'Promoted at 12, laid off by 2 PM': Company leader publicly congratulates worker who has already been fired

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  Company higher-up sits at desk looking at his laptop with worried expression after sending awkward message to large group chat.

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• Just showcases how disconnected the system is with their employees

  
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  The big boss here is congratulating a worker on his promotion, noting that he's solved complicated problems and led a successful team. He notes a bunch of things this worker did that were helpful for the company. 11 people reacted with supportive emojis… too bad this guy was fired just 2 short hours later. 

• And, as congratulatory messages rolled in, this person had to say...

  
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  That unfortunately, they were no longer working at that company. 

• This is a no-win situation! 

  The boss clearly wanted to show support to a worker whose promotion would've been a positive for the company. Chances are that this guy had no say in the hiring and firing process anyway! That's often something that HR teams handle. But still the overall optics are just bad. There's no way around it. It makes this boss look super out of touch. And it gives the impression that he's giving some kind of weird backhand compliment to the worker who has just been given the boot. 

  It's odd that this worker would still have access to a Slack channel (at least, I think that's what this is? I have no idea what that one robot in the chat is talking about). But with the way this company is running, a lack of communication about removing previous workers from the channel might have just fallen through the cracks. 

  Best wishes to this worker, of course. They're acting extremely professionally to an extremely unprofessional situation. 

  As for the boss? He should probably write out an apology ASAP. That would also be a good time for him to echo support to the remaining employees, who have probably got a low sense of morale at the moment. Losing your coworker friends to layoffs is a huge disapointment… now would be the time for the boss to say something, rather than letting rumors fly across the office. 

• People couldn't believe this

  
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• This is rough

  
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  You never can tell which internal decisions will affect you. Even your direct managers might not know about it! And that's how you end up with situations like this. 

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  2 coworkers put their work to the side as they laugh at message from higher-up to recently-fired worker.

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  Worker cracks up laughing in the middle of a meeting after reading group messages to a now-fired worker

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