To be secretly happy my least favourite colleague has been sacked?

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They were rude, nasty, disrespectful and never really did the work they were meant to do. They’ve been sacked with immediate effect and I’ll never see them again.

AIBU to secretly be glad that the arrogant knob has finally faced some consequences for their actions?!

It’s pretty spiteful tbh. Hold yourself to higher standards.

Nothing better than when the rubbish gets a helping hand out. Don't be smug about it, but you're allowed a moment of satisfaction. Ignore PP.

Disagree with the PP, I'd be absolutely delighted

God, absolutely not! I'm overjoyed that someone was sacked from my old workplace this year, and I left 7 years ago. The man was a sexist pig who disrespected his colleagues and was complained about constantly. But the spineless management did nothing about it for years

What a result OP! 😍xx

Many of us were very happy at work when one particularly person got fired, because of his misogyny and bullying attitude.

Weirdly I kinda miss him now, not because of him but because the shared bitching about him was rather fun. Though I actually got on alright with him, think I was too old for him to try and bully, he went for the younger women.

Congratulations, OP! It gives me hope that, one day, it might happen at my workplace. As it is, we are waiting for the retirement/demise of one (it has been said that we don't ever think that they will do us the pleasure of retiring, so a back-up plan is in place) 😳

Sounds a great relief! I would enjoy a nice slice of schadenfreude if I were you.

Sod that for a game of soldiers, enjoy op.

Not unreasonable to be secretly happy.

Starting a thread on a public chat forum is a bit OTT though.

She's not going to gloat at them and do a happy dance . But she can feel glad that she no longer has to work with someone she found unpleasant.

You feel what you feel, so by definition you are not being unreasonable.

It’s not spiteful. It sounds like the colleague was horrible! Enjoy OP.

So if you felt murderous by your definition you would be unreasonable?

Hopefully your working environment will be a better place after this persons dismissal.
Enjoy this brief moment of satisfaction!

Don't be silly. If colleague had behaved better, no doubt OP would have sympathised. No-one has to sympathise with someone who is habitually rude and nasty.

Really?

I'd be dancing a jig and be proud of this as well!

Karma so rarely happens in real life. Enjoy!

How delightful 😊 Happy Friday !

It just feels like finally something had been done. They swaggered round the office like shit didn’t stick because it didn’t. Then all of a sudden today they’re terminated!

Oh, behave yourself 😂

I think you mean ‘you would not be unreasonable’. And no, it’s not unreasonable to feel murderous. Obviously unreasonable to act on it.

Don’t even be secretly glad! 😂

Not unreasonable at all to be happy! It really grinds you down working with unpleasant people.

Where I work (CS) no one ever seems to get sacked, unless they commit actual fraud - it is so demoralising knowing you take home the same pay packet as someone who faces no consequences for bullying/ineptitude/laziness etc.

I can only hope for the day it happens to someone where I work. Not that they actually do any work. Aggressive when found out but still nothing done. One day..