sacked for the love of a video...
Many many moons ago (during my sixth form days) i used to work behind a bar in one of the local nightclubs. While all of my mates would be out on the lash I got paid to laugh at the various states they found themselves in and as long as my till balanced and I did my job noone cared.

One of my mates, a lad called Chris, came out one night and pulled a lass called Caz (think it was new years eve). They started seeing each other, he was completely under the thumb within weeks.

About two weeks before his birthday in June she finishes it saying that "it wouldn't work". He was absolutely gutted (being head over heels for this girl) and drank himself into an absolute state for the next week or so... until we found out that she'd been cheating on him and sleeping with some other waif behind his back.

*Cue the revenge plan*

In an effort to cheer chris up, one of my mates took a photo of them that he had, scanned it & photoshopped galore, putting her head onto the body of a male pornstar and his head onto the body of a female pornstar in a still image (I'll leave the pose to your imagination). And me, being the gullable twat that I am, then agreed to take this still photoshop image and put it onto videotape using my TV-out on my PC.

Chris comes in on his birthday, walks up the stage to the DJ stand, as the DJ presses play so every screen throughout the nightclub was replaced with this image. Over 1300 people saw this over two floors. And started pissing themselves laughing. Chris was in tears laughing, doubled over the stand. The DJ was having a good laugh at it too.

Fair enough you might say. Cut to three weeks later and out of the blue (the monday after work) they tell us the three of us involved are sacked. Why? The aunt of this girl was downstairs when we pulled our little stunt and she came back later with a solicitor and threatened legal action (heh).

Still, we got full holiday pay out of it and the manager gave me a glowing reference because he thought it was funny as fuck. In his own words, "I've seen people get away with worse, you were just unlucky."

No great loss, within a week I'd managed to get another job for one of the competitors on better pay.

Apologies for length (especially if you saw the vid).
(phil_mcracken, Tue 28 Feb 2006, 10:01, Reply)