People share their stories of the worst employees they had to fire

[post_page_title]Need to monitor the situation[/post_page_title]

I witnessed the following story play out in real-time. So, this IT guy and his boss were setting up a new work station. In the process, the IT guy dropped the computer monitor and it was wrecked.

Need to monitor the situation

Then, completely out of the blue, he went on a rave about how he wasn’t going to pay for the destroyed monitor, and peppered it with, um, colorful language. The manager simply stood there stone-faced, waiting for him to finish. When he did, he said that legally they couldn’t make him pay for something that was an honest mistake, but since he cussed him out – he was fired!

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