Stories about when your boss got fired

In My Humble Opinion
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I was never so happy when this arrogant ass got shown the door. And so were a lot of other people. (Except maybe the woman he was banging)

Doug, our foreman took three others up to another city for a safety conference. It was about a six hour drive so they had time to get bored.
And to prevent this boredom from happening, they picked up a few beers, then proceeded to hit the highway and the gas pedal.

Karma! Oh how I love her!
Blasting along the highway at about 90 mph, and sipping a few brewskies, they got pulled over by the cops. Now you have to realize that they were off to a safety conference, Dougie was driving a rental car, charged to his employer, and they had open alcohol in the car.

Well, along with being charged with excessive speed, which is good for one week’s impounding of the car as well as a nice fine, and he was fired.

One other guy was also fired, another guy was let off because he was the one that spilled the beans to HR, and the woman in the car, Miss Teflon, whom Doug was banging, and they were both married to other people, well, Miss Teflon isn’t called that for nothing.

Now everyone at work is happy. As for Miss Teflon, well she has another guy going.

Sometimes life is good!:smiley:

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Holy crow! You guys have had some bad ones, worse than mine I think. I hope I haven’t told you this one already…

My worst was a woman I worked with, at a corporate office for a restaurant franchise. She was my manager, and I idolized her. She was so smart, and confident, and professional, yet caring about my life both at and outside work. Half the time I worked with her, half the time I did customer service (bleh). I really looked forward to the times I worked with her.

But then one time she was out-of-town, visiting some of our stores. One of the newspapers contacted us about a print ad we’d placed. Since I didn’t have the authority (as a mere marketing assistant) to spend money, I asked **our **boss what we should do. “Oh, just contact what’shername,” he replied. “Leave her a voicemail or something.”

So I left her a voicemail. Then another. This goes on a couple of days, and the newspaper deadline approaches. What the heck is going on? So I start calling around the stores she’s visiting, looking for her. Within a couple of hours I get an unbelievably irate call from my manager.

To paraphrase: “How dare you call from store to store trying to find me! Don’t you realize how you made me look! You’re so unprofessional! I can’t believe you would be so immature! Can’t you do anything yourself???”

In the end, I did get the response I needed from her, but I was in tears when I got off the phone. :frowning:

She returns from the market, and within maybe two days she is fired. :eek:

Oh shoot, I did this, I’m thinking. I’m gonna be next. So when our boss comes to talk to me, I’m wondering if I should be getting my things together.

Our boss - now my boss - explains that my manager had been cheating on her husband when she went on these business trips to our stores. Not just the most recent trip, no, but several times. They had a suspicion, but they had to catch her hand in the cookie jar, so to speak. :rolleyes:

Fortunately my old manager was soon replaced with a manager who both treated me more consistently and wouldn’t have conceived of sleeping around when she went out of town. :slight_smile:

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Oh, well, I got hired for a job. Talked to the guy who hired me on Friday. Showed up on Monday, only to find that the guy who hired me…had just been fired. I didn’t know what to do, so I sat down at a desk and started doing work, and they paid me, and I worked there for a couple of years. But that first week was weird. It helped that I had already met some of my coworkers, who could vouch for the fact I didn’t just amble in off the street.

And then, I had a boss who got fired, and I helped. It was particularly satisfying. (She was stealing from the company by falsifying various records.) I should say, she had been my boss, but was not my boss at the time she was fired. She thought she was everybody’s boss, and also apparently she thought she ran the company.

Um, people can get fired from their job for cheating on their husband? I don’t get this. Unless it’s some religious group. “Hand in the cookie jar” usually means stealing, not sleeping around.

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I had the same thought, but I assume it was the “using her job as a cover” part of the equation rather than the cheating that got her fired. If she’s making unnecessary business trips or faking travel, that’s absolutely grounds for firing.

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There was also the “could not be reached when needed to deal with a business matter while on an employer-paid ‘business’ trip” angle.

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I’m much enjoying this thread.

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Arrived at work one morning to find the store manager emptying his desk, with the district manager (:eek:) and the regional vice-president (:eek::eek:) watching him do it. Apparently one of the female employees had filed a complaint the previous week, and the VP had flown out from Corporate to fire him in person.

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Someone on another board told a story about a former co-worker who, while she was being fired, was accompanied by her boss, the company’s CEO, and a police officer :eek: who told her that if she did not stop running her mouth, she would be arrested. When she was escorted out the building, she was also handed a restraining order with over 100 names on it, and was told that she would also be arrested if she contacted any of those people, and would also be arrested for trespassing if she set foot on company property; she was allowed to drive by on the street.

The poster said that she knew about this firing, even though she hadn’t worked there in over a year, because she was one of those 100-plus people on the RO. I wonder what this woman must have done to warrant such a dramatic firing; this poster said that (among other things) Employee Assistance saw a dramatic increase in usage after this woman was hired, and the one common factor was her, because she was so difficult to work with.

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The guy who hired me at Blockbuster later got fired for stealing two entire bank deposits from the store. Never saw him again; rumor was he took the money and moved from Indianapolis to Florida.

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Pretty much. Also, I think she was sleeping with other employees out in our markets. :smack:

“Hand in the cookie jar” was not the most apt phrase; I apologize.

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So it was you.

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Our local elementary school had a principal who was fired because while she was supposedly away from the school on business, she was caught by police having sex with her boyfriend at a local park.

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I worked at a university IT department. The director retired and his replacement seemed nice enough. Then he demanded everyone write a resume to delineate their skills. After reading them he suggested to some people that he knew where they could get a better job elsewhere and that he’d be happy to pass their resume along. He also had a habit of calling all female employees “baby”. He was gone in 3 months.