Fired by AI, Hired by Karma

Summary

The HR manager slid a severance agreement across the table and said coldly, "You're fired."

I froze. "Why?"

Just one week ago, my boss had praised me in the company meeting and called me one of the team's most valuable people.

The HR manager shrugged. "Ms. Lyttle, you're already 35. You don't have the energy of younger employees anymore, and you're not what you used to be. You no longer fit the company's future."

I joined this company when I was 29. Over the past six years, I wrote countless lines of code and worked through more sleepless nights than I could remember.