Employee Fired for Eating Pizza Wins Simply Fired Contest
Jim Garrison, a computer engineer who was fired for eating pizza that he was apparently not suppose to eat has won the Simply Fired contest. Here is part of his entry.
I had been working for a mortgage company as a developer for 18 months and things were going well. Then, one day I saw that a different group in my company had just finished up a pot-luck and had some pizza left over. I thought they would probably end up throwing it away and I was kind of hungry so I went for it ... I took a slice of pizza.
Apparently the employees who threw this pot luck were planning to take it home and were offended by my action. Now I thought we were all basically on the same team and if someone didn't like what I did they would tell me so and I would apologize and maybe offer to pay for the pizza. These employees ended up telling their manager, who told her vice president about what I did.
That is not a good reason to be fired. SFGate.com says Garrison did not identify the pizza firing employer. A list of Garrison's story as well as the stories of the other Simply Fired winners can be found here.
