Holy Hell! This guy is the gift that keeps giving!

Spanky showed up today and walked in as if nothing happened. His badge would have been disabled so he probably followed someone else through the door. Security came up to me asking if I'd seen him and scampered off to find him. Upper management was among the people in the search party.

I've been giggling all morning and the jokes are flying like crazy.

I think that is just Corporate America, or corporations worldwide. A lot of the guys that went overseas, especially Malaysia, ended up divorcing their wives and marrying a nanny, housekeeper or executive assistant.

Guy got fired for telling one of the company principals he was on crack

Intricate trading system, all Oracle based, one of the principals wanted to change the way a bunch of stuff was done. The hero of our story was an Oracle DBA-ish who handled most of the trading system < - > oracle integration, and he felt comfortable enough to shout "NO! THAT WON'T WORK! YOU'RE ON CRACK!" in a full devops meeting.

Had he done it in a smaller meeting and with a little less gusto he might have survived...he was one of the early members of the company; I think his employee number was under 25. C'est la vie

New Physician was caught smashing a Nurse

Both married


She got fired

He got a stern talking to

Back in the 80s I worked commercial construction during summers of college.

We had a guy who was fairly well known as a drug dealer gangster type. Actually was hard worker and decent guy at work.

One day the news said a guy was killed the night before.  

After a few days it came out the guy was having an affair with my guys wife.  Dead guy had his member cutoff and shoved in his mouth, then shot execution style.

My guy never missed work, acted like nothing happened.  

We joked with him about what he did first, the chop or shot.

He laughed it off, said not me.  

About a week went by and the swat team showed up to haul him away.  Guess he got fired.

In high school I was working as a bagger/stocker at a local grocery store and the guy who waxed and buffed the floors from time to time at night offered me some part time work with his crew. I had been doing it about two weeks, working the grocery store days and doing floors after hours at night. One night we were doing another store and i was absolutely whipped. I stretched out on a pallet of dog food in the backroom while the boss and another guy were doing the front. I was gonna "rest" my eyes for a minute. When i woke up their was a note on my chest that read: As long as you are asleep you are hired, but when you wake up you are fired.

I laid back down for about 20 more minutes, woke up, and left the store.

We were responding to a call around midnight.  PD keys up on the fire radio channel requesting the battalion chief to respond to one of the local bars for an "unruly firefighter".  We were all ruh, roh this will be interesting.  It turns out to be a probie and his badge bunny girlfriend.  He was being a drunk ass and she was playing the "do you know who he is" card.

He got a few shifts off to think about his future.  The chief has a meeting with probie and the police officers on that incident in his office.  Apparently, it was a short meeting.  Probie was given the opportunity to apologize to the officers.  Probie could not get out of the way of his ego.  His answer to the apology request was "why". Chief asked probie to leave and immediately turn in his gear.

Had a young guy leave his carry piece on the shelf in the bathroom.  Not allowed per company policy.  The guy that found it thought it was mine and initially came to me.  I recognized whose it was, and he got a pretty stern talking to and told to not let it happen again.  End of that story.

Fast forward a few months, he did the same thing in another office.  Except this time, the guy that found it wasn't cool and called corporate.  Fired immediately.  

Good dude. Appendix carried a G19.  Just couldn't figure out how to use the bathroom without taking it off.

I take mine off as well, but I can just drop it in my drawers.  If you have to leave it on a shelf or something, pick up one of these and hook it on your belt buckle


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Had a really strange temp agency hire recently.  He was wearing a boot for an injury he stated happened in the gym.  When people would ask him about it he would get really angry.  He was standing around talking outside my office one day and people were asking his name and what he liked to be called.  I googled his name.  Had recently been arrested for beastiality and several other offensive crimes. The boot was likely covering his ankle bracelet.

Field technician in the oilfield about 13 years ago. Had a 14/14 tech that was relatively new (6 months). The 14/14 guys were in town for 14 days straight, and worked all 14. They weren’t supposed to refuse work unless they were already working on another call, but they were guaranteed a minimum 12 hours of pay. They almost always worked more hours, so this rarely came into play.

