"As a marketing director at a national trade show in New Orleans, I fired an incompetent marketing associate back in the Chicago office who had cost my budget $20,000 at the show and lied about it.

"My supervisor thought I was wrong and said all I wanted to do was embarrass her. I said, 'If you feel that way, then you have my immediate resignation, and I'll clean out my office when I return.'

"I then left the convention floor." — Steven London, Chicago, Illinois