I recently left a toxic company and am waiting to start a new role. Today I was talking to a friend from the old workplace and they told me that someone from a completely different department got fired just after I left and the management told the person who got fired that it was because I left, and that me leaving means they need to restructure everything in the company. I'd only been at the company six months so I was definitely not so fundamental that they'd need to restructure anything, and besides I worked in a completely different department. Feel pretty lousy that the management would use me as an excuse for their dirty work.