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Posted AT 12:05 PM EST on 21/12/05

You got fired for that?

Globe and Mail Update

A German company has implemented a strict, no-whining policy, using a two-moans-and-you're out rule. Two workers have since been fired for whining and two others have quit. In the U.S., one woman was suspended from her job in a library for spending too much time trying to rescue a trapped squirrel. These stories, and seven others, topped U.S. outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.'s ranking of the most unbelievable workplace events in 2005.

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