As Trump says......"You're Fired!"

So, to continue the not wanting to come to work thing and leaving early on a whim saga, I come to find out that the 1st shift foreman is really unhappy with one of the Parker people's performance of late, but really likes the guy and doesn't know what to do, but something has to be done. This man is African American, has as many teeth as most West Virginians, is 50 some years old, has a biatch of a wife that we believe she, at least, if not him too, does crack, and this man has the mentality of a 12 year old. He plays Yu Gi Oh, and collects comic books. Not the ones worth money, NEW ones. He falls asleep at his machine, calls off at least 3 days a month, and lately hasn't followed instructions and has been making bad parts.
Anyway, the foreman wants to know what we should do with this man. He's moved him to different machines (Different machines make different parts-some jobs easier than others) had him do secondary ops, sweep the floor, we are just out of things we can do with him since his work has gotten so poor.
So, yesterday, he tells his foreman that he has to leave at 1:00 so he can go to the post office because he got a notice from them that his comic books have come in.
Now, if that's what you are leaving for, you don't say it!!! You say you have a dr's appointment or your kid does or grandkid does or something. Your wife. Your wife has a dr's appointment and she can't drive herself because they're going to put those pupil dilating drops in her eyes..Yeah that's it. Besides, the post office is open until 5:00. You are done work at 3:30. That leaves an hour and a half to get to the post office and pick up the parcel of comic books after work. The thing I am not sure about is this: did he get the notice in the mail the day before, or did his wife call him at work (on the lunchroom pay phone) and tell him the notice was in that day's mail? Or was that the real reason for the early dismissal at all? He said he wanted to leave that early because he didn't want anyone to steal them. Who is going to steal them? It's the post office! Besides, if they were going to be stolen by some comic book thief postal worker, it would have been done as soon as they came in and they would have not mailed the notice to him!! So, he was written up for leaving work for non crucial matters. Then, at the end of the day, all of his previous written warnings were pulled from his personnel file along with the new one, and he was told that his services were no longer needed at PPC. Sad, but true..........