What have you seen people fired for at your agency/ies? (This is meant to give some lessons for others on here)

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Mostly lay offs due to revenue shortfalls or budget cuts (not truly a firing but feels the same way to the person affected). But for cause, I have seen: an affair with an underling that became public knowledge ( and rumors that he was diddling more than that woman), stealing from petty cash/expense funds, sharing racist emails, just being bad at their job, and one person for having a huge file associated with them linking them to all sorts of poor behavior from gender/weight/race discrimation to causing a woman to try to kill herself.

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Nope just genuinely interested in learning from the faults of others.

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Saw a CD get fired because our POS, incompetent GAD threw the CD under the bus completely undeservedly.

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What?

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I feel like getting actually fired doesn't happen too often. The only one I've witnessed was a creative who snuck something inappropriate (I never knew what) into some work that almost* made it in front of the client. Must have been super inappropriate...

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Mostly seen just layoffs, but the two times I know of people being fired, it was for dropping the ball while being out sick and not getting coverage for a shoot, and the other was for sexual harassment

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In short, people get fired for the usual, expected reasons, ad agencies are no different from anywhere else. Even the CD who was fired by incompetent super - pretty much standard practice. (Former GSW.)

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Cheating on expense reports, drunkenly insulting clients, hiding in the mother's room napping while nursing moms had it reserved, lying in the interview/hiring process, stalking a coworker...

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Banging in an office. Filming the people who were banging in the office without them knowing .

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You sounds like you would be into corporal punishment and interning families who had a member commit a crime.

Yes I witness a producer been fired right in front of me. Not a pretty picture

No, they all went through the probation process and were escorted away from the office when we weren't there.

I've seen a few people get out-right fired - general incompetency (seen this a few times), not high enough billing %, boss hated them. Had one coworker fired for general incompetency and it was warranted, to the point that some people questioned whether she lied on her resume.

Fired 2 of my reports after discovering their flame wars on slack. Slack has taken out a number of staffers over the past year.

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