I can sympathize, when I was young and naive I was also befriended by my manager who used our conversations about project and about one of my coworkers to get r

I can sympathize, when I was young and naive I was also befriended by my manager who used our conversations about project and about one of my coworkers to get rid of him. He was a bit erratic but he was honest and good programmer. He must have been a 'handful' to a manager so he got rid of him. I realized what happened years after and to this day I feel shitty that I took part in it.