Tech refuses a call. Field coordinator didn’t think much of it, as sometimes customers called the techs directly or another full time tech would send them a job. Most jobs took anywhere from 1-4 hours. Field coordinator gets another call, and calls tech again. Tech again refuses the job, and the coordinator didn’t think too much of it. Then he decided to see who the closest tech was to the call so he could send them when they finished up. When the coordinator pulls up the fleet GPS tracker he realizes said 14/14 tech was at the local titty bar, and had been there most of the day. At this point management gets involved, and they write the tech up. He was one of the protected classes, so he got off light. They sent him home (company apartment) from the titter with threat of termination. He didn’t argue too much, but come the following week he tries to turn in his “minimum daily hours” for that day. The only problem is that those hours are only guaranteed if they tech doesn’t turn down work. Also he tried to argue that his daily minimum is 16 hours instead of 12. Management even gave him the opportunity to correct the time clock (again protected class), but he refused. Management was scared to fire him, so they called HR on what to do to protect themselves. HR fired him on the spot without another word. They had his company apartment cleaned out within a couple hours, and on a flight home ASAP. They didn’t listen to a single excuse of his. About the only time I’ve ever seen HR have a nutsack and do the right thing.

The female head of our office took pity on this guy who was a major POS, I guess because he reminded her of her dead son or something. The guy was constantly sleeping at his desk, stoned at work, and just generally did nothing productive, but she protected him.

He pretty much got away with murder at work, but eventually the last straw was when he got wacked out on drugs, tried to break into some random person's house, and got shot and arrested. At that point they pretty much had to fire him.

Another one: at one point I worked at Home Depot. One guy would basically just "disappear" sometimes, and always had some excuse about where he'd been. Turned out he had built a "nest" behind some large boxes in the back room by the loading docks and would go back there and take naps.  

At the same store we had this absolutely disgusting person working in the phone room, who kept a bucket in there to piss in. He used a wheelchair and had all these open wounds/sores on his legs. I'm sure it was probably painful and inconvenient for him to go to the bathroom but just whipping it out and pissing in a bucket is not a viable solution.

I worked at an auto parts store when I was in high school. One of the managers was a really nice guy probably in his 30's but fairly off. He also managed a local Mcdonalds when he wasn't working the parts store. First he changed his name to Dartagnon. After his name change he had this new sense of empowerment and would get super pissed when you slipped up and called him by his old name. One day he gets caught huffing paint in the paint isle and starts talking about these visions of death, and everyone in the store perishing in a fiery demise. He was promptly shitcanned. I often wonder where he's at today.

New-hire that passed multi-year medical-specialty training courses starts falling asleep on the job first week on night-shift in the midst of COVID. As in, unable to be awakened at all. Soon starts disappearing for extended amounts of time, 45-60+ minutes.

Guy is a 50 year-old-ish stomach-cancer survivor, so everyone cuts him slack, thinking it's from ongoing treatments, day-to-night transition period, etc.

First night of his 2nd week on nights, dude crashes out hard on me while I'm training him. Pattern has begun to emerge. He finally rouses after an hour or so, hops right up from a dead sleep to go disappear somewhere. Drops what originally looks like a half-empty hand-sanitizer bottle in the process, doesn't even notice. I reach down and pick it up for him, and place it on the counter. Notice that the label states "watermelon-flavored", and alcohol content is in proof, not percentage.

Grab another coworker to examine the bottle to make sure I'm seeing what I'm seeing. Lots of liquor manufacturers went all-in on producing hand-sanitizer in half-pint bottles during COVID. She confirms it's booze.

Dude returns, sees bottle on counter. Starts making the excuse that he forgot it in his lunch-bag from over the weekend. Lunch-bag was nowhere near him when he dropped it. He assures us it's just an innocent mistake. We take him at his word, but I advise him to reach out if he has a problem and needs help, as this is one of those mistakes that just doesn't happen, and our medical job is serious enough that we can't tolerate games or lies. He looks me dead in the eye and says it's just a silly mistake.

Two nights later, same thing. He falls asleep working with another person, jumps up suddenly, and this time drops an airline-sized plastic bottle of Fireball liquor with the distinctive red cap. It's empty, and dude snags the thing out of mid-bounce off the floor, but not before I see it. Ok, it's time to turn him in. Department head is off on vacation, so we contact a director. Has the two of us witnesses put everything in writing in an email. We're sworn to secrecy from saying anything at all to the other workers.

Next night, I'm off. He does it again, but another person sees him drop a bottle, Tito's this time. He reports it first thing after shift to director. Director shows up to search employee, finds liquor bottles in his bag and locker. Guy is so hammered by that time he can't even drive home, he wets himself, and director has to drive him home after terminating him.

