Fired by an Intoxicated Boss

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

Last week, my boss was visibily intoxicated and told me I was fired. I asked if he was serious, and he said yes. He gave some nonsensical reason about eating too much KFC. He then rambled about how KFC was evil for the next 10 minutes.

The next day, I decided to show up to work anyways just in case he was too drunk to remember the conversation or if he would be thinking differently now that he was sober. My badge worked href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/fine">fine, I was able to get into my computer, and there was no indication I had been fired.

An e-mail then went out saying that my boss was on indefinite href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/medical">medical leave and we would be temporarily be reporting to a different manager. My new temporary manager set up a meeting with me to discuss any instructions that my real manager had for me before he left.

Do I tell him that I was "fired"? Or do I bank on my real manager being too drunk to remember (especially since he didn't follow through with removing me from the system)? I could call HR and ask them what to do, but I'm afraid they'll terminate my employment if I verbally admit that my manager fired me.

What do I do? Could I get in any sort of legal href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/trouble">trouble staying?

manpreet 2 years ago

Why hide it? Yes, your boss was intoxicated, but you don't want to have issues because you didn't mention something you full well knew and they then find out later. Just make sure to explain exactly what happened to the new manager.

If I was informed the previous boss, who was sent on sick leave, had told someone, while in an intoxicated state, that they were fired but then did nothing about it, I wouldn't follow through on it. Instead the new manager can use that as a reason to fire the previous manager for his behaviour. I would instead evaluate the employee and make sure that it was just a side effect of the intoxication.

In the end, lying could end you in a bad place, if found out. Telling the truth will instead put you in a better light and won't cause you to have any skeletons in the closet.