u/portent-wreaths-7k

After our first baby arrived, my husband and I did the math to see who would stay home or if daycare would be more suitable. It turned out that after all his work expenses like transportation and formal attire, his net salary would only be about $6,000 if our little son went to daycare. So, we decided it was smarter for him to leave his job and stay home to raise the kids for a few years. He packed his belongings from the office and wrote his resignation, ready to give them two weeks' notice. Early the next morning, he had a scheduled meeting with his manager. He walked into the meeting intending to submit his resignation, but before he could open his mouth, his manager informed him that they were letting him go. In the end, they gave him an 8-week severance package, and even covered our health insurance for a few extra months. He came home that day absolutely cracking up. He stayed home for about six years, and for the first year and a half, he was even able to collect unemployment benefits. When he re-entered the job market, he started with part-time work and then full-time, eventually ending up working for an owner who was looking to retire, and who later sold us the entire company. After taking over the business, my husband now earns about four times what he used to make at the place where they fired him. We still laugh about it to this day.

What's the fastest you've ever seen someone ruin it for themselves like that? My job is a very normal corporate job, nothing strange. But recently we hired someone who seemed determined to cause chaos from her very first day. She turned everything into a dramatic scene.
She would file formal complaints against her colleagues for 'making her feel incompetent' when they pointed out a mistake that needed fixing. I mean, the mistake was real and had to be corrected, but just because she got embarrassed, she became the victim. Then, with utter audacity, she took a presentation I had been working on for weeks, changed the colors, swapped a few slides, and went to our manager saying she had 'improved' it and deserved 60% of the credit. On top of that, she used to break down crying whenever she was asked a direct question about her work, claiming people were 'ganging up on her' but could never explain how. Look, I'm all for protecting employees, of course, but this wasn't bullying; she was simply someone who refused to take any responsibility.
The final nail in the coffin, from what I heard, was a company-wide conference a few weeks ago. Apparently, she cornered a VP from another department (who is married, by the way) and made a very inappropriate advance on him after the main event. The news spread like wildfire, of course, and she was fired last week for this gross misconduct.
So, has anyone here worked with someone who self-destructed like this? I need to hear it so I don't feel so alone.