Its been about a month now and the fall out has me dying with laughter.
To start things off, the CEO came in one day and handed my plant manager his termination papers, saying he had hired a new plant manager and was firing him from his position but would like for him to take a lesser position and stay on. This man was the best boss I've ever had. He genuinely tried his best to make every single employee feel appreciate and heard and I'm so glad he didn't take that demotion.
So, fast forward a week, and a piece of equipment went down. I did all the appropriate troubleshooting and went to my supervisor that the problem was in the programing and he needed to call in the plant engineer to fix it, since this piece of equipment was tied to a portion of the plant that could shut everything down. Well, he didn't call him. 3 hours later the production supervisor calls the engineer who states that he's drunk and can't come in, so I should do it. I refused since I don't have the experience or training to mess with the programming (I've had intro to PLC programming classes, this will be important).
The next day, after the equipment had been off all night, when I clock in I get called into the new plant managers office. He states that my refusal to fix it was unacceptable and I've had the training (no I hadn't) to fix it, and that they didn't need someone who wasn't a team player, keep in mind all the maintenance men there had been on the job less than 6 months. This would have devastated me…if I hadn't found a new job immediately after they fired the previous plant manager, starting off making more, and doing significantly less work.
So present day, 2 of the other maintenance from that plant have joined me at the new job, 1 quit for another opportunity, and one has put in his application here, the plant has had to scrap the 1 million dollar expansion, has lost their contract with one of their suppliers, and I'm loving every second of it. Icing in the cake, they've paid roughly $10,000 to put me through school with no contract about paying them back.
If you don't treat your employees well, it could tank your business.
TLDR: employer fired me for a stupid reason and it's snowballed into them nearly going out of business.