide, which I'm not too sure the higher ups liked. After consulting with my boyfriend who did also used to be in the medical field in the exact same position as my ex-
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    boss, just at a different company, he told me that he sounded irresponsible. I do recall one time my ex-boss, myself, and a few other coworkers went out for drinks, where I stayed out until 1am when I had to be at work at
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    7am (not drinking as I'm always the designated driver, never got the taste for al hol), and my ex- boss drank heavily, was out until 3am, and showed up to work super hu..gover. Not sure if our higher ups knew about that or
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    not, but I did find out our security surveillance cameras have audio recordings so who knows. Anyway, that's my situation right now. I'm going to proceed with caution, but like I said, going to put some feelers out there just in case.
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    Darkgamer000 I would absolutely trust your now ex-boss, they're the only reason why you weren't already fired for breaking policy.
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    Cocacola_Desierto Top 1% Commenter They had nothing left to lose when they said this. Nothing to gain from telling you, either. I would immediately fix up the resume and begin applying, but continue to work as if I wasn't being fired.
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    Used_Mark_7911 Looking for a job is simply that - looking. There is no downside to updating your resume and putting some feelers out. Apply for jobs and interviewing doesn't obligate you to anything.
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