This reminds me of a time when I was working part time for a small business while I was in high school. The owner told me that an adult employee named Gary wasn’t going to be working there after that day. So a few hours later when I saw Gary, I told him that I was sorry to hear that he was leaving, and he had no idea what I was talking about. The owner hadn’t fired him yet. Talk about awkward.

(It turned out that Gary had been stealing business from that place and doing it on his own, despite not holding the required engineering licenses to actually do the work, so his firing was pretty inevitable.)