Not really fired or anything I did, but so satisfying nonetheless.

I was working in a shipping dept where all processing was done with computers. There were occasions where changes would have to manually be made in the system and the general population around me couldn’t be counted on to make the changes correctly. (Most were of another culture and were excellent, hard workers, if you kept their instrustions simple.) So, I became the official guy to handle all the shipments requiring special handling (changing shipping terms, COD, special delivery instructions, etc). I was totally happy to have this responsibillty, by the way. I felt good about being “that guy” they could rely on. Until they didn’t appreciate me anymore.

There were many personality problems in the department and the supervisor/manager weren’t backing me up as they should have. By chance, I was invited to move to another department within the company and I accepted the position.

So one day after I was into my new job someone from the shipping dept approaches me and mentions that there had been an ultra high priority package from one of the top level execs sent down to shipping on a Friday. It was Fedex and had to be delivered “Saturday delivery”. These packages could only be entered as “Next day air” and Friday packages would automatically be delivered Monday— unless someone went in and manually changed the shipping terms to Sat Delivery. That used to be me. Apparently the shipping supervisor gave this package to one of the workers down there to process for Sat delivery and they just went ahead and ran it through as it was entered, Next Day air for Monday delivery. Whoops! (Hehehehe)

The shipping manager got called onto the carpet for that one and apparently got reamed out big time. Too bad he didn’t appreciate it when he had someone there he could count on to not mess that stuff up.