[dghlsakjg]

If you have been ghosted by your employer for a few weeks, and he then brings personal struggles into the conversation of firing you, it is understandable that the author would have some gripes.

The manager/owner failed to manage in any number of ways (graceful exits, cash flow, task assignment), and then brought his personal problems to a firing (you should not - ever - mention your own financial issues while firing an employee from your Hawaiian vacation).

You are right that business is transactional, but there is the underlying notion of goodwill (which accountants can and do put on the balance sheet). It is the reason why we tell our old employer that we are leaving in two weeks instead of ghosting them the day our new job starts. It is the reason that you don’t fire people over text from a Hawaiian vacation. You don’t want to be the employee with the reputation for giving no notice, and you don’t want to be the employer with a reputation for firing people heartlessly. The employer in this case significantly reduced the goodwill part of their balance sheet to save a few weeks of salary for this guy. Do you think the other employees won’t read this? What will the morale hit among other employees cost the business? Would you stay at a business where the owner is firing people like this while admitting to personal financial problems?