The biggest injustice of being fired when you were very important, is that often no one even knows that your absence is responsible for the fact that a bunch of stuff is going wrong. Maybe your direct manager and coworkers will think “Oh, shouldn’t have fired them!”, but there’s no chance that upper management will be aware or hold anyone responsible for letting you go.
I was running a VBA macro I made in Excel at an old job that did the work of three people. I told my boss where to find my files when I left (shouldn’t have, I was young), but from what I hear he never bothered to look into my old work at all. They just hired three extra hands after I left. No one realized he cost the company $200,000+ a year or held him accountable.
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The biggest injustice of being fired when you were very important, is that often no one even knows that your absence is responsible for the fact that a bunch of stuff is going wrong. Maybe your direct manager and coworkers will think “Oh, shouldn’t have fired them!”, but there’s no chance that upper management will be aware or hold anyone responsible for letting you go.
I was running a VBA macro I made in Excel at an old job that did the work of three people. I told my boss where to find my files when I left (shouldn’t have, I was young), but from what I hear he never bothered to look into my old work at all. They just hired three extra hands after I left. No one realized he cost the company $200,000+ a year or held him accountable.