‘[She] doesn’t know the new hire is actually her replacement’: CEO makes employee help hire her struggling coworker’s replacement, while that coworker has no idea she’s fired once the traveling boss returns – FAIL Blog

That gap put someone else in an impossible spot. Sitting across from a coworker daily, fielding questions about why hiring is ramping up, and giving technically true but deliberately incomplete answers isn’t comfortable for anyone with a conscience. Delivering termination news genuinely isn’t a coworker’s job to hand off, so staying quiet wasn’t wrong exactly. But there’s a difference between staying out of someone else’s responsibility and getting pulled into the information gap that makes their blindside possible.