Borg,
I concur with your reasoning; however, I dispute the ultimate result.
It's difficult to put myself in the CEO's position (naturally,
), but I can't imagine myself responding, in what appears to me, such an UNREASONABLE manner.
I might well be peed off, but I certainly wouldn't have fired the guy.
I guess the moral of the story, as Slasher well knows, is don't drink with management.
How sad life can be.