Marketing executive sacked over dirty company car

A marketing executive’s job was gone in 90 seconds after his boss sacked him for having a dirty company car.

In a case at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), the executive said that, on July 6, he was on his way out of the office to have lunch when the managing director asked him to join him in his car “for a chat”.

The managing director drove the car 20 yards to where the worker’s company car was parked.