Embarrassing Ways To Lose A Job / Employment Blunders

Dog Sexual Harassment

Mok and Lai, had been plucked from obscurity under a program initiated by King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Although the pair won applaud from police for their work in sniffing out drugs at northern Thailand's Chiang Rai airport, many passengers complained about their behavior – so the pair have been fired.

"He liked to pee on luggage while searching for drugs inside," Mok's former handler, Police Lieutenant Colonel Jakapop Kamhon, said. "He also liked to hold on to women's legs."


Bad employee bad! Straight to Gender Sensitivity classes for you and no unemployment benefits!


Not Seeing Straight

A Chinese court has jailed two officials after they let a blind contractor build a bridge which collapsed during construction and injured 12 people.

"When they knew the bridge was being built by a blind contractor, they did not stop it," the court reports said, adding the contractor had changed the blueprint without getting a professional to look at the design.

Xinhua did not explain how the contractor was able to run the project considering his inability to see.


A Ticker To Ride


An Italian senator's boast on television that he cheated traffic jams in Rome during a visit by President George W. Bush by calling an ambulance may cost him a court appearance, officials said on Sunday.

Conservative opposition senator Gustavo Selva risked being late for a TV interview on Saturday because streets around the Senate were blocked for Bush's visit.

So he dialed 118 for an ambulance asking to be rushed to his heart specialist -- giving the TV studio's address. The emergency services were not amused.
The incident came a few days after senators were criticized for demanding that their cafeteria in parliament start serving ice-cream, even though the streets around the Senate house some of the Italian capital's most famous ice-cream restaurants.


My dog is racist. Not me

A Belgian businessman rejected a Nigerian job applicant because the businessman said his own dog was racist and would bite non-whites.