Boss hints that coworker is about to be fired, coworker is racked with guilt wondering if they should say something: ‘She just bought a new home’ – FAIL Blog

Would you tell your coworker if they were about to get fired? 

Loyalty is an interesting thing in the workplace. It’s important to demonstrate loyalty to your team and to your company, and that’s how you get rewarded for your efforts, but your ultimate loyalty is to yourself. You don’t want to compromise your values just for a sense of corporate pride. This will never bring you the rewards that you desire it to. Sometimes, though, over the course of a job, your allegiances are tested. Maybe your boss is wondering what you would do if a roadblock hit your path, and wants to test your ability to navigate it. These types of sneaky tests, though, are usually not a good idea. It’s better to be up front and honest about your goals, no matter what they are. You can’t expect people to read your mind and intuit everything that’s going through it. The boss in this story, though, put their employee in a pretty awkward situation when she laid out one of these loyalty tests. 

Sometimes you happen upon a piece of information that you wish you hadn’t received. You weren’t looking for it, but there it is in your path, just waiting to mess everything up. You didn’t choose to be in this gauntlet, but you landed in it nonetheless, and now you have to deal with the consequences. That’s what happened to this employee, in a story that they shared to the work subreddit. Their boss did some pretty threatening hinting that one of their team was about to be let go. The subject of this termination had not been notified, though, and the employee was left wondering if they had done the right thing by saying nothing. It’s not easy to sit on a piece of information that you know will mess up someone else’s life. They were left wondering just what to do, and the internet provided some answers.