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Getting fired from a job is never fun, but it is even worse when your company tries to lie to people you used to work with about what happened.

What would you do if you got fired, but then you heard that your managers were saying that you actually quit? How would you handle it if your former managers were upset that you told people the truth?

That is what happened to the guy in this story, and when he told his former coworkers the truth about what happened, they got upset because his honesty caused drama at work. Now his former managers are trying to find out where he is applying for work, but he doesn’t want to tell them.

This is an awful situation, and he needs to try to keep his job search to himself. Read through the full story below, and see what you think he should do.

My most recent company fired me after my 2-week vacation, and when I said goodbye to my coworkers, management freaked out.

I was recently fired, which came with a lot of drama, but at least I thought it was over.

Unfortunately, it isn’t.

What happened was when they fired me on Monday, my first day back from our agreed, set in months advanced, 2-week vacation. I told people that I was working with, training with, mentoring with, or simply talked to that I was let go.

Some people begged the question as to why. Most I told them I was just let go.

It isn’t like people wouldn’t figure out that he wasn’t working there anymore.

Well somehow this backfired all against me.

One of the former coworkers I was talking to let me know that next time, I should be more quiet when I get fired. This is because it seems that I overshared the day I was let go, because I reached out to like 10 people. And it spread to people that I don’t even talk to.

Apparently, when I told people I was fired, everybody started getting worried that the company is downsizing and preparing for layoffs.

There has to be a reason why people are worried about layoffs.

I’ve had this hunch for a couple of months now, as well. We’ve had 2 other people in my same role fired in the past couple of months, and it caused a stir.

Well, it seems that multiple people brought this to management’s attention.

So HR, upper-management, brought in multiple departments, including interns, into the meeting room, and it got packed.

They were lying to the other employees.

I guess they shouldn’t have picked the popular guy. Just kidding, don’t mean to be cocky.

Anyways, it looks like I disrupted a narrative that I quit on my own volition, which was sent via email the day after my termination.

I told multiple people before then that I was fired, so it looks like they were lying.

Damage control.

Burning bridges can be dangerous. You never know who you will run into down the road.

The lady I was talking to told me that one of my closest friends at work was very vocal and defending me at the meeting, but the lady just kept quiet as our supervisor stared at her.

The lady I was talking to told me that I ended up burning bridges with the company, and that next time I shouldn’t let so many people know I was fired.

On top of that, she did tell me our supervisor (now my former supervisor) wants to know where I go from here for employment. She told me that she wants to know to congratulate me, and that she will also let our supervisor know so he can also congratulate me.

Sounds very suspecious to me.

Don’t tell anyone where you are applying, or where you get hired.

It’s like I cannot get a clean break, even after I have technically separated from this company.

It wasn’t always this toxic, at least when I was there. It just got progressively worse overtime, and I lost a lot of motivation.

But now I am a little paranoid they’re still going after me.

He needs to stop talking to anyone that he doesn’t trust completely. The former managers may have it out for him now, but they will forget about him eventually.

Let’s see what the people in the comments on Reddit have to say about the situation.

This commenter is exactly right.

Don’t tell anyone about future job prospects.

It was a great bridge to burn, though.

This commenter says he doesn’t owe his old company anything.

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He didn’t do anything wrong, but he still needs to protect himself.

The bridge is burned; don’t look back. He has every right to tell his former coworkers whatever he wants, but he does want to protect himself.

It is good to keep in mind that his old bosses have it out for him.