Car dealership manager backtracks and says it’s a prank after employee quits in response to being told he was fired for refusing to buy a car from the manager: ‘I already had a better job that was able to start me immediately’ – FAIL Blog

We all know the topics that you’re told to avoid at all costs when it comes to the workplace. It’s ingrained in us as a part of corporate and general working culture. While there might be some brash cowboys out there who aren’t afraid to dive into any topic, they can be sure that they’re not their HR department’s biggest fan. And if you pester your colleague about one of those topics one too many times, you can be sure that you’re going to have a message from HR wanting to have a “quick catch-up” with you the following morning.

Amongst the list of topics that “aren’t work appropriate,” we should probably make an addition for “pranks” and other jokes played at the expense of others. Fun that is being had at another’s expense leaves way too many ways for things to go sideways and create major HR issues.

When this sales manager tried to tell an employee that he was going to be fired for buying a car at another dealership, he called the manager’s bluff and quit on the spot, as luckily he already had another job lined up. We’ve all probably imagined a moment like this, quitting in spectacular fashion, but seldom, if ever, would many of us just have another job that we could fall back on like this.