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It really does a number on someone’s confidence when they get let go from a job…and they never get a good explanation of what happened.

Sure, they might get a run of the mill excuse, but if you don’t find out the true reasons you got fired from a position, it can really weigh on your mind.

That’s what this guy is dealing with and years later, he’s still trying to figure out what went wrong.

Let’s take a look at what he had to say.

Was asked to leave after 4 years because of office politics… still trying to make sense of it.

“I was asked to leave my job recently after spending almost 4 years there, and honestly, I’m still trying to process it.

The frustrating part is that it never really felt like my work was the problem. Over time, there was a lot of office politics, and I started feeling like I was getting caught up in things that had very little to do with my actual work. Eventually, I was asked to leave.

At the time, I thought, okay, maybe this is just what happens sometimes. It obviously hurt after giving almost four years to the company, but I was trying to accept it and move on.

This wasn’t true…

But sometime later, I came to learn that my manager has apparently been telling people that she *tried to stop me from leaving*, but that nobody could stop me because I had already made up my mind and wanted to leave.

And honestly, that part really messes with me.

Because that is not how I remember things happening at all.

I know what I experienced, and hearing a completely different version being told to other people is painful. It almost feels like the story is being changed so that the situation looks like it was entirely my decision.

What makes it even more confusing is that I later found out that one of my seniors was also removed from the company. I have no idea why, and as far as I know, nobody really knows the actual reason.

So now I keep wondering whether there was a lot happening behind the scenes that I simply wasn’t aware of.

It’s all a big mystery…

I don’t know how or why some people can do things like this to another person and then just carry on as if nothing happened.

Maybe I’m being too emotional about it, but sometimes I genuinely wonder, how do people sleep peacefully at night knowing they may have seriously affected someone else’s life?

After four years, I never expected things to end like this. I’m trying to tell myself that maybe leaving was ultimately for the best, and that I shouldn’t waste too much energy trying to understand people or situations that I may never get answers about.

But right now, it still hurts.

Has anyone else experienced something similar – being pushed out and then hearing a completely different version of events being told to other people afterward?

How did you deal with it?”

Here’s what folks had to say about this on Reddit.

This person weighed in.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an employee who was denied a raise for “not being dedicated enough,” but then went on to discover what was really going on behind the scenes.

And another reader shared their thoughts.

How perplexing!

And you can understand why he’s so frustrated about this.

I have a feeling he’ll never get the answers he’s looking for.

It sounds like he got fired for no reason at all…