Reading this article stunned me: Papa John’s founder resigns as chairman after using N-word on conference call
A simply mind blowing story. Over the years I’ve seen plenty of people make horrible public gaffes. It’s hard to imagine coming up with something worse to say. By a man who worked really hard to build a company into something huge.
Psychoanalyzing people based at a distance is ineffective. However, reading this, and looking over his list of other public faux pases, I wonder if he subconsciously wanted to be fired. It explains a lot, really.