My job replaced me last minute

[BlueCat89]

All week we have been having people come in for interviews. Which isn't abnormal because our tiny business is starting to grow. What I didn't know, is that as I was letting these people in the front door and directing them to our HR manager, that these interviews were to replace me. I am left feeling insecure, unwanted, and stupid. My "boss" pulled a textbook managerial move yesterday and caught me at the end of the day to tell me they hired someone who will be taking over my position and to hand over my files immediately. She proceeded to tell me that they haven't thought much more than the hiring of the person and someone will be in touch with me. Needless to say, I was completely floored and caught off guard that the only semi-sentence that I could form was "um. okay"

I ended up packing up my office yesterday because I wasn't sure what that meant. Am I fired? Are you moving me into another role? She didn't say anything about moving me around. She just said, "someone will be in touch". I have bad anxiety and depression. I left work 30 mins early because I had a complete meltdown. After I got home, I sent a text to my immediate supervisor asking him what was going on and he had no clue. But he told me to come into work today until I hear from him otherwise. So here I am, in this same unstable environment and my chest is heavy, my heart is beating fast. I feel like I don't belong here and honestly, the situation was held completely wrong. I should have been pulled into the office with my immediate supervisor and the HR personnel. I was a manager at Walmart for a long time, I know how these things are supposed to operate. You're not supposed to just barge in someone's office and tell them they're being replaced and someone will be in touch. Like, what the xxxx does that even mean? How is someone supposed to take that? What am I even supposed to be doing right now? I'm just sitting at my desk looking like a xxxxx xxxxxxx .I'm about to have a nervous xxxxx breakdown.

[MAS_Nurse]

Hello BlueCat89

Thank you for your message. You must feel so bad at the moment. I am glad you could share this with us.

This is really horrible for you. Do take whatever support you can.

Your supervisor sounds a little supportive. Do you have a support worker that you can talk about this with?

It might be worth writing down all that has happened to include dates and Times and what was said and any real ent documents. Do you have a trade union representative? You may have a lot of past knowledge yourself from previous work as you say.

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We are here to help and our members are very supportive so may have personal experience that they can share.

Do keep in touch and let us know how you get on.

Best wishes

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that’s awful. I would’ve had a meltdown too if I was kicked to the curb without reason like that. If you live in the US, your boss can legally fire you without a reason and at any time; unless you can prove you were wrongfully fired. I would write what happened at what times, contact my local workers union for advice/help and look at the legal papers the company had me sign when I was hired. I hope you feel better and find a better job.