Buggering the Bursar?
#5 - HIPAA violation, and before that, violation of patient confidentiality.
However, I have worked with people who stole, were chronically insubordinate, etc. and management knew about it and didn’t or couldn’t do anything because they were Speshul Sneauxflaykes. :mad:
I just realized this is a zombie thread, but I’m going to respond to this post anyway.
In the town where I used to live, three female city employees were fired outright for “misuse of city equipment”, and three male employees were, shall we say, investigated, and eventually lost their jobs too. I eventually found out that the “misuse” consisted of these people taking pictures of, shall we say, certain body parts, using company cameras while at work, and e-mailing them to each other on city equipment. The women were fired outright because their faces were plainly visible; the men’s were not. Use your imagination on that. 
The kicker is that the women were all in their 40s and 50s, and one of the men was relatively easy to identify because he weighed over 300 pounds. :smack:
Only time I recall a firing on the spot a customer called the ISP I worked for and complained that immediately after he’d had a challenging support call with a tech a profanity filled emailed appeared in his box from a gmail account.
With an IP address owned by us. Ten minutes later the IP address matched with the tech who’d worked with the customer and five minutes after that HR and I walked him out. Which isn’t as dramatic as it sounds since he’d already given his two weeks notice.
I worked in IT support for an auto parts company that had two plants about a tenth of a mile apart. A busy rail line ran between the buildings. To go between the buildings, you had to drive or walk the mile and a half on the street and cross the tracks at the marked crossing. Everyone was told on day one that if you were caught crossing the rails on foot you were instantly dismissed. During my 5 years there, no one ever tried it, though I have to admit I was tempted to a few times.
Safety. I work for a big box warehouse retailer. Extra merchandise is stored in the racks, above the sales shelves, and occasionally must be retrieved with a forklift. Violate the protocol on that - don’t use a spotter, don’t block off the appropriate aisles, don’t maintain a buffer zone around the machine - and you’re gone, right then. Doesn’t matter if you’re a manager, for that matter. I truly believe my company would fire the CEO if he let a customer get underneath a forklift’s load. They don’t play.
I had a co-worker who thought it would be cool to say he was going to bring a gun to a difficult customer’s place of business and shoot innocent bystanders because he had a hard time there the week before. Our boss’s boss’s boss heard him and made an uncomfortable face and slipped out of the room. The bragging employee went out to leave for the day and came back complaining that some a-hole took the keys out of his work truck and accusing people of taking them. Just then the higherup reappeared with about 12 cops and pointed at the loudmouthed jackass and they tackled him and took him away. HR had a meeting the next day and gave every employee a copy of a restraining order against him and instructed us to take his picture and get away and call 911 if we saw him anywhere ever again.
:eek:
I work in a hospital and the only instances I’m aware of involved deliberate HIPAA violations.
Another was when an employee was listed in the newspaper police blotter for marijuana possession. She wasn’t walked out, but her accounts were locked out when she returned to work.