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Manager sad when laying me off

I got laid off from a job I had for 10 years. It’s a large company and my manager didn’t know it was coming. When telling me they started choking up. I assured him that I’d be fine and that “no-one had died”. Since then I have found a new gig that pays more. For some reason, I’m kinda frustrated with having spent emotional energy comforting the manger who was laying me off. I was the one who had to figure out how to feed my four kids. Am I a selfish psychopath? It’s not his fault he was sad: why am I still angry about his reaction?


I got laid off from a job I had for 10 years. It’s a large company and my manager didn’t know it was coming. When telling me they started choking up. I assured him that I’d be fine and that “no-one had died”. Since then I have found a new gig that pays more.

For some reason, I’m kinda frustrated with having spent emotional energy comforting the manger who was laying me off. I was the one who had to figure out how to feed my four kids. Am I a selfish psychopath? It’s not his fault he was sad: why am I still angry about his reaction?

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