Aye yo homie, lil dick boss man bought to fire yo ass.

Run. Take all the pens and go.

“Everyone who works here take a step forward… whoa, whoa, not you Mike”

Don't unless you want to join them.

If they're a friend, help them.

If they're not, stay away.

Interfering with a disciplinary process like that will just get you fired, especially so if you were wrong with your "fact".

(P.S. I have represented several colleagues-who-were-friends in official HR meetings where we were "against" our employer and I decided to get involved even when I could have just stayed out of it. But you have to be fucking careful and - like me - you have to know that you can screw them to the wall by *following the rules*, and be principled enough to say "Fuck it, I don't care if they sack me for doing this, it's the right thing to do").

You don't. Unless it's a real good friend; (s)he will link you to the decision.

"Hey, are you any good at writing resumes?..."

And depending on their yes/no answer:

Yes: "oh good, then you shouldn't have any problems".

No: "you might want to work on that... Soon"

Hey, I heard you're going on a vacation from work soon.

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Find them after work and say:

"It'd be a shame If you were to lose your job... A real damn shame" Then drive off

Buy them the book, Who Moved My Cheese?, as a gift

Meh.

Why bother?

I don't know if there's a tactful way to do this. Maybe start by feeling out how much they understand about the cureent office politics situation in general?