You're Fired!!

One of my classmate and I are in charge of recruiting, scheduling, and coordinating all the driving for recruiting weekends. We use 15 passenger vans to shuttle the recruits where they need to go as well as out for social activities. The grad program coordinator give us a fair amount of authority in all this, including some say in who can and can't drive. For whatever reason, it's not uncommon to have people volunteer who are either supremely creepy or have a track record of being irresponsible. Since we depend upon them pretty heavily to show up where and when they're supposed to and we don't want them making the recruits uncomfortable, we've started being a bit more selective about who we allow to drive over the past year or so.

Apparently now we have to add terrible driving and general jack@$$-ness to the list of things to watch out for. There was one driver in particular who a track record for being a creep and a jack@$$, but he's a 3rd year and had never been a problem around recruits before, so we let it slide. However, Friday night I started hearing all sorts of complaints about what a terrible driver he is. Later that night he and Dallas took some of the recruits out to a bar. Dallas (having heard and witnessed the terrible driving) left him an easy parking spot when they got to the bar. What does Captain Dumb@$$ do? He decides it would be funny to pull his van around the other side of Dallas' already parked van so closely that the students in Dallas' van wouldn't be able to get out. Yes, hilarious, and oh so mature. Except he freaking sideswiped Dallas' van, leaving visible damage to both vehicles. What an idiot!! FIRED!!!

Let's say I took the keys from him when I got to the bar and removed him of his driving duties for the next day. Fortunately the students laughed about it and made fun of his stupidity for the rest of the weekend, although they were understandably reluctant to ride with him again.