re: Stupid ways to get fired? Got any good stories?

My manager at the shitty finance company I worked at had an expensive coke habit.

To help pay for it she would wait until the branch closed, and everyone else left. Then she would take cash out of the week's bank deposit. To hide the fact that the cash was missing, she would reverse a large loan payment made that week (essentially removing the money from the till). But, to hide the fact that she reversed the payment, she would give the loan a one month extension - taking the payment that was reversed and basically putting it after the maturity date.

She had been doing this for months. She also made a fake loan in her husband's name. She took the money from that, and kept extending the monthly payment.

Eventually we got audited, and all hell broke loose. Corporate HR had to come down and interview the entire branch to make sure that we weren't in on it. We all knew that she was a druggie, and had told the district manager many times, but he wouldn't listen.

She died of an OD a few years back. Which is sad, because she left behind two children.