I'm holding a secret so big, and it's not even a good one...

Have you ever been told something about someone else that could ruin their lives and you can't do anything about it? Worse in 24 hours time everyone knows it but this person. Thursday afternoon I was called into my Office Manager's office to speak to her and my direct manager. I was a little nervous because who wants to talk to the head honchos. So I walk into the office and I'm told to close the door and sit down, da dum, da dum. Funeral March starts playing in my head as I wonder what I could have done wrong. My boss laughs and says don't be scared we need your opinion. Apparently they are letting one of my employees go and I don't even know when this is going to happen. It's the beginining of many lay off's I fear. I understand the need and am grateful for a few of the changes they will be making; however I feel so bad for this particular employee because they are going through some pretty extensive hardships and barely making it week to week, let alone month to month. Now is a seriously scary time to lose a job. So here I sit racked with some tinge of guilt because I know and this person doesn't and I have to play a facade. Who knew keeping secrets could suck so bad.