I just got fired from what I thought was my dream job, and I don’t know how to handle this.
I work as a Solutions Consultant in Hyderabad. It’s been a demanding role, but I’ve loved the challenge and felt like I was building something meaningful for my career. After months of working overtime to meet deadlines, I decided to take a much-needed vacation to the Northeast. It was my first real break in years.
A week into my trip, I received an email with the subject line: "Employment Status". My stomach dropped. I opened it, and it was a termination letter. No warning, no discussion - just an impersonal email saying I was no longer part of the company.
I immediately called my manager, trying to make sense of what had happened. They picked up, and after a long pause, told me it was about “integrity concerns.” Apparently, they thought I had mishandled something during a recent client presentation.
Here’s what actually happened: Two weeks before my vacation, I was preparing for a high-stakes demo for a major client. The software had some last-minute issues, so I had to improvise and skip certain steps to keep the presentation on track. I flagged the situation to the internal team afterward, but apparently, someone reported that I’d intentionally misrepresented the product.
When I explained this to my manager, they seemed to understand. They even said, “I believe you, but this decision came from above.” Senior leadership apparently felt they couldn’t take the risk of keeping me on. They told me it was a “final decision” and even offered to write me a recommendation letter, as if that made it any less humiliating.
What stings the most is how much I gave to this job. Over the past year, I’ve consistently gone above and beyond - staying late to finish deliverables, jumping in to help with last-minute client issues, and even training junior team members. I thought my efforts were appreciated. I’d even been told that I was being considered for a promotion and a raise after this quarter.
Now, it feels like all of that was just empty promises. They didn’t even bother having a conversation with me before making this decision.
It’s hard not to feel betrayed. In Indian workplaces, loyalty is often emphasized - you're told to treat your job like a family. I really thought I’d built that trust, but this experience has left me questioning everything.
I’m feeling lost and overwhelmed. If anyone’s been through something like this, how did you handle it? How do you bounce back from being blindsided like this?
Right now, I’m just trying to figure out what to do next.
As trends has been seen in past few days, loyalty has not been compensated well by the employers to the employee. The least I can say that push you limit, who knows a better job with good work life balance may be waiting for you.
As Ramadhari Dinkar said: "सामने पहाड़ है तो क्या हुआ, खुला आसमान है"
Beautiful
Very much appreciated ❤
Move on you already love company so much that you’re not naming it. 👹
Hard truth
It's Microsoft bro
Love your work not the company!!
Move on - there is no concept of staying long at company aka loyalty. If you get paid more you move out or the company doesn't have funds, they let you go. Purely business.
It's a clear case of misunderstanding. Learn from your mistakes and move on. Take the experience letter and move on. Prepare for the interviews and are you getting a severance package? Are they letting you go or terminating you?
Sorry to hear about this. Take some time off to process this. I would suggest in the future -
- Document all such things on paper and get your manager sign off before executing.
- No need to treat colleagues like family. When push comes to shove, no one will think twice before laying anyone off. So it's not worth it.
- make your plan for the future regarding job search once you feel better. It's ok to take a few days off to process this.
This is nothing new with Indian workplaces. It is however felt by employees and assumed the more they work , the more effort they give the more fruitful results they will get in an organisation with their growth. No organisation is your family and vice-versa no employee is loyal to an organisation if they are getting better offer from another organisation. This is to be kept in mind, you should set boundaries between work and personal time. Be loyal to your work not the organisation. Learn and implement and when you feel you can move on to a better or next level with your growth move on. Assuming staying loyal or putting extra hour might help sometimes as long as it's not putting the higher ups on spot , but the result as you can see you went beyond to deliver skipping the process which should have been applauded and advised not to handle without approval at max instead they chose to terminate.
Just a general advise, I'm sure you are good at what you do, keep learning , prepare for interview and never stop with your growth. In the next job, keep personal and private hours apart, be it whatever reason, don't be a sheep who only will say yes to every request/order. And make sure to understand the company policies before hand on working hours and leaves etc.
Best of luck for your future endeavour brother. Glad the organisation showed you their true colors before it's too late.
Instead of blaming your bosses I’ll tell you what you should hear. Such things are needed to be communicated “before” and not afterward. What you did was extremely risky move & could have harmed potential business of company. Instead of going with the preventive way, you chose to descriptive of later.
Accept it. Not always bosses are wrong!
You are a sad person. Hope you rot
don’t worry bro i can understand how u feeling now with this situation look for another even i got laid off and now 9 months crossed still didn’t got any job
still trying not loosing hope is only option