The company’s head of HR should be livid. If they aren’t, whoever they report to should be livid. Your wife, I assume, is unlikely to become violent. But (and I realize it often doesn’t seem this way) handling separations well is important for workplace safety. Your wife is undoubtedly processing a lot of emotions and may not want to get into it, and unfortunately I don’t see an angle where she gets much more than an apology. But that IT person should face consequences.

J Miller
@jmmaok@mastodon.online