A bad engineer who delivered a difficult project on time with zero support from everyone who was supposed to help me? lol.

Don't believe the hype, just because management says someone is shit, doesn't actually mean that. People have lots of ulterior motives.

Did it occur to you that because my old boss was demoted suddenly and made an engineer (vs manager) that our team head count was now over budget, and they had to get rid of someone?

And to answer your intelligent followup question, No. they didn't even put out a req for that position till a few months ago.

you're in no position to judge and there's a really disgusting kind of cruelty in your comment.

the funny thing is this kind of thinking is actually pervasive among engineers, and it doubles your isolation. You tell that story to folks and way more people than you would think actually blame you for the problem, (after all you wouldn't be put on a Performance Improvement plan without some sort of due process right? wrong), makes you even more unsure of yourself, even more anxious, even more depressed, even more isolated, even more likely to just take your own life.

Personal attacks like these are not OK on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html