Those of you who saw the apprentice last night know that Stacey J was fired, not for poor job performance, but because the other team mates did not like her. Each said she was "crazy."

In all of my years working for fortune 500 companies, I have seen a good amount of people get fired. Of all those cases, I can not think of one that could be directly traced to bad performance. Nearly all of them were fired because of office politics and coworkers just not liking them.

This is not limited to lower level employees. I saw a chief technology officer of a very large company where I was employed get fired because the chief financial officer wanted him out (for purly personal reasons).

I guess I'm posting this because I thought it was interesting and represents something I've seen time and time again...