Strangest part is a few weeks later, guy checks himself into rehab because his nurse/wife is about to divorce him after she helped get him this job. He calls after a 30-day inpatient stay and asks if he can have his job back, since he's all better now...

I worked at a US Army training school for a specialized MOS. A student got his arm stuck in the coke machine. The same student was supposed to have a meeting with the CW4 that day about appealing his relief from the course for failing the same exam three times in a row. He had his meeting while the fire department was trying to free him. It's on video. My favorite part was when the CW4 asked him why he should be allowed to remain in the course.
"I'm really smart and I know I can pass if you give me another chance."



CW4 looked like

In the early 2000s, Dodge had an incentive program for their dealerships. If you sold a certain amount vehicles, parts, accessories, your employees had training, etc. The dealer next door had reached the top tier. I think it was 5 star or something. Come to find out, the parts manager, who had worked there for 20 years, was ordering all kinds of accessory parts and hoarding them to meet certain goals. He had tripled his parts inventory in a year. He earned an all expense paid vacation and all kinds of bonuses and swag. It only cost him his job.

I hired a weird little dude for a low level position. He was a shop helper, managing scrap metal, mopping floors, and occasionally running a tow truck. He had no previous experience. His only work history was 6 years of military and he ran a company store on a remote Alaskan island for a long time. My supervisors were having trouble training him. Silly stuff, he would take an almost empty trash cans to the dumpster one can at a time rather than combine them. I tried giving him the benefit of the doubt. His travel times were atrocious on the tow truck. The supervisors found he was driving 40-45 mph on the freeway.

After having a few conversations with him about his performance, they asked me to sit in. We were all in the conference room. A few minutes into the conversation, he stands up and walks to the podium at the front of the room. Then he starts to give an impromptu speach about himself. While referring to himself in third person, he starts talking about what a stellar employee he is and how invaluable he is to the company while shaking his fist and banging on the podium.
"John Smith is a top rate employee! John Smith has the potential to lead Generic Corp. to new heights! John Smith makes safety a priority and his contributions should be celebrated!"
Yeah, time to go pal.

Did you work at a bank or financial institution?  That's pretty much what happened at my wife's workplace 20 years ago.

My wife was later fired after they no longer needed her testimony against a coworker.

Coworker got road rage-ie and held a gun out his car window.  The other driver held a badge out his window.  Coworker pointed the gun at the cop (civilian clothes in his POV).  Cop called for backup.    The next week, coworker, still sitting in jail was fired for "job abandonment".

I was fired for the first time in my life about 4 years ago...

I complained that I was not paid enough, and the "raise" of $1 was mostly going to taxes. I stated it was a slap in the face after what Intel/they promised. All 5 of us were under paid.

The recruiter did not like how I reacted and said I should be thankful. She was a big cu*nt. I did not care, I went to Europe for 35 days 4 days after I was let go...

Longer story:

Intel did not like the recruiter they used to fulfill the jobs, so they switched it up to a new recruiter without checking on the details.. Most of us had free healthcare for example...  Once the switch our pay rate never changed (the "raise was a 8 months later), and then we had to pay for health insurance which was really expensive.

Any employment lawyers?? Would love to chat.... Think I have a case against Intel Corp for abuse and co-employment of contract workers...

I knew a guy who worked for Intel. His whole department was let go due to downsizing. He had worked there for 20 years. He was devastated.

He ended up starting his own business. Intel called him back less than a year later and wanted him back. His company now contracts for Intel at three times his previous salary and he only does work for them a fraction of the time.

The son of the owner got into a physical fight with the owner because the son kept trying to get me to do his work for him when I had other shit to do. It took him more time/work to get me to do his work for him than if he did it himself.

My boss had already told him to stop doing this and he did not. It came to a head and they were arguing then the owner got involved trying to calm the situation down but that turned physical with the owner and the son.

So basically, he had a job where a self avowed socialist got away with doing virtually NOTHING all day and he fucked up by trying to have me do his work for him because he hated me for being a conservative.

It's probably public record and you could look it up.

Three cops

One took an issued flash bang and set it off in his front yard for new years. Neighbors didn’t take too kindly to it. He was let go

One was caught supplying alcohol to a minor.

The last punched a kid in the face while off duty and got let go and proceeded to rack up a weapons charge as well.


Not necessarily crazy but pretty f’n dumb

Damn it now I’m going to spend the rest of my screaming “don’t say it “ in my head

The laws on statute of limitations changed after his jr high teacher. Those law changes allowed Nasser to be prosecuted or he would have slid based on statute of limitations as well.

