God will provide the hug you lost.

Why didn't you drop her off at the mall so she could look for a job there?

"Reeny reeny reeny, I'm a little bitch" is all I heard. I've found that it's a lot easier to fire someone than to lay someone off. Quit your bitchin and thank her god that you still have a job- especially given your whiny ass nature.

I bet there was a McDonalds or Jack in the Box around. Thing is, she probably would've been hated by the boss there, too. Funny how she has made her plight of being out of a job sound like she is Job. How nice. Maybe Mars Hill is hiring. Not your problem, regardless.

It's nice to be compassionate and it speaks well of a person to feel so bad for another human being in a shitty situation, but, "I felt like I was the one who had been fired?" No, you didn't. You had somewhere to be the next day.

huh.....ya....
you know that 'stranger personals' ad just above this comments section? MorganAnn, the chic with the blue eyes/baby face?...........

she's hot.

Aw, I'm sorry. You did your best.

@growler-

She is hot! I can't stop staring at her gorgeous eyes!

@1
hahahahaha. oh yeah.

Yeah the joys of promotion, and then they ask you to let half of your co workers go.

I had to kill a bird yesterday. Just so it wouldn't continue to suffer. Its spine snapped like a birthday candle. I felt a lot like you do I think.

@13

I twisted the heads off of upwards of 100 spot shrimp yesterday. And they are delicious.

Best I,A in quite a while. Thanks.

Brett from Gillette Wy. Me and some good ol boys from out east here are going to come get you. Then we're gonna deport your punk ass right out back to the wind swept shitty rockies where you belong!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! Seriously, I hope you work for Seattle PD and that someone caps your ass on duty, that'd be worthy!

Wow, I can't believe the comments are trending anti-Anony. Was she supposed to quit her job in protest of former friend being ousted? It's quite possible the fired one was incompetent. They wanted her gone so badly they showed her door 3 days early. So anony brokered the deal? That's what you do if it's part of your job. Doesn't say she campaigned for former friend to get fired. I've been in the same position; tried really hard to prevent co-workers from losing their jobs, even my enemies. They didn't get it and didn't appreciate it.

Anonymous, you did your job, you still have a soul. More than a lot of people can say.

Whatever. That's my comment on this. God will provide: :)

It's that "God will provide" attitude that probably got her fired in the first place. Whenever I hear people says stuff like this I go into blank stare mode and walk away.

There's something to be said for compassion

@6 and @10:

Yes, not only amazing eyes, but she has that scared look, and the man's arm on her shoulder. I want to punch that guy she wants to get away from and protect her. Is that creepy?

While there are people who sometimes get fired through no fault of their own ... most of the people who are fired created their own problems. Your former friend was probably no different.

Feel sympathy for her ... and hope she learns something instead of putting everything in god's hands.

I think the fact that you're obscure about why the friendship fell apart is suspicious. Did it fall apart because she stopped caring about her job, or did it fall apart because maybe you both competed for a promotion, or maybe her boss obviously favors you in a way that's unfair.

Her boss is a ballsack for making you do it. That's HR's job or his job. He's a dick, and he's a bad manager for giving the job to you. But you as an employee could have said "dude.. you're the manager here, and if you don't want her working for you, you have to do something about it."

I wonder why you were even involved, particularly in light of the fact that you had a personal relationship with her. I wonder about a company that lets coworkers participate in what sounds like a witch hunt for this employee. I wouldn't have hugged you either, and I'd have given you the finger, if I didn't quit already.

Now that she's gone, you can resume sucking up to her boss, and hope that someone else doesn't do the same thing to you.

@26; ironically i haven't seen her pic since i posted that comment. somethings wrong. that guy you speak of is probably behind it.
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@17--it sounds like Anony is in HR, so it's probably her job to help organize people's severance packages and run interference in this kind of situation. That has nothing to do with initiating a termination.

you did what you had to do.

@30: Last I knew, her profile's blocked anyway. She probably needs more protection from random people on the Stranger sending her correspondence than whoever she was out with that night.

@33 ohhh ya. for sure.
but isn't it more fun this weeks I,ANON?

yes.

Meh, I have co-workers who're total ass-holes. Most are not, but a couple of them are hope-less bags of dicks. They show up late, take ciggy breaks all the live long day, take long lunches, and leave early after effing up every job you give them. Then when they get called on it they bitch and whine about how corporate and the boss is out to get them. Sorry, Anon, but your relationship with this twat ended long before she got canned. Probably when you started succeeding and she kept failing. She had plenty of chances to improve, but blew them all. That's not your fault...although I'm sure in her twisted, empty little head she's blaming you, the boss, the corporation for her failure instead of admitting she's the one who sucks.

Nice, big art. Thank you!

This is the kind of sackless, duplicitous psycho-torture that made me bail the fuck out of corporate employment almost twenty years ago. Her boss may very well be a toxic, spineless puke for making her fire her former friend, but there are soooo many of them in that white-collar hell that it hardly bears mentioning. Bail. Get a skilled trade, or work for small or local businesses. It's no guarantee, but smaller companies don't have enough vertical space for people to really distance themselves from the shit they create, and so *generally* people tend to be a bit more careful about where and how they make it.

You did good. Her performance or attitude got her fired, not you. You did the right thing. You did your job and helped her out as best you could.

She probably "couldn't get away from you fast enough" because she was emotional, upset and consumed with her own thoughts on the matter. Not because she was set out to deny you a 'hug'.

A good cry is healthy. Bet she had one too (that or a few shots at the bar).

did god provide her a buss pass.........gotta love ridin the shame train

Actually, you showed a lot of compassion and professionalism even after she turned on you...

We don't know why their friendship turned sour. Perhaps IA cheated with the friend's boyfriend or something... or perhaps the friend was an incompetent ballsack, we just don't know. Still, what a bad place to be in. I feel for ya, IA.