Today I found out I’m being “let go” from my job after being with the company for 3 years.

I was not let go, but I signed a contract to start a new job. I was preparing to tell my line manager, when I actually checked my company's hiring page and lo and behold! They have my job up to hire for about 3 months and actively recruiting for it (based on some recent Twitter posts). Never discussed this with me, the job was so specific that it could not be a second person involved.

The timing was suspicious because 3 months before then, I was talking about raising my rate (as I was grossly and badly underpaid - the person working with me was asking a raise twice my rate!) and having more duties also. I also told them that I was sick of doing the same boring shit , that they needed to badly hire someone to do parts of my job that I had been filing in for a year, which was downright insulting. They also didn't recognize the type of work that I was really doing which was far more technical.

My reaction was.. OK because I knew that I was about to have a massive pay increase but if this happened while I was looking for work that would take a hit on my self esteem.

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