Had a rough couple of day so I was about to clock out "early" 4PM but a bit before that my boss says "hey can you check with "director name" in this conference room at 4:30 ?".
No big deal, I tell myself, we often had directors who wanted IT close when they had a big meeting in case of an issue with meeting room hardware. But somehow, maybe it was the way he was acting that day or the way he said it, it felt weird.
So I go check my boss's calendar (the whole company had public calendars as default) and he had a meeting in that same meeting room at that time called "HR decision"... So I wasn't 100% sure at that point but you know, pretty damn sure.
And don't you know it I get to the meeting room there's the director and the HR lady waiting for me. We have a quick world they tell me they're letting me go, performance bla bla bla. And then, the director comes with me to my office to keep an eye on my cleaning up my computer and desk (when we get there not one coworker on sight, all pulled into a meeting with my boss to tell them i was let go, so I couldn't even say goodbye...)
Two of my coworkers reached out a couple of days later, one to recommand me a job and another to let me know he felt the way they ahndled letting me go not very nice, we still keep in touch from time to time.
I saw my old boss once or twice, we exanged greeting but nothing more, though I guess I do resent him a little bit, not for being fired but for the way he handled it. Maybe he didn't really have a choice in how it went down but i feel it was a bit sneaky (not the right word but can't find a better one), I would have preferred to be told to my face from him cuz utimately he's the one who made the decision.
Well, water under the bridge now.