The Idiot at work is no longer there

Since I haven't updated this blog in awhile and I had made in the past here some detailed posts about an annoying problem at work, the guy who wouldn't stop trying to make problems, I decided to post an update. Three weeks ago he was finally fired. He proved the adage, "give an idiot enough rope and he'll find a way to hang himself". Well, this guy certainly did that. He was warned time and time again to knock off his crap, crap that I've gone in much detail about in prior posts. He received so many warnings. All he had to do was shut up and stop trying to make problems. After coming in to work drunk and belligerent, he still had a job, he just received more warnings. He and I had some explosive conflicts and I warned him very strongly to stop and he might quiet for a few days but would be right back to trouble making in a week or two .

Finally one day he hid the keys that I needed to open everything up in the morning and that was it. He wanted a confrontation, he got one. I didn't yell, I just persistently asked him why he felt the need to engage in this sort of garbage. At first he tried to be sarcastic but he didn't know how to deal with my relentless persistence and finally took a punch at me to try to scare me off. It didn't work. I kept after him and finally he threatened to slit my throat, a threat I recorded on tape. Finally there were no more chances for him. His luck ran out and he was finished. Now he has to find a job at a place that will tolerate him and I am sure few places will tolerate him as much as the company he used to work for did.