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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/BobVilasBeard on 2026-08-18 18:39:43+00:00.

First off, this is not an anti-boss post; it's an anti-company post. I know most bosses suck, but this guy was awesome. He had my back all the time, he genuinely valued my input, and he pushed for the kind of monetary compensation for me that allowed me to make significant life decisions. So I'm not posting this particular thing to shit on middle management.

What's less awesome is that he got laid off recently because it was decided that people in our department could no longer work in certain offices. In other words, this guy a) did not work remotely, and b) commuted to an office that employs tons of other people from the same company, and c) worked a job that does not require anyone to be in person to begin with, but because he happens to work out of this one specific building, the company decided, "Fuck this guy in particular."

(This is the part where there's probably going to be speculation that he got fired for a different reason I don't know about. I suppose anything's possible, but it just so happens everybody who was laid off was laid off for the same reason, except they worked in different buildings. So I don't buy the idea that he did something specifically to get axed.)

I'm pissed off. They were perfectly fine hiring him to work in the office that he'd been working in for close to a decade, but all of a sudden that same office was a problem for reasons I will never understand. Beyond that, good bosses are hard to come by, and this guy was one of the best I've ever worked with.

This is just another reminder that, at the end of the day, you're just an employee ID and companies don't feel like they owe you anything, no matter how useful you might be.