People with Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degrees (United States)

I was terminated for being honest about reporting a 8% negative variance in physical inventory. I wasn't obnoxious or threatening about the incident.

The plant I was at was subject for sale or shutdown and perhaps the timing of the event seemed to fray the nerves of division management. Though the termination, in my opinion was unjust, I am relieved and unburdened by my decision. I am boycotting my former employers products but wish my former co-workers well.

In summary, you work to live not live to work.

While I was working for a Public Health Department, I was injured doing the job of several lazy nurses who refused to get their hands dirty cleaning up their own storage area. Of course, no good deed goes unpunished, so I destroyed multiple disks in a freak accident. This was just the chance the nurses and a new Health Officer, a female doctor, who was very green and very unqualified for the position went to work.

Every decision they could find that they failed to agree with, they blamed on me, even though all decisions of that level had to be made by the former Health Officer. They made up false problems that were clarified explained, and authorized in previous grant materials. And, probably the biggest lie of all, was to accuse me of not spending over $193,000; which was the direct responsibility of the Board of Health, as a mere Administrator, the position I held, could only spend $500 without authorization.

So while I was pumped full of narcotic drugs at successively higher levels waiting on surgery that eventually failed, they assembled all this manufactured information, held a "kangaroo court" in may absence an summarily fired me from my position while out on Worker's Comp, knowing full well I could not articulate a complete sentence, let alone defend my actions from false accusations.

The thing that I learned, a tough lesson as I look back upon it now, is hire an attorney to look out for your best interests if you suspect subterfuge may happen in your absence. If you do not trust you superiors or subordinates, never trust them when you are not in a position to take action to defend yourself. As its been said many, many times - you can rarely if ever, trust anyone in today's workplace, especially under qualified or incompetent supposed professional staffers, such as nurses and doctors or the female persuasion. The wield very sharp knives and like nothing better than to stab male professionals in the back with manufactured truths. Since the job wasn't worth what it paid, and I ended up permanently disabled, it just wasn't worth fighting for in my situation... but yours may be totally different. So get a lawyer to watch your back. You may recover where I did not. Good luck, and never ever trust a female doctor in a low paying position.