I got called into a meeting with my manager and someone from HR, which is never a good sign, but I genuinely could not think of anything I had done wrong. I went through the past week in my head and the worst thing I could come up with was being five minutes late once and accidentally taking someone else's yogurt, which I did replace. The meeting starts and HR is doing that calm voice thing where everything sounds serious but also vague, and they say something like, "We've noticed a pattern," which immediately made me nervous because I did not know I had a pattern of anything.
I asked what the pattern was and there was this pause, and then my manager said, "It's more of a general concern," which is somehow worse. So I start listing things I might have done. I asked if it was about a project. They said no. I asked if it was about being late. They said no. I even brought up the yogurt thing and apologized again, and they both said that was not relevant, which somehow made me feel worse about it.
At one point HR said, "It's not one specific incident," which I think is corporate for "we don't have a specific reason." Then my manager said, "Sometimes it's just about fit," which I've heard before but never thought would be used on me while I was sitting right there. I asked what exactly wasn't a fit and he said, "It's hard to explain," which felt like a key detail.
So now I'm sitting there being told I'm being let go for something that no one can describe, and they're both nodding like this all makes sense. At one point I asked, "So what should I do differently in the future?" and HR said, "Just be mindful," which I'm pretty sure means nothing.
The whole thing lasted maybe 12 minutes. At the end, my manager said, "This isn't a reflection of you," which felt like it absolutely was. I packed up my desk, and on the way out someone asked if I'd be back after lunch, which I thought was optimistic.
The weirdest part is I still don't know what I did. I have replayed every conversation, every email, every meeting, and there is nothing.
I might have just been slowly fired over time and no one told me.
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