Banker Who Mooned Boss Can’t Challenge Firing
(CN) – An investment banker forfeited his $2 million corporate partnership when he mooned the boss and was fired, an Illinois appeals court ruled.
Jason Selch joined Wanger Asset Management as an investment analyst in 1994, staying with the company for over 10 years as it eventually merged with Columbia Management, a subsidiary of Bank of America.
A few weeks after that last merger in April 2005, Selch learned that his friend, Chris O’Dea, had been fired for refusing to accept a lower salary in his new position with Columbia.
He went to a conference room where a meeting was going on between Columbia’s New York-based COO Roger Sayler and Chicago chief investment officer Charles McQuaid.
Selch asked the men if he had a non-compete agreement with the company. Learning that he did not, Selch dropped his pants and mooned Sayler and McQuaid. After picking up his pants, Selch said he hoped Sayler would never return to the Chicago office, then he walked out of the conference room.
The men testified that Selch probably would have been fired on the spot if Bank of America CEO Keith Banks had been present at the meeting.
As it was, Sayler’s reaction was simply: “Wow, I don’t believe that just happened. We’ll have to figure our how to deal with that, we’ve got to, we’ve got more things to talk about.”
Though Sayler later instructed the human-resource team to give Selch a written warning, Banks insisted later that they fire Selch for his “egregious” behavior. McQuaid tried to save Selch’s job, but Banks ultimately fired Selch.
This caused Selch to forfeit contingency payments worth almost $2 million, which would have vested in a few months.
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I’m going to guess that this was so satisfying in sooo many different ways.Love the mouse this guy knew exactly what he was doing and decided to do it anyway.Wish I could have been a fly on the wall.ROFLMAO.