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    Fired Via Tweet, Text And Voicemail: Loss Of Job, And Respect

    President Trump's firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson over Twitter is not common practice, but some workers say dismissal sometimes comes with a healthy dose of unnecessary disrespect.
    by Yuki Noguchi Mar 24, 2018 3 minutes
    Autumn Weese was fired — at least, she thinks she was — but found out from co-workers, not from her boss.

    Autumn Weese thinks she was fired last month, but she isn't entirely sure. Weese told her boss at an Arkansas coffee shop she needed to cut back her hours as she pursued her master's degree.

    "The last email I got from her said that she ... 'totally understood the situation,' " Weese says. But then colleagues started telling her how sorry they were to hear she was leaving in two weeks. That was when Weese started suspecting she had been fired.

    "Everybody knew that I was done with the

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