My Best man's ex wife was a Personnel Manager at a well known Pharmaceutical company...
She had to conduct a disciplinary for a senior manager who went out with some clients one night and had a wee too many drinks.

One of the clients lodged an official complaint as they felt uncomfortable after said manager urinated in the street and then declared,"Let's go and watch some lesbian porn!"

Because the manager's boss was based in America they would have had to pay for him to fly over to the UK at great expense to oversee the disciplinary.

So the result was that all parties agreed to a 'redundancy' package somewhere around the £50,000 mark along with a neutral reference to any future employer.

A few weeks later my HR manager friend received a postcard from some exotic island thanking her for the money.

"The fucking bitch!" was her response in a 'Smack my bitch up' style twist to the end of the tale.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 16:53, Reply)