Posts tagged illegal
Fired! Civil Duty: two different ends of the spectrum
Oct 20th
One fired because he was “too intimidating” (is that a real reason?) and the second because he went over his bosses head. The difference? One received a severance package that will ensure a clean separation, while the other is let loose after nearly three decades of service and is now suing to get his job back.
Keep your employment away from termination
A small Florida town has fired Bill Vance, its Town Manager, because he was too intimidating. The town’s Library Director has told the the town commissioners during a special meeting that she along with other staff members “are being intimidated, being ambushed.” Vance’s firing comes as a result of “such an amount of adverse comments.” Vance was terminated with a six-month severance package.
In New York, a Health and Hospitals Corporation employee has been fired for what he claims to be “unjust reasons”. According to Naren Gupta, his problems began when while serving as a senior management consultant for HHC, he discovered more than $1,000,000 in payments being made to Chase Manhattan Bank without a contract Read the rest of this entry »
Being a Peeping Tom will get you Fired!
Oct 19th
Countless hours of free, uncensored, and readily available pornography on the internet enough for you? It wasn’t enough for Michael Brunner,
who worked at the Lincoln Center Theater as the stage manager for the Musical, South Pacific. Brunner’s perversion stretched much farther than the internet, as he allegedly employed an iPhone to videotape a female cast member as she undressed in her dressing room between acts. A little voyeurism goes a long way, or perhaps not, since Lincoln Center Theater has now announced that they have terminated Brunner’s contract following an Oct. 16 arraignment on charges of unlawful surveillance.










