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Just stop talking. Like any bad breakup, it's in everyone's best interest to just stay quiet, not take sides, and hope this blows over. You are digging the ho

• ta_donk_gt 11y ago
  Agreed. This is absolutely the advice to follow at this time. As others have said, we all make mistakes, and should learn from them. The lesson on this one is take the time necessary to cool down before responding in these situations. If you are still feeling a sense of urgency and a need to set things right, that should be a sign you haven't cooled down yet, so wait some more. Naming names (and there were a _lot_ of names in that post, wow) is way over the line of acceptable in this case. Showing up at a client's site to confront your coworker(s) is borderline dangerous behavior. All of the actions mentioned in the post (including the post itself) will only escalate the situation and increase the sense of urgency of all parties. No good will come of that. Cut your losses and move forward. The firing was completely justifiable, and (OP) you know this, let it go. Again, not trying to shame or judge, a lot of us have made similar mistakes when we were young, but you do need to learn the lessons in mistakes or you will never mature.
• mjevans 11y ago
  This is actually surprisingly good live advice that is counter to /most/ conditioning you receive. It's sort of like the obvious but so hard to follow rule... "this is going to sound X... you know what, I probably just shouldn't say it at all."