I *was* going to be fired...
...only I'd left the day before.

Had an office job in Sydney for a large property development company/hotel chain/shopping centre company. Pretty bloody large company.

They were doing a rather contraversial redevelopment project of wharfside property adjacent to Sydney harbour bridge and the main newspaper (Sydney Morning Herald) posted an online survey for their readers to guage how the local population felt about it.

An email came round from the MD of the whole company noting the survey with the line "I don't think I need to tell you which way to vote".

This was like a red rag to a bull for me. The newspaper was asking for genuine feedback from the city and this knob jockey not only wanted to pervert the figures but wanted to steal my freedom of opinion.

So I did something very very bad.

I forwarded the email to the editor of the newspaper with a note explaining what had happened and suggesting they may want to disregard the figures from the survey.

You should liken this to the editor of the Times being sent an email authored by the MD of Tesco that totally proves they're a twunt.

I noticed the survey went offline about an hour later. End of the day I finished my work there and left.

Two days later I get a phone call, seems that my former employer had been trying to track me down. Since I was a temp that had no real details for me and were thinking of getting the police involved on the charge of industrial sabotage.

I vented my opinions about the actions of the MD, I was asked to apologise in writing to the head of dept I'd worked for. I declined the offer and decided not to put them down for a reference ;-)
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Wed 15 Aug 2007, 16:27, Reply)