Note to self change team building exercise

At one of my old jobs we had a "sheater." He'd buy food from the little automated shop in the cafeteria and take it to the bathroom to eat it inside the stalls. We'd constantly find wrappers for sandwiches, danishes, etc. crumpled up behind the toilets. At least one co-worker also claimed to hear muffled porn combined with what he hilariously described as "light fapping sounds." We eventually figured out who it was and he was still employed there when I left. The weirdest part was that we were allowed to snack at our desks so there was no reason at all for him to hide out in the shitter. Besides that, all I remembered about him was that he dressed like a Hot Topic emo kid (as much as he could within the dress code, at least) and drove a Dale Earnhardt Edition Monte Carlo SS. Real weird kid.

At that same job, we had a newly hired IT director that was fired inside of two weeks when his background check came back – he had been convicted on some very serious charges involving children in another state. What was especially creepy is that a coworker confided in me after the fact that he had been coming on to her, which in itself wasn't unusual – she was by far the prettiest girl in the office with a great personality. However, he always asked about her daughter, and she had no idea how he even knew she had one – besides the photos she had saved on her computer. He probably went through every employee's photos looking for his next victim. It's terrifying that he even made it into the building.

I guess compared to that monster The Sheater wasn't so bad.

At another job there was a senior master tech who threw away 20+ years on the job by calling a co-worker the N-word and stealing a portable air conditioner in the same day.

We had a senior flight medic that lectured us during training saying that if he ever caught us stealing medication and getting high on the job he would personally come destroy us. It was kind of weird how long he talked about it. Fast forward about 2-3 months into our deployment and we all get called into the TOC for an important briefing. Dude had OD'd on a combination of induction medication in his room up at Bagram and was found dead. I walked out during the moment of silence they had for him, among others.  I looked him up a while back, and they listed his death as "combat related". I suspect for the family, but it still bothers me.

Not quite a firing but he doesn't do that job anymore.

I had to go to a building dedication for two pilots that died "in combat." At least, that's what their families were told. What actually happened was that they had poor cockpit communication and both went hands off the controls at the same time, causing the helicopter to crash. I guess nobody wanted to tell the families that 'The DoD regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid... Great Balls of Fire!"

We had a guy who was always "on orders" for the Reserves during major holidays. Dude took months off whenever he wanted by generating a fake set of orders. The supervisors didn't call his commander for some reason, until one of them finally did. The guy had ghosted from the reserves for almost a year and his commander had basically written him off. He works for the Air Marshals now.

We also lost a flight medic on that deployment to a rotor strike to the head. He attempted to walk under the rotors and there was a rise in terrain or something that took his head off. That was a sad one.

This one isn't so much a 'got fired' story as it is a 'fired before he was ever hired' story.

One weekend one of our offices was broken into.  Somebody stole a laptop from a project manager that was on his desk.  Our IT folks were able to remotely disable access to resources. They also had some security features that allowed them to find the location.  Turns out, the laptop was connected to the wifi at the local library. Cops are dispatched and they take the person into custody. He was the one who stole the laptop.

Here's where it gets good. . . guess what he was doing on the laptop?  He was in the middle of completing the online job application to our company.  

Yeah, we don't hire folks who steal from us.  Sorry.

Generally they won't say why they fired someone.

One co-worker left because the FBI nabbed him for child porn. I assume he was fired also. I worked with him for about a year, during which he seems to have been under investigation the whole time. I even traveled with him a number of times. He was a little odd and you could tell he had some tension in his life, but I didn't expect him to have that issue.

we had a woman at work who was around 3 months from retirement get walked out. SHe was bitching about the company with a couple board of directors right behind her. She's been warned before about bad mouthing the company at work.

Not my job, but told to me. An individual was hired at one of the Big 3 airlines as someone on the ground (I don't know exactly). One of this individuals responsibilities was to tow airplanes. Well this guy was new. Very new. And on one particular day this guy was tasked with moving a 777. A brand new 777. While towing this jet he took a corner too fast. Fast enough that the front landing gear collapsed. Allegedly, there is footage from the airport cameras of this guy looking on in horror at his mistake, taking off in a dead run, climbing the fence of the airport, and was never seen again.

At my job, someone was arrested for molesting their own kids. I believe one of the charges was "penetration of a minor under the age of 12".

