Entitled boss sends company-wide email about why he fired his former employee 4 months prior, employee claims it's entirely false: ‘He has far too much influence’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Mar 27, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

When you're fired from a job, you hope you'll never have to relive any moment from that dark period (unless you were pushing buttons to get fired on purpose). Losing your main source of income is devasting and traumatizing, especially in the current job market, where you don't know when you'll be employed next. If you were constantly criticized and micromanaged by poor-performing upper management, getting fired is likely a blessing in disguise. You can always find a new job (at some point), but you cannot add more time to your body clock—and we all know time is as valuable as gold.

In this next story, an employee is fired, and four months later, they learn that their boss sent a company-wide email discussing and detailing every reason why they were fired. The boss chalked it up to poor leadership skills, but the employee has stellar feedback from other colleagues to oppose this narrative. Now, the employee is wondering if they should match their former boss's energy. I'm here for it. What do you think? Scroll to read the rest of the story.

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  • There could be many reasons this boss felt the need to send a company-wide email to detail the former employee's misgivings, but none of those reasons would make sense in the four-month timeline. There is no logical, non-petty reason that the boss would be sending out an email four months after an employee's departure, so commenters suggest other coworkers might be dropping out and leaving the company. This seems plausible, especially if the egotistical boss has a track record of patting himself on the back.

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  • "Four months after he fired me, my former boss sent the team a 1500-word message explaining why. Should I respond?"

    About five months ago I was fired from a leadership position at a non-profit organisation.
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  • About a month ago, my former boss (effectively the director of the organisation) sent a 1500+ word message to the entire team (many of whom are still my friends), explaining why I was fired and didn't show it to me - until last week.
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  • A generous reading of his behaviour: he sent the message to the team last month because he thinks doing so will help create a culture of trust and mutual understanding in the
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  • organisation, and he offered to share it with me a month later because he thought it would be helpful and interesting to me to see his perspective.
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  • A cynical reading of his behaviour: he shared the message with the team and then with me because people in (and out of?) the organisation were confused about why he fired me,
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  • they were asking him questions in a way he felt undermined his authority, and he wanted to impose his narrative on the organisation. (I have been very
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  • open with telling people in and out of the organisation my perspective on what happened, and I know this has got back to him.)
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  • The message claims my leadership style was too hierarchical and disempowering, and it was harming the growth and performance of the grassroots campaign I was responsible for. He included very
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  • specific criticisms of my behavior, including how I ran meetings and interacted with team members. He also mentioned consulting multiple people about my performance before letting me go.
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  • I have what in my eyes is compelling evidence contradicting many of these claims - including positive feedback from my team and volunteers. This feedback paints a completely different picture of my leadership.
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  • I haven't replied to his message at all yet, but have spoken with some current friends who still work at the organisation. While I think most people think he
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  • handled my firing badly, my former boss has quite a lot of support in the organisation still. (In my view he has far too much influence.) I'm not sure if I should:
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  • 1. Respond with a point-by- point rebuttal of his original message 2. Criticise his decision to share this message with the team (considering how personal it is, its length, and him sharing it four months. after firing me)
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  • 3. Share the positive feedback I received to counter the narrative 4. Ignore it completely and move on 5. Something else?
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  • And if I do respond to him, should I also respond to the friends who saw his original message? Should I publish something openly? It's
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  • worth saying that I'm now working at a different organisation in the same movement, and it's a fairly small - world lots of professional and personal overlap. How would you handle this situation? Thanks!
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  • robertva1 I suspect other people are jumping ship. Just ignore it
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  • Glass-Hedgehog 3940 Since he fired you there is no reason to reply. It's pretty poor taste and unprofessional on his part to rant about it to the company and only makes him look like a 1. If he thinks comparing your style of leadership to his is productive then he's mistaken.
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  • Joey_BagaDonuts57 Hit him where it hurts most. Pilfer his people, squeeze his resources, one by one.
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