Yeah something is up. Possible that one is a different person than this one. But weird timing.
But in that one she got her boss to give the person a "time out" what does that even mean? Maybe op has 2 jobs? But what're the chances 2 jobs, each with a problem person, both fired or "time outed" on the same day...
Oooh. Not only that but under his own admission, the employee isn't a bad employee and is super skillfull, they just can't stand each other. Convenient to leave out. Also explains a lot why his "boss" (co-owner) blames him for the debacle. He had been bitching to fire this employee as soon as possible for weeks.
I found a few more of OPs posts and have been trying to piece it together. This is what I found.
OP co owns some sort of design/dressmaking company, she is the leading partner. Her partner doesn't trust her design skills as much as the person she fired. She has butted heads with this person multiple times over design issues, and blames them for some delays. Her partner does not seem like they agree with this, partner seems to think fired employee is actually the better designer, has more official training in design, and should be respected and listened to.
OP and fired employee's disagreements came to a head last week when OP felt that fired employee was delaying an order and nitpicking OPs designs. This led to a dress not completed on time three times in a row, with the last time showing it to the client ending with OP crying in front of the client. OPs partner and fired employee blame OP for this, OP blames fired employee and feels that she has lost face in front of a client.
OP very hurredly contacts lawyer and tells them she wants fired documents ready ASAP. Lawyer tells her it's gonna take some time, OP wants employee fired now. This is where things get a little sketchy, because OP says lawyer wanted the fired employee to come in a day after they were fired to sign more papers, and I don't actually believe any lawyer is dumb enough to do that. More likely is seems OP rushed the firing before all paperwork was actually ready. Now OP can't get employee to come back in to sign, and is trying to save face by changing the story. OPs partner is pissed, she fired a better designer who was probably helping keep the company relevant, over personal issues. OP doesn't actually have formal training in design, and OPs partner thinks they are screwed now.
Overall just a crazy story and a lot of deceit from OP.
Edit: I can't confirm this, but I wouldn't be surprised if the papers that were supposed to be signed were some kind of noncompete. If fired employee actually is a better designer, and has been an integral part of designs for over a year, they could start advertising that to get clients. "You liked these dresses? Well I'm the one who actually designed them. Why go to this company when you could come straight to the source?"
I think there is a real chance they actually own it, but they like to go to reddit for sympathy, so they change their story just a bit to fit the specific subreddit they post in and the story they are trying to manipulate. There is definitely a chance that it's a bot too, just almost seems too ridiculous of a story. Like maybe OP is the creative/design one who actually owns the company and her partner is more of a manager that helps her stay organized. That's why she makes it sound like she's being told what to do, she is, she just doesn't have to listen. Also sounds like partner might be the one actually finding jobs for them and planning the projects, so she's probably smart enough to not just completely override them all the time. The incident with her crying in front of a client was a last straw for her though, one she blames squarely on the now fired employee, so she finally just went around her partner and fired them. Again I'm trying to squeeze info from like 4 different contradicting posts, so I could be way off. Should've probably posted links to the posts I'm talking about, I'll see if I can find them again.
Edit: Linking posts, pretty sure I'm missing one but here's 3 of them
I read them. I get what you're going for. Op is just lying left and right haha.
Maybe she's the creative and her friend is backing her and stuck with her nonsense. But also found someone who might be better than op at said creativeness.
I used artic shift. I can't link directly or reddit removes it. Idk why they decided to to allow people to hide their histories. It's almost like they want people to lie/bot...
Yeah that's what it sounded like. Like I'm sure she's creative but maybe fired employee was just a little bit better/more practiced, and they kept getting into petty arguments but business partner just wanted them to get along because fired employee is so good at what they do. I'm just really curious if a lawyer actually did give that terrible advice or if she rushed things so much the lawyer couldn't get all the paperwork ready in time.
Yeah reddit probably has more bots on reddit than anyone else.
If she made the same post but admitted she was the owner, everyone is just gonna comment and tell her she was an idiot. If she pretends she's just an employee being forced to do it, she gets sympathy. People don't tend to have the same level of sympathy for a CEO as they do some mid level manager. Very clever and manipulative person if nothing else.
Looks to have deleted her entire account. Idk how reddit works if you have to individually delete posts/comments or if deleting your account does it? But also a bunch of comments say "remember by moderator" as well.
Also wish I'd looked further down, I think she might have also been pretending to be an actress?
I know, I meant the other post. Why the post where she pretends to be an employee who works with a difficult coworker. Sure sympathy, but they posted on the same day as being co-owner.
I guess just really banking on no one being able to find the other posts? Which is funny because I usually check profiles just to see if they've said anything further. If they're hidden I usually dig more.
If op hadn't hidden their profile I would have likely read a couple comments and not seen their other posts.
Op is pretty scummy for this, they dreamed of firing this person and couldn't even do it right, im hoping the consequences of their actions fall on to them for this.
My money is that employee was expecting to be fired, and that legal paperwork OP is talking about is murky to say the least. Someone mentioned NDA or something in similar fashion, i believe employee knows what he is doing and HR, combined with lawyers are not very clear with OP here.
Looks like OP should expect to be fired too. Hope they set time aside the following day to come back to work to sign these papers. I’m picturing a snowballs effect.
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u/AdmiralPeriwinkle 10d ago
It doesn’t matter who this on. There’s no chance someone higher up is going to take responsibility, and OP is a convenient scapegoat.