People who act like they have something very important to tell you, then get real cryptic and coy.
My superior at work called me on my personal phone two days ago at three in the morning. This is not normal behavior from him. I answered and his immediate response to my groggy hello was “I’m calling you as a friend not as a coworker”
Ok now I’m concerned. I ask is everything ok. He tells me he won’t be in tomorrow and if I could collect his personal things and leave them on a mutual friend’s desk. I say of course and again ask if he’s ok. He responds that I probably won’t see him in anymore…and to “keep certain people at arm’s length and maybe start looking for another job.”
Now I’m scared. I’ve never been written up, never had a talking to about anything. To my knowledge I’ve been a model employee. I demand he tell me what’s going on. He says he can’t, he was told not to say anything and shouldn’t have even called me to say this, but again calling me as a friend not a coworker and that “the person I would have least suspected is behind everything”
I’m confused now as well as anxious. I ask if I’m in trouble for anything and if so why nobody bothered to tell me. His response was “nowhere near as much as me”
I tell him flat out I’m scared I’m going to lose my job over something he’s not telling me and I’m concerned for my future. He tells me he wishes he could say more but he’s never had a problem with my work or anything else about me.
Convo is going nowhere so we hang up. I still know nothing, have no idea where all this came from, why he couldn’t just come fully clean if he was going to call me that early just to be cryptic and drop crumbs of info.
This has driven me sick with worry. Family and friends think he got fired and is just trying to sow discord at the company on his way out, or he was drunk but neither of those behaviors are like him. I fucking hate people that do this shit. You made the decision to tell me something, tell me everything and stop playing games.
