Upper management fires 4 employees from the same team without letting their manager know beforehand: ‘Had I been asked I could have pointed leadership to the actual underperformer on my team’

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Olivia Arocena • Writer and Editor
Jul 21, 2026 1:45 PM EDT

Force majeure

This is the typical discordance that emerges when we think about a problem by looking at the bigger picture rather than its every detail. We'd like to think that upper management takes every part of the company into consideration when they make big decisions like laying people off, but sometimes they don't, and they just want to cut down expenses. About this story in particular, all I can say is that upper management might be taking things into consideration this employee doesn't know about, given he just got his position a few months ago. I'd give upper management the benefit of the doubt, but something sits bad with me.

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  • man sitting on stairs with his head on his hands
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    The manager wondering what to do

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  • Employee under me fired without my knowledge

    Hey guys, I'm a new manager who has been in my position since January.
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  • Today something odd happened and I'd like a check on if this is typical or not. My workplace is
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  • making cuts and they elected to lay a bunch of people off today. However, on my team of 4 they laid
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  • off my most efficient employees. I was provided. no reason, and only informed after the fact.
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  • Had I been asked I could have pointed leadership to the actual underperformer on my team.
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  • I feel like this demonstrates exactly how much they respect and trust me that they would tell me nothing. Is it usual
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  • for people to be let go on your team without you as a manager being told or providing feedback if that is a good decision?
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  • man in suit sitting on the curb
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    One of the fired employees outside the office

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  • catsbuttes when upper management makes firing decisions they're not always concerned with the same metrics you are, the goal may not have had anything to do with actual work performance
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  • a team of professionals gathered around a table
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    Upper management making decisions without telling anyone

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  • sendmeyourdadjokes Everything is about $$$$ and unfortunately they dont value your input because theyre not making decisions based on performance. Welcome to management.
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  • 7HawksAnd Sounds like they just gave you the title to justify the pay band and don't respect you or your discipline (whatever it may be). Hold on to your job and search aggressively... you're next
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  • It’s hard to think an organization can go well if not everybody is organized and striving for a common goal, in that ideal scenario, people who make decisions like firing employees to cut down on ‘expenses’ would try to leave the best performing employees working on the team, but this company doesn’t seem to care much about that, and also not care about discussing their decisions strategically with anyone else. It doesn’t sound like the friendliest workplace, and maybe this employee should start looking for a way out, or maybe, just maybe, the solution would be to learn to be very adaptable and choose to make the best of what he’s got, always. What would the best career option be for you?

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