The last job.

We referred to the company as 'Survivor Island' after the TV show as people either disappeared and never came back on Mondays or there were retrenchments weekly. So the joke became, "Pssst, who's been voted off Survivor Island this week?"

The afternoon before one round of retrenchments, my manager found a list on the printer of who was going to be given the flick the next morning. His name was on the list. Oops. He disappeared that night and it took management two days to tell us that our manager wasn't coming back (I actually found out from someone outside the company).

The only IT guy's name was also on the list so he went, but management forgot to get all the system information and passwords. Conveniently the ex-IT guy switched his phone off for several months.

I left there five months ago and my ex-coworker recently e-mailed me, demanding to know what terrible things I said about him during my salary review (which was more than eight months ago, highly confidential and I didn't even mention his name). Huh? So the remaining managers are using the memory of me as a management tool!