【Watch Officetel: Lover Friend Online】

Getting fired sucks. Learning about it on Watch Officetel: Lover Friend OnlineTV while talking to your employees? Even worse.

Turns out FBI Director James Comey "learned from news reports that he had been fired while addressing bureau employees in Los Angeles," according to the New York Times.

"While Mr. Comey spoke, television screens in the background began flashing the news that he had been fired."

SEE ALSO: The internet has a few incredibly depressing candidates to be Trump's new FBI director

That's pretty harsh.

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

At first, he thought it was a joke.

Mashable Trend Report Decode what’s viral, what’s next, and what it all means. Sign up for Mashable’s weekly Trend Report newsletter. By clicking Sign Me Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Thanks for signing up!

"In response, Mr. Comey laughed, saying he thought it was a fairly funny prank," the Timesreported. Cue the awkwardness ...

"Then his staff started scurrying around in the background and told Mr. Comey that he should step into a nearby office."

Comey used to head the agency responsible for investigating possible collusion between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election, which obviously has people a little worried about the future of American democracy. (Yes, there have been plenty of Nixon comparisons.)

So far, Comey hasn't issued an official statement backing out of an FBI recruitment event that was scheduled to take place Tuesday night in Hollywood, but the local CBS radio affiliate reported he's not going to make it.

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

It also appears he is heading to LAX. Oh, and news helicopters are following him around like he's OJ.

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

The Eventbrite page for his speaking event is still up and has this disclaimer: "Due to often unforeseen operational demands, some program representatives may be unavailable for some or all portions of the event."

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable

Unforeseen -- what an understatement.

---

Featured Video For You

---

This device can tell if your food has gluten

---

• Science
• Entertainment
• Deals
• Games
• Tech
• Shopping
• Life
• Digital Culture

• A Telling Moment
• James Tate’s Last Poem, Found in His Typewriter
• Got Writer’s Block? This App Invokes the Nuclear Option
• Erotics in Prison: On Jean Genet’s “Our Lady of the Flowers”
• No Is Not Enough: Naomi Klein on Looking Beyond Trump
• Little Man of Nuremberg: Wonder in the Age of Matthias Buchinger
• Solve These Rhyming Riddles and Win a Free Subscription
• No Stranger to Excess: Terry Southern on The Paris Review Offices
• International Man of Monocracy
• Having Trouble Sleeping? Read This.

• Li Auto shares surge after teasing its first all
• Best airfare deal: Get 25% off your base airfare at JetBlue for fall travel
• EngineAI unveils world's first humanoid robot able to complete front flip · TechNode
• Webb telescope snapped photo of huge world — in a distant solar system
• Lanma Tech embroiled in salary dispute amid financial struggles · TechNode
• Webb telescope spots extremely bright objects. They shouldn't be there.
• Samsung gives your doodles the AI treatment with 'sketch
• China's Baidu could launch commercial self
• Tencent and 2K team up to launch mobile game NBA 2K All Star on March 25 · TechNode
• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 unveiled at Unpacked July 2024

• Peasants of Code
• Elena Ferrante‘s Children’s Book Is Being Translated and It Sounds Terrifying
• “Le Pont Mirabeau” by Guillaume Apollinaire
• This Sporting Life: On David Storey’s Classic Rugby Novel
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape
• The Dutch Town of ’s
• “The Valley of the Dolls” at Fifty
• This Sporting Life: On David Storey’s Classic Rugby Novel
• Poison Ivies
• Klaus Wittkugel, East German Master of Book Design

• Brand on the Run
• Klaus Wittkugel, East German Master of Book Design
• James Tate’s Last Poem, Found in His Typewriter
• No Life Lost: The World of Berlinde De Bruyckere
• Media for the Apocalypse
• On the Merits of Disturbing Literature
• What If Technology Actually Helped Writers?
• Painting a Poem—Diane Szczepaniak’s Watercolors & Wallace Stevens
• The Longest Miles
• The Strange, Working Romance of Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou