Sounds like a good example of the Peter Principle

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Mar 31, 2015
11:05:32am

bluecheese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle

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bluecheese

Previous username: Speculum
Bio page: bluecheese
Joined: Dec 14, 2004
Last login: Jun 16, 2024
Total posts: 14,212 (36 FO)

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Time

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Buffalo

3/31/15 10:48am

nothing

Schultz is back

3/31/15 10:48am

literally

jota

3/31/15 12:29pm

Didn't do any work. Napped at their desk daily.

SandYFan

3/31/15 10:51am

RE: Didn't do any work. Napped at their desk daily.

johnnycarson

3/31/15 10:55am

Withheld info and sabotaged others in the group. Also spent too much time on an

Texas Hammer

3/31/15 10:52am

That sounds like a normal Tuesday morning in your office

CougarHut

3/31/15 10:52am

Monday is getting thrown under the bus, Tuesday is withholding info, Wednesday

Texas Hammer

3/31/15 10:56am

Friday: Drink while at work day!

Deadpool

3/31/15 11:10am

Drinking usually takes place on Thursday night, so Fridays are a quasi workday.

Texas Hammer

3/31/15 11:15am

repeatedly made false allegations of discrimination and harrassment

byujag

3/31/15 10:52am

Spent all day on Cougarboard

DodgerMike

3/31/15 10:52am

"it's called research!" -ds7

snowbird

3/31/15 10:53am

D'oh!

EEcougar

3/31/15 10:56am

Didn't complete a project, left early, and lied about it.

cougfanblue

3/31/15 10:53am

In a very heated discussion with his subordinates, punched a hole in a wall.

Hawk in the 303

3/31/15 10:53am

nice. hole in the wall is a good touch.

johnnycarson

3/31/15 10:54am

They hid his phone in the ceiling tiles.

CougDogg-e-Dogg

3/31/15 10:54am

Purchased products from a non-Gephart approved business

BGRTHNUMEGO

3/31/15 10:54am

Looked at porn

CopperLix

3/31/15 10:55am

How anyone would decide to do that at work is beyond me. Addictions must

Big Daddy D

3/31/15 10:57am

Paid a bunch of money to get Gephart approved

CougarHut

3/31/15 10:55am

suck

JOPE

3/31/15 10:56am

Are you an attorney? I keep getting ads for a seminar called "Hire slow, fire

Mikey

3/31/15 10:59am

Yup

JOPE

3/31/15 11:03am

Always left the fries in the fryer too long.

Funke

3/31/15 10:57am

Tried to hide $500M of lost raw good inventory......it wasn't pretty!

Coug98

3/31/15 10:58am

How can you lose that much?

Texas Hammer

3/31/15 10:59am

Our raw materials are expensive and have shelf lifes

Coug98

3/31/15 11:02am

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Veracruz

3/31/15 10:58am

Couldn't stay away from the booze.

SEABYU1

3/31/15 10:58am

I once had a temp job in the basement of a hospital picking supplies.

PharmD

3/31/15 10:58am

falsified data

MoveTheChains

3/31/15 10:59am

Got in way over his head

HiLife

3/31/15 11:01am

Sounds like a good example of the Peter Principle

bluecheese

3/31/15 11:05am

Precisely

HiLife

3/31/15 11:08am

Just happened.

bluecheese

3/31/15 11:01am

Technically, she resigned, but if she didn't she would have been fired for

Y05

3/31/15 11:03am

Had sex on his desk with the cleaning lady and then tried to bribe her with a

pink22

3/31/15 11:03am

Did the sweater have a red dot?

Cosmo's Kid

3/31/15 11:04am

Is that sort of thing frowned upon?

BIG XII Coug

3/31/15 11:05am

I'm not seeing the problem.

Real Men Wear Blue

3/31/15 11:24am

Thought he knew how to run the company better than the owners

Kilgore Trout

3/31/15 11:04am

She got cross-wise with our office manager and picked a fight with her.

ebv

3/31/15 11:05am

Spent hours a day engineering an elaborate bracketed popularity contest for

Hambone

3/31/15 11:06am

Looked at me wrong

Ebolarama

3/31/15 11:07am

boss

johnnycarson

3/31/15 11:10am

RE: What did the last person to get fired at your work do to get fired?

Born2Fish

3/31/15 11:11am

That is a serious personality disorder. Probably been through multiple jobs.

bluecheese

3/31/15 11:17am

He'd worked there over 30 years.

Born2Fish

3/31/15 11:29am

Wow. Did this just start or did they tolerate his behavior all that time?

bluecheese

3/31/15 11:36am

bad attitude --

lightmann

3/31/15 11:12am

Boss found out he was a Ute

kimdaddy35

3/31/15 11:13am

Took the company credit card and put his monthly expenses on it

donnerstag

3/31/15 11:24am

We just fired a guy earlier this month for always coming in very late, leaving

Japan Coug

3/31/15 11:27am

How to keep your job:

PharmD

3/31/15 11:34am

The vast majority of the time, this works just fine. Not sure why it's such a

Japan Coug

3/31/15 11:41am

Stole from me.

HighHorse

3/31/15 11:36am

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BYUCoug11

3/31/15 11:41am

Just general incompetence. Which is a problem when you are doing bankruptcies

vegasnative

3/31/15 11:44am

Punched a coworker

Gente_Boa

3/31/15 12:26pm

I got attacked by an angry co-worker once. He just got sent to anger management

Texas Hammer

3/31/15 12:50pm

Was his name Andy?

THE KlD

3/31/15 6:01pm

The final straw was not cleaning a patient's arm before putting a needle in it

KingDave

3/31/15 1:29pm

Guy spent more time managing his fantasy football leagues than his clients.

wcj99

3/31/15 2:06pm

Threw weekly temper tantrums

jxncoog

3/31/15 5:39pm

She was on drugs...

RexIdaCoug

3/31/15 5:52pm

not hitting quota

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