Sounds to me like a reason coughed up a few minutes later when he was trying to rationalize what he had done. Even if that was the reason, if you fired the emp

Sounds to me like a reason coughed up a few minutes later when he was trying to rationalize what he had done. Even if that was the reason, if you fired the employee in front of the entire team suddenly without reasoning until asked for later, it wouldn't help in anyway, not even exemplifying the case.