FWIW, I would never have fired anyone, and you folks knew this. (can I play this “you knew this” card for once? though in this case it’s something that was explicitly said, not something that was never said and then re-asking wouldn’t ever lead to a confirmation) Evidently, that was a mistake, almost.
Alternate interpretation: ‘we indeed made an anti-nta crowd and hung out separately even despite them existing, pretending things were fine as long as needed’. This was very apparent as of 2022, even though I was told no such shadow group existed numerous times.
That dishonesty from this group is exactly what led to a lot of escalations and a lot of this behavior that you described as negative - the ‘being shoved’ thing for example has its underlying context in this specific exclusion and outright lying.
Even if the intent wasn’t to form a group ‘against’ me to ‘push me out’ willingly, that part very much can’t be discounted.
As said, most of this group had always only mentioned inappropriate or undesired behavior to basically everyone else, but never to the people accused of such inappropriate behavior - for example, indeed, I’ve at times had Xin randomly vent about other mutual contacts where when asking to confirm way later, these people were never told about the behavior Xin felt was worth venting about.
This same behavior extends to other members of this group, including purposefully aiming to get me pushed out whenever the Rockstar deal went through, and talking about this to other team members.
security through obscurity isn’t secure at all but okay >_<
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