I was basically fired by HP one time after working there for about 2 years.....
The manager of the team I was working on or I thought I was working on got it all started, one day I get an email from a woman who told me all the things I was not doing as part of her team...I did not understand, so I asked who I thought was my Manager, who said, yeah I forgot to tell you she’s your manager....
After several more major disagreements with this woman who came from HR to manage a team of IT Engineers....
The final straw was I was working on a big project that I had just wrapped up, she called me and said I was failing at my job, my major screw up was not completing an online ethics training course...I told her I have until Friday to do that, she said that was true for everyone except her team which committed to completing the training a week early...
I asked her, what was more important, completing the project for the customer or the ethics training...she said the ethics training. Immediately I told her, she was not qualified to manage Engineers and needed to go back to HR..
I knew my days were numbered but at that point I did not care...
He decided National needed an LED manufacturing facility so he bought a struggling one in upstate NY.
This came a quite a surprise to those of us working at National's LED facility in southern California.
As was his surprise in discovering National all ready had a successful LED facility.
So of course he doubled down on stupid and shut down the Hawthorne facility and merged operation with the one - HIS - in Albany. Few employees were willing to leave sunny southern California, so National 'lost the recipe' in the move.
The new facility ultimately failed. leaving hundreds unemployed, National with millions in losses, and no in-house LED capability.
This is why I love engineers!! Your a crap shoot to bring into meetings with customers but yours is a black & white world.