Thursday 8 December 2011

"Help Wanted"


Why it is never good when you see an advert posted for your own job...

After seeing a ‘help wanted’ advert in a newspaper for a position that looks suspiciously like your own and included your boss’s phone number, what might you do? We recently came across this tale and this is exactly what happened to an employee of an architect’s firm in Florida.

The employee, confused, believing they were about to lose their job, made the rash decision to go to the architect’s office and erase an eye watering seven years worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5m (£1.5m).

Naturally the employee was caught, arrested, charged... and then fired.



Making matters even worse, it turns out the job was for the owner’s wife’s business.

Wondering whether the employee submitted an application for the other role? Probably not.