My husband is riddled with bad luck, but one thing about him is that when someone wrongs him, the karma comes back hard. (Example: A police officer gave him a speeding ticket and was arrested one week before his traffic court date causing his case to be thrown out.)
He was fired just a few days before Christmas and this was when I was out of a job as well. I had planned to buy him presents literally the day he got fired but quickly changed my mind when he came home from work 6 hours early. This was really the nail on the coffin of a miserable 6 months where my husband was promised commission pay, but his manager always found the smallest reasons to put it off for an additional month. Then once this manager finally confirmed he would get commission, he was fired only 3 days after. Husband thought about all the reasons he supposedly got fired for, but as it turns out, this company essentially decided after hiring two additional staff members, they were spending too much money on people’s salaries. They fired three people at once to keep the new hires and wiped out an entire department.
We were miserable for 2 months running back and forth from interviews. During this time we found out that this manager had passed his long term hire on a promotion because her name “was too black” and “clients didn’t like that”. He gave the promotion to one of the new hires. This new hire had casually mentioned he was gay in conversation and was fired a few days later. This brought up talk of a previous employee, also a gay man, fired months back. Recently, he hired several more people and fired the only person that has been working the entire time at this location, presumably going back to her being “too black”.
His entire office is in shambles with little to no business since the firings happened. Not so surprisingly, every person this manager had fired, including my husband, were primary sources for business acquisition and retention. The manager took down my husband’s Glassdoor review citing it as false (it wasn’t), causing 4 more bad ones to pop up. The company could no longer cover up this manager’s racist and homophobic tirade and finally fired him. There are talks that this entire location may be shut down.
TL;DR Manager of corporate branch fired almost every employee for new ones and was subsequently fired for being outed as racist and homophobic.