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Last night I met up with one of my former co-workers. We browsed through IKEA and chatted about our jobs and lives. She asked how the new job was going and I told her about life at the health club, including what I considered to be the very entertaining tick debacle. When I finished, I asked how life was at my old job. She said the new employee that had started a few months before I left was actually fired (a first for the company) for various reasons including because they gave him $10K towards moving costs and he spent it all without ever really moving here. He had rented an apartment locally, but never sold his home in California or moved his family here. Instead, he spent some $8K on blenders, toasters, kitchenaid mixers and a microwave oven for his apartment. He also expensed a trip to NY City with his family, stating it was a scouting trip for schools for his daughter. The company let him know on Friday that he was being terminated for that as well as lack of performance and continual absences.

And he completely freaked out.

He refused to leave. He screamed and yelled. The company, a very dignified group of elite scientists had to call the POLICE to come and take him away. They had to take him away in the police cruiser and everything. My friend said she was right in the thick of the action in her new office location, but at one point was concerned for her safety thinking this guy just might go postal or something. For a place that requires government Secret clearance, passwords, and an FBI background check, how exciting must it be to have someone who requires a police escort upon termination?

Totally beats my tick story by a landslide.