I used to work at a major global corporation with this Brit - kind of a strange dude but married to a Japanese so he had a spouse visa to be able to work in Japan.

One day the Japanese police show up and take him away. It turned out that he had been using photocopied Japanese postal stamps to mail things. Of course everything he mailed had his name and return address on them so it was easy to find him. In order to save a few bucks here and there he threw away a good job that he was lucky to have.

In the end his wife divorced him and without the spousal visa he had to leave the country. Last I heard he was living in the Philippines.

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Another guy who was here in Japan working for some bank - got his job through his wife whose dad was a bigwig in upper management back in Europe. The bank paid for his big apartment and he and his wife were living it up in downtown Tokyo.

One Friday his wife goes with some friends for an overnight climb on Mt. Fuji. A few hours out the weather got really bad so they turned around - she tries to call her husband but he has turned his phone off - so they dropped her off at the apartment. She gets home to find a naked Japanese call girl eating ice cream out of the freezer and another one in bed with her husband. She dump's his ass, leaves Japan, and files for divorce back home. A couple weeks later her father has him terminated as well, which of course means the end of the big apartment too.

That is a good story! Good on him for doing that!

I've been back at Intel for a little over a year now, but leaving soon. I plan todo something similar but with network security...

Maybe he realized he had screwed up and was trying to keep you from doing the same thing?

Former coworker with 20+ years used a purchasing card to buy personal items. Rumor was about 10k total. She also sucked at her job and had an attitude.

Maybe you're right, but I think it had more to do with a guilty conscience.

Back in the '90s, I had a security job in the greater Myrtle Beach area.  Sat at a building for a few weeks, got promoted to patrol because I was not an idiot. Promoted to area supervisor after a few months. Etc

We had another young guy who worked for us who wanted to be a cop. He worked the relief patrol when the two main patrol guys were off (me and the South end guy).  

This guy wanted to carry a gun and I told the owner of the company but there was no fucking way I was signing paperwork on him (I was the state designated training officer and firearms instructor).

I pulled into a gas station one night to grab something to drink when a black guy in his '40s ask me why I was shining my lights at him the night before when he was walking down the highway (US 17 in Little River).  I told him I was off but I got details of when and where it happened and then I would absolutely take care of it.  

Let's just say his excuse was riddled with terms like "fried chicken eater" and things like that. What made it more interesting is that our chief of security was black .  Luckily, this idiot was putting himself through the community college in North Carolina to get hired by some broke ass police department somewhere.  

A month after he gets hired, he ends up buying a used white crown Vic. He rummages around the storage room for this tiny ass police department and finds a pair of blue lights to mount behind the rear-view mirror. He then disassembles the third brake light and hand cuts a blue lens for that from an old Whelen light bar while taking an old strobe tube and wiring a power supply inside the third brake light.  One of the traffic enforcement guys with the Horry County Police Department stopped by to see me when I was doing paperwork one night and asked me about him, he pulled him over and this dumbass mentioned to how he used to work for me.  I said yeah, he used to, he's a cop in North Carolina but he's fucking nuts so be sure to bust his ass for anything you can.  He agreed it was really fucking weird to have visible blue lights in his personal vehicle And he would keep his eyes out for him again.

Luckily, I lost contact with him. I decided to do a little digging a couple years ago and found out he moved from that shit hole police department to another shit hole police department. Then that shit hole department got shut down and he went to another shithole department that eventually got shut down. But not before he was named the police officer of the year. A few months later? He was arrested for molesting his 7-year-old stepdaughter and videotaping it.  

So while I wanted to get rid of him years ago because I knew there was some bad shit in his head. I had no idea he would have been capable of that.

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After the first idiot left, we had another idiot who worked the South patrol.  The vehicles were left and my boss's house. His subdivision was in the northern patrol area, right next to one of our properties we patrolled. I could park on that property and see my boss's house through some thin bushes. One night I'm there, about 3:30 in the morning when I see are other patrol vehicle pulling through the neighborhood. 5 minutes later, I see this assholes personal vehicle leaving.  

We each had an assigned radio that we would take home, and he lived in the South patrol area which had very strong radio reception so the portable radio which sound just as strong as the mobile radio.  I called him at 4:00 with the rest of the guys before hourly check and he said everything was okay. He checked off duty at 5:00 like usual.

I watched him do that the next two nights between 2:30 and 3:15.  I filled in the owner of what was going on and he was called in at the beginning of the shift the next night and asked for his keys and radio.  His shift started at 9:00 p.m., he was probably dropping off his reports on his first check of each property.  It didn't pay much but it wasn't much to do. Drive around, be visible.  He was definitely special, not like there was a lot of jobs available for him.

