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?!

Perhaps just be relieved

Sacked with immediate effect could mean they were caught stealing, taking bribes, s.xually exploiting women ... curious to know what it was...

I worked with a similar absolute knob. I couldnt stand him. He was lazy and entitled. Anyway I was thrilled when I got a new job and left.
I heard a year later he'd killed himself. Im afraid I didnt lose any sleep over it.

Oh shhh, most people would feel the same!

bollocks to that. enjoy the moment and hope there is a replacement who does the work

No relish the moment. I dream about this all the time for my utterly toxic bully of a boss. He's a complete fraud. He manipulates the colleagues who know no better because they're less experienced and belittles anyone who challenges him. I despise the earth he walks on and would like nothing more than to see him sacked.

Even when he's caught red handed shafting a colleague he still shows no accountability. I live in hope that there will too many things that he can no longer deny but 3 years in he seems to be able to talk himself out of any pickle.

Shitty people deserve shitty things to happen to them.

I suppose it depends on how awful the colleague was and how happy OP is to see the back of them !!

That's all well and good for you, but the abusive women I worked with never faced any consequences.

My money’s on gross misconduct of some sort if the sacking is with immediate effect. Perhaps rude and disrespectful to the wrong person ?

Nah. Enjoy it. Not every human emotion needs to be subjected to a moral audit. Sometimes the lowest possible standards are perfectly adequate. Enjoy your schadenfreude, OP.

The op could be the bully. Are your other colleagues happy or is it just you? You’ve just commented they are a confident person who didn’t care what people thought about them. They sound great to me.

It's called karma and it's pronounced hahaha.

Is it spiteful to the shareholders to wish the least capable person had not been sacked?

I was so pleased to hear when a couple of people at a previous job had been made redundant and another one 'settled out'. One was incredibly lazy and the other unprofessional.........

The OP probably did feel murderous by the sound of the former colleague 😂

Oh stop it! 😂What a pathetic attempt to try and stick the boot into an OP. Complete fail.

You reacted though! I don’t even bother with replying if I think it’s pathetic. I think instead I hit a nerve with you.

Some people can handle confident people. Some are intimidated.

This happened with one of my clients although part of a general redundancy program. I like to think karma had a role to play. As my client I couldn't avoid him and had to deal with him multiple times a week. He actively delighted in causing people stress, regularly bitched to me about his colleagues and other service providers he used, and also regularly complained about me to my boss (typically about stuff I had pointed out in previous emails and his complaints were then "why didn't she tell me this?"). Nightmare of a person. I was ecstatic when he was fired, and if that makes me a bad person so be it! My working life is infinitely less stressful now and his replacement is super nice.

I have a terrible colleague. Literally everyone finds them difficult and doesn't understand how they are still employed with us. I complained about some sexism from the colleague to one of my team and have been told it won't go anywhere as the difficult person is making plans to leave. I'm frankly delighted, can't wait. But I also can't tell anyone and gabe a party as it isn't public knowledge yet.

It is unreasonable to keep it a secret!

Read it slowly then think about what the actual words say.

Enjoy the feeling of relief and schadenfreude. Sadly it probably won’t last because ineffectual management structures will just allow another one to take his place.

To the pp who heard that a previously toxic colleague had died, I heard that a nasty piece of work I had worked years with before fell overboard a yacht and drowned. I felt nothing but grim satisfaction.

Why, I don’t think she’s outed him.

I wonder if that was what happened with the guy in my workplace, because it seemed to happen ridiculously fast so if they were already making plans to get rid that would make more sense. Because as it happened, we complained on a Thursday, management investigated on the Friday, and on the Monday there was a company-wide meeting where it was announced that he was gone!

How do you know they were sacked, maybe they just walked. Not doing what you thought they should be doing…you might be wrong. Are these just malign rumours from management who have messed up and wish to portray this narrative and poisonous staff in the middle of a feeding frenzy. Rarely do you get the real facts but you’re clearly very happy with the facts presented to you. Did you play a part in this person’s perceived downfall?