India, July 19 -- A 31-year-old Reddit user has claimed he discovered he had been laid off while on vacation after an automated reply to an email unexpectedly revealed that he was no longer employed.

Sharing his experience on Reddit, the user wrote: "I am 31 and am pretty sure I just found out I was laid off."

He explained that while on vacation, he remembered something related to a work project and emailed himself from his personal account so he would have a reminder waiting when he returned to the office.

"Only after looking at the automated response did I see that it had been edited without my knowledge to state that 'this individual is no longer employed at X Company' and to contact my manager," he wrote.

The Redditor added that e...