Think getting fired is bad? It gets worse.

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Think getting fired is bad? It gets worse
Del. employer sues ex-worker for lost profits, pay

The News Journal
05/05/2006

If you are reading this at the office, stop immediately and get back to work.

And don't make any personal phone calls. Or listen to music.

Instead, learn from the case of Drew Scopelliti, who earned $90,000 for eight months of work as sales director for U.S. Card Partner Services in Newark.

His former employer claims the 44-year-old, who now lives in Chicago, overstated his qualifications to get the job, and once hired, made too many personal phone calls and played with his iPod too much.

The company not only fired him in July, it is now demanding in a federal lawsuit that he pay back the $90,000 plus an additional $210,000 in profits that the company believes it lost because of his poor job performance.

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