Lizzie Borden
In the end, it was reading the Drudge Report that got me canned. I knew management wanted me gone, but this was ridiculous!
One afternoon, I phoned a friend from my federal agency office and read him a link from Drudge, recounting a brazen axe murder in London that morning. One of the managers listened in from the hall, and, apparently, saw this as a great way to finally get rid of me.
Two days later, the director informed that I was overheard making death threats, and I was seen as a axe-wielding danger to the entire office. I was to leave immediately.
She *had* to be joking, right?
Wrong.
My friend even called and confirmed that I'd been reading him a news account, but it was to no avail.
Sobbing the whole way, I was escorted to my car by the deputy director. Her parting words were: This isn't a reflection on your personal character, just on your professional one.?
Took almost two months to get my name cleared of the Lizzie Borden rap (and sucked up every dime I had.) Almost five months after The Incident?, I'm still unemployed. But, at least I don't work for idiots anymore.
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