Here’s some unsolicited advice: If you get fired from a tech company, don’t use that company’s website to speculate about why you were fired, because the CEO might see it and tell the entire internet, in no uncertain terms, exactly why you were put out to pasture.

Today’s case study is that of a Reddit user who goes by the moniker dehrmann. According to the introduction to the chat, dehrmann worked at Reddit from July 2013 to March of this year and “mostly did engineering work to support ads, but … also was a part-time receptionist, pumpkin mover, and occasional stabee.”

For some reason dehrmann decided to host an “ask me anything” session on Reddit about his time there as an employee, at one point stating simply, “I was fired.”

When a few Reddit users asked why, dehrmann explained why he thought things went sour at the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet.”

Sounds reasonable enough, but after a couple follow-up questions, dehrmann goes into a bit more detail.

Enter Yishan Wong, CEO of Reddit, who chimed in a few minutes later to give his own account of why dehrmann was let go, which had less to do with recommendations for charitable donations and more to do with dehrmann basically not getting any work done. If you think that sounds harsh, read for yourself:

Perhaps the first Reddit user to comment on Wong’s post put it best, saying simply: “Oh sh*t.”