Someone asked for a Lack-of-FU-Money story.
I went to work at a new company some years ago. I was there about a week when I received an email from the DBA on a different project. It had been blind-copied to everyone in the office and had been sent to his project manager. Let's just say he had nothing nice to say to the project manager.
Since I didn't know any of these people, I just kept quiet and observed.
A few months later the project manager took away the DBA's database privileges. For non IT folks, that's the equivalent of taking away a truck driver's keys. He's not going to be doing anything useful for the project under those circumstances.
A few days later, someone noticed that his office was empty (i.e, no person or belongings in it). A hand-written note had been taped to the door that simply said "Gone!!!"
No notice, no email to HR, nothing. Just "Gone!!!".
After 3 days he was considered to have abandoned his position and his job was ended.
A couple of days after payday, about 2 weeks later, he showed up at the office hoping to get his job back. He didn't.
But the story gets better.
A couple of months go by and I'm told that same project manager is not threatening to turn in the company to the Feds and claim "Fraud, waste and abuse" because the project has been mismanaged.
I think to myself, "But isn't he the project manager who would be responsible for said mismanagement? Surely he's not really planning to do that..."
A couple of weeks go by and I have to go over and ask him something. I step behind his desk to see the screen he wants to show me and I notice that his web browser on his 2nd monitor is on the federal fraud, waste and abuse website...
"Okey, dokey. He really is that stupid!"
Some time passes and the fellow is let go.
But it gets better.
Both of them have taken contracts to work in Iraq because they (a) can get a job and (b) it pays really well. They are stuck in the same 2 person shack in the desert working together...
We all laughed our asses off when we found that out.
Karma!!!!