A (not so) shocking incident at work

My manager got fired today. No, that's not a euphemism or something, he really did get fired. I am of course very satisfied with the result but I must admit, I wasn't too thrilled about the way it went down.

As I've mentioned before, I have the lowest of opinions about this guy. He is technically incompetent, has horrible interpersonal skills and is a very bad manager. He was very petty when it came to dealings with people. He was very sneaky and dishonest in trying to show himself as better than he is to his superiors, to the extent that he was actively dishonest in plagiarizing reports and presenting them as his own work. It was terrible. In the morning it came up that he had sent an inaccurate report which was full of holes. He got a public tongue lashing from the boss. And then an hour or so later he was called to the HR. When he came back he looked like he'd been crying. He shook our hands and said he was leaving. Almost everyone was in shock at that announcement.

Even I felt sorry for the guy at one point. It seemed a bit too harsh the way the HR dept handled this. It was like cutting someone and leave them to bleed to death. He was given no time to digest the news, his login was locked even as he was being dismissed and he pretty much had to just pick up his stuff and leave. That evening he came over to the apt of one of the guys for a small farewell dinner. Even there he was in complete denial about the reasons for his dismissal. He kept talking about how it was a conspiracy against him, something about being fired because the company wanted to keep a higher earning person on the payroll (that one didn't even make sense). I came very close to giving him a piece of my mind but decided not to do so at the last minute.

Almost everyone in the office was happy he left. He'd made so many enemies by his immature behavior during his stay here that it wasn't surprising. For better or for worse, the big news about his departure was drowned in the buzz of shifting of our office to a brand new office building in a very posh office complex the very next day.