Putting The Gross Into Gross Misconduct

My general manager would receive monthly finance reports from me, and it was painfully obvious he wasn’t paying attention to any of them.

To test my theory, one month when margins slumped, I noted the reason as “poor cost control by local management.”

He never said a thing, but his superiors caught on and started an investigation into him.

A week later, he was suddenly fired on the same day as the head of HR was also let go. It wasn’t explained exactly what happened, but I did overhear a supervisor on the phone as I walked past his office:

Supervisor: “Yeah, the bogus company expenses were part of it, but I think it was the graphic CCTV footage of our offices being used as their ‘love shack’ that sealed the deal…”