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  One month ago: 
  
  me: Hey, everything is alright with project X?
  boss: Yep, perfect.  
  
  Next monday, employee call me.
  employee: Can you walk me through the code.
  * me explains everything* 
  employee: Ok, just to let you know you are fire.
  me: :-/ Why?
  employee: Boss will call you
  me: ok
  
  next day, boss don't call
  I write an e-mail
  No answer
  Another email 6-7 hours later
  Boss: Sorry, I'm really busy. Calling you tomorrow  
  
  *Tomorrow*
  no call
  *next day, for a week*
  no call.
  
  I go to the office to talk to him. 
  boss: I have a meeting, I have to run. I'll call you when I get back.
  
  And he still haven't call me back, and I have no idea why I got fired.


Your ex-boss is a liar and a weasel who doesn't even have the guts to fire you himself.


Maybe they decided they could pay someone less who could maintain the code after you explained it to them. :P


Your name isn't Buttle is it?


I don't know if it was a joke I didn't understand, but no my name isn't Buttle..


It's from Brazil: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/


As surprising as it may seem, this is far more common than you might think. Welcome to the club (ie. Real World)! Now, that you know how to spot a liar:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/pamela_meyer_how_to_spot_a_...

and weasels:

1986 - Work is Hell from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_in_Hell

The best for you is to move on without any worries, and never look back! (Matt and the TED talks use the word walk away ...or run :)




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