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Fired employee claims company paid $15,000 to walk away, then asks about missing $380,000, stuns HR

A viral post on X has claimed that a former employee was offered $15,000 by a company after being fired, in exchange for agreeing not to contact its clients. According to the user who shared the story, the employee accepted the payment without contesting the termination, but then questioned whether the agreement prevented the company from asking about $380,000 that was allegedly missing from a client account.

The post, written as a first-person account, claims the employee told the company that the money had been transferred through three different accounts before disappearing. The user further alleged that transaction records had already been provided to a bank, leaving the company’s manager and HR representative surprised by the disclosure.

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