She Tried To Save Her Manager’s Family From Disaster… And Accidentally Blew Up The Entire Office Instead

After eight years, Reddit user u/Expert-Dress still can’t decide if she was a hero in this scenario… or the office villain. So naturally, she took her moral dilemma to the internet for judgment.

Back when the OP was preparing to leave her job to become a stay-at-home mom, she caught wind of some juicy workplace gossip. Her manager — who had relocated from out of state and was in the middle of selling his house — was apparently about to get fired.

To be clear, she admits the guy was wildly incompetent. But she also knew his wife and three kids were about to uproot their lives based on a job that might not even exist in two months.

Trying to do the “right thing,” the OP warned someone higher up that if they were planning to let him go, they should do it before his house sold. She was firmly told to stay out of it and mind her own business.

So she did the exact opposite.

After officially leaving the company, she called the manager and told him not to sell the house because she’d heard he’d likely be terminated within eight weeks. He thanked her… and then promptly quit two days later.

Cue chaos.

Her former coworkers were furious, claiming she’d left them severely understaffed and that his employment situation was never hers to interfere with. Now, years later, the OP still wonders if she crossed a line — or simply saved a family from a massive financial disaster.

She was firmly told to stay out of it and mind her own business. But she did the exact opposite.

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Here's the original post by Reddit user u/Expert-Dress.

This is incredibly old but I’ve pondered this for a long time: 8 years ago I left my job to be a SAHM. A week before I left I heard that our manager was about to be canned. He’d taken the position from out of state and his wife was in the process of putting their house up for sale and buying a home nearby. The guy was utterly incompetent so I don’t blame my employer for wanting to be rid of him. I told someone higher up that he was in the process of selling his out of state house and uprooting his wife and three kids to come here and if they were gonna fire him, they needed to do it before his house sold. They said to butt out and what he did with his affairs wasn’t their problem. Sooo... after I left, I called him and told him NOT to sell his house because I’d heard through the grapevine they were going to terminate his employment in 8 weeks. He thanked me for my honesty and hung up. He walked out two days later which left everyone at work in a terrible lurch. My work-friends were incredibly pissed and said that his employment was none of my business, especially since I was no longer with the company and they were already short staffed. AITA?

Let's see how the Reddit community reacted.

GaiusHispidus

NTA.

tristen620

Corporate greed at its finest.

Deleted user

You did a kind thing.

Grizzabella00

You shouldn't be shamed for showing compassion.

almost-butnotreally

You did the right thing.

Crystal-Hedgehog

You likely saved him from a disaster.

SereniaKat

I did the same thing!

susanmuecke

You would've been TA if you hadn't told him.

BardicInclination

Employers really have no care for their employees.

Deleted user

They had a chance to do the right thing, but they chose not to.

Jamirolings

Good on you!

G8RTOAD

You may have prevented a mass shooting.

Sankdamoney

In the end, the OP wasn’t trying to stir the pot — she was trying to keep a family from packing up their lives for a job that might vanish. But when good intentions collide with workplace politics, things can unravel fast. So was she out of line… or just the only one willing to say something?