We have one of those at work too. If you try to shut her up at a critical moment she'll just say "I'm just saying..." and keep right on ranting.

She's a chain smoking old hag who people tolerate, at best.

No one got fired, but...

Wife (bank manager) was telling me about one of her employees who has a distinctive odor and the shakes.  I tell her it sounds like this guy's an alcoholic and you should watch for him drinking on the job.  A couple weeks later, she's driving to work and she sees the employee on the side of the road with a flat tire.  She stops to help (probably more like moral support than anything, I can't picture her even attempting to help change a tire in her work clothes) and she notices his open trunk is full of empty beer bottles.  She can never really catch him at work, though, and his performance is good enough that she hasn't been trying to catch him.  It doesn't help that they're short staffed as is.

Anyway, he's still working for her, but he is currently on FMLA for liver failure.  The guy is only 30yo, too.

Starting the process for someone who is sharing photos of dickfers.

I had a shitty, hourly wage job in college. My supervisor had apparently amassed a sizable porn collection on his work computer.  They walked him one morning, then the boss tells me that, even though they knew it was bullshit, they’d have to walk me too because I had access to the same computer (my supervisor made some kind of weak excuse that I was involved).  He invited me to re-apply, but I passed and got a higher paying job elsewhere.  Until the incident, I had no idea the porn stash existed.

He was probably spanking it at work - I choose not to think about that.

The firing process was fairly straightforward, though. The strangest way I ever heard of people getting fired was when a whole shift got laid off after they called a fire drill to get everyone out of the building.

Fuck Up, Move Up


We had a saying at a state entity I worked for:
When you are hired you are given a bag of marbles. When you screw up they take a marble away.
When you’ve lost all your marbles you’re eligible for promotion.

The amount of truth in that was disturbing.

Software company.

No ties to financial institutions at all.

Nothing related to work at all. Apparently, his "hobby" wa chatting up young girls and getting them to send him videos.  

When you do that over state lines, apparently it becomes something the Secret Service investigates. They'd "talked" to him a year earlier, as it turns out, but didn't have enough for a slam-dunk conviction at the time. They left him alone and let him hang himself over the next year and then came in and asked him if he'd like to take his jacket with him, because he'd not be coming back.

The whole thing went down in a matter of minutes. The came in a couple of black SUV specials and covered all the exits while the rest came in to retrieve him. I'm in the back and do no have a clear line of sight to where he sat, so I didn't know anything until one of our guys came back and told me about it. The boss was in the restroom and they were gone before he got done, so he had to be brought up to speed.

Dude was tried in Federal court and is serving 30 years. He disappeared as surely as if they dropped him in a hole, which is kind of what they did, when you think about it.

My experience is very limited:  I've only worked for one corporation during my entire career.  Breaks my heart seeing what Boeing turned into.  

But this reminds me of two more stories:

Sometime in the 80's, a very high Boeing Commercial Airplane executive stationed overseas (Thailand IRC, somewhere from Asia) comes back to the US with a very young girl.  Turnes out it wasn't his stepdaughter or nanny or whatever, but his "wife".  Publicly fired; "publicly" in this case means there was an article in the Boeing News about it.


Another:  sometime in the late 80's a high Boeing Aerospace Company (anyone remember them?) executive's office is raided by the FBI.  They pull his computer and all his files.  Fired by the BAC President (Mark Miller) right on the spot.  Never heard any details about that one.

At one job there was a woman working the front desk of the hotel, she took a vacation and the owner claimed she
had not shown up for work for 2 weeks so a voluntary quit. What a shock that was for her, she had gotten carried away with
giving herself ever grander and grander job titles until at one point she was actually telling people that she owned the place.
Everyone was sick of her shit, she had a case going for years but I don't think it went anywhere.

Mid-1980s. I'd left a job with a GM dealership. I spoke to the service manager a few months later and found that Jerry (not his real name) got fired for ordering parts  for his truck and charging them to warranty repair orders. He was one of those snaky guys you meet in most every business. He'd go into the stack of new unassigned repair orders and pull a few out of the booklets they were in, order the parts, then scrap the repair order.
SM said they presented him with surefire evidence of over $800 worth of parts but were sure that he'd stolen a LOT more than that.
They let him walk without prosecution or restitution.