Woman receives job termination email from company she never worked for!
She thought she’d just lost her job. Out of nowhere.One ordinary day, a woman opened her email and was greeted with a termination notice. No warning. No prior conversation. Just a clean, cold message telling her she’d been let go. For a few seconds, panic set in. Did she mess up? Miss a deadline? Say the wrong thing to the wrong person?Then came the twist.The company that had “fired” her… had never employed her in the first place.The bizarre mix-up was shared online by career counsellor Simon Ingari, who revealed that the email had landed in his wife’s inbox by mistake. The HR team had sent a termination email to the wrong person and nearly gave an innocent recipient a heart-stopping scare.Sharing the incident on X, Ingari called out the carelessness behind the error. “Dear HR, please double-check email IDs next time,” he wrote, adding that someone else might not have brushed it off so easily.According to his post, the moment his wife read the email, she froze. Her mind raced through every possible mistake she could’ve made, until it finally clicked that none of it made sense. That’s when she realised the truth: she’d just been fired from a job she didn’t even have.Social media, of course, had thoughts.
Some users found humour in the situation. One joked that she should email back asking for her full and final settlement anyway. Another quipped, “Wrong employee, right trauma.”But others weren’t laughing. Many pointed out how damaging such a slip-up can be, especially in a world where job insecurity is already high. One comment summed it up perfectly: one careless email is enough to ruin someone’s day – or worse, their mental health.It was a simple mistake. But for a brief moment, it felt very real.
