Fired for reporting drunken co-worker!

BeachGrrl submitted 550 days ago

I worked for a year as a webmaster for a company in Georgia. The Marketing guy (I'll call him "Dick") was an old PR/Marketing dinosaur. He used to make me print out the website on paper, and then complained if certain copy or images were "below the fold", as if a printed website needed to follow the guidelines of printed brochures!

"Dick" would mark up his paper copy of the website with changes, and also would mark up the online status report I kept so my boss and "Dick" could track changes I was making to the site. He would meet with me almost every morning, reeking of booze, hands shaking, to go over the website and what he percieved as major issues: the way the site was printed out, why images were in a certain place on paper, etc. "Dick" never quite got it that it only matters how it looks online, not on paper for reference purposes.

The final straw was a horrible trip to New York and CT with my boss and "Dick". "Dick" drove us to CT from the NY airport, and both my boss and I later commented that we "Dick's" driving was so bad, we thought we were going to die! It finally reached the point where I met with my boss and an HR rep to discuss the fact that "Dick" was showing up for meetings at 8 a.m. smelling like a liquor store. My boss confirmed that he had smelled booze on "Dick's" breath previously on numerous occasions. He asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I just wanted them to be aware, as "Dick" was driving clients around in his car.

A month after this meeting, I was told I wasn't performing up to standard, and was being let go. "Dick" remained. Then a year later, the entire office closed and everyone else was out of a job since the company moved everything back up north. Ha!
BeachGrrl :p