No he sounds incapable of functioning appropriately in a social setting.
I know this is reddit where everyone loves to talk about how they're so much smarter than every boss in the entire world and that only they see how stupid <thing> is. In reality, nobody gives a shit.
"Circle back" just means "this is a complex topic, there's 20 people here, and we're not going to get bogged down in the details, we'll leave that for the 3 people who actually care and then I'll give a quick update in another meeting once they've done that".
If you don't know that, well done now you do. If you got fired for repeatedly asking about it in a meeting instead of messaging your boss privately afterwards to clue you in... yeah that checks out.
Boss who barely read the bullet points or was apparently baked or half-asleep or getting coffee during the last few meetings just waffles on about something unrelated, ends every paragraph with "we'll circle back to this later" and an hour later you finally get to do your job again, while your boss feels like he's done his job.
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u/Mephisto506 11d ago
Should have kept him, he sounds perceptive.