Some people get flack at their jobs for taking too many days off, or perpetually coming in late. Those things are common, so when they happen no one bats an eye.
There are other people, however, who get in huge trouble (or even fired) at their jobs for seriously bizarre reasons. On Wall Street, those incidents become legend — the stories get passed around trading floors, become lessons for newbies, and if we're lucky, get leaked to the media.
Business Insider collected a dozen ways that Wall Streeters have gotten in some seriously hot water in the workplace.
Take note. Seriously.
Bringing an inappropriate item such as a fake grenade to work
It's probably not the best idea to order something that resembles an explosive and have it sent to your office.
EXAMPLE: Last April, a Nomura employee had a UPS package sent to the office containing a novelty grenade on wooden plaque with a sign reading "Complaint Department: Please Take a Number," sent to the office.
The object was discovered during a routine screening causing parts of World Financial 2 to be evacuated on initial fears that it might be a real explosive.
It was later determined to be a fake grenade, but the bank placed the employee on administrative leave for bringing an "inappropriate item" to work.
Bitching about your bank on Facebook
Be careful who you're friends with at work on Facebook. Also, be careful with what you post on the social networking site.
EXAMPLE: An RBS employee was fired without compensation after one of her co-workers told their boss about some Facebook statuses she posted.
After Kate Furlong read an article saying RBS would axe around 3,500 jobs, she posted, ''I speak for myself when I say WoOOOOooooOooooHOoooOooOoo' it was pretty damn obvious something like this was coming. I'm neither stupid nor naive ... and quite honestly it is the best news ever as far as I am concerned!''
Mooning your boss at the office
Don't expect to keep your job after showing your boss your naked rear-end.
EXAMPLE: Back in 2005, Chicago-based investment banker Jason Selch was fired and forfeited his $2 million partnership when he mooned his bosses.
At the time, Selch was an employee with Wagner Asset Management when it merged with Columbia Asset Management, a subsidiary of BofA.
Shortly after the merger, Selch learned that a friend of his had been fired for not accepting lower compensation with Columbia.
This really ticked him off, so he went into the conference room where some execs, New York-based COO Roger Sayler and Chicago-based CIO Charles McQuaid, were meeting and asked if he had a non-compete agreement. He did not.
That's when he dropped his pants and mooned his superiors and told Sayler he hoped he would never return to Chicago.
Selch was eventually fired and he ended up suing the firm, but an Illinois appeals court said last month he deserved to be fired.
From the judge's ruling:
"Plaintiff violated the rules and regulations in the (employee) handbook by behaving in a disruptive, unruly and abusive manner - 'mooning' Sayler and McQuaid and informing Sayler that he was not welcome in that office and that plaintiff hoped he would never return to the Chicago office - that also may be considered obscene behavior."
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