Roleplaying Forum example: this troper repeatedly clashed with the admin of an [=RPing=] forum over policy and style, and did it knowing he was safe from being banned. Why? Because he was basically singlehandedly keeping the site alive. Eventually he took over the admin's position, and there was much rejoicing.

A young man at a (Catholic, mind you) highschool got three different girls pregnant by his senior year, was busted multiple times (on campus) for drugs, and should've been failing several of his classes. Why wasn't he kicked out? He was the best basketball captain the school had seen in years, silly!

Just because he's a (highly skilled) Jerk Jock and possibly a CompleteMonster...I wasn't there, so I don't know what I'd do.

While not quite as extreme as some examples, i have gotten away with an extended list of offenses against school, class, and teacher rules including but not limited to, back talking to the teacher, tardiness, eating and drinking in a class full of computers and delicate electronics, bypassing school security to play games and/or stream video, open discrimination against work done by other students in the form of deleting projects that have Rap, worshiping ego worshiping, and anything related to twilight. The only reason why the keep me is because i have been almost single-handedly keeping the school news up and running for 4 years now.

i would like to add bypassing school security to load mass effect 2 on the content director computer. it's getting to the point that i am just messing around to see what they will put up with.

This troper knows several organizations like that (and works for one). After signing his latest contract, he jokingly told his co-workers the exact date they could expect him to start acting like a complete git.

In Italy, even harrassing co-workers isn't grounds for dismissal. This troper has a number of friends who have horror stories to tell about the hazing they received from co-workers at Italian companies.

Subverted at this troper's workplace, at a software company. Writing horrible code that no one else can understand is one of the classic forms of UltimateJobSecurity mentioned on the main page. Our codebase has its fair share of that, from three different coders who are no longer with the company. The worst of the incompetents was even named Bush. They're long gone now, and those of us who are left work hard to maintain the messes they left behind and occasionally fix some of the more egregious mistakes. I should note that this is only even remotely possible because we're using the Delphi language, which was designed specifically to be easy to read and understand the code. Had our projects been in C++, it would have been UltimateJobSecurity for those guys for sure.

This Troper has UltimateJobSecurity in his football(soccer) team despite being not very accurate or technical, but is the only player in the team who has enough stamina to play an entire game as central midfielder.

My father runs a law office. A former, grossly incompetent, receptionist tried to invoke this trope by having a, let's call it ''unique'' filing system. That is to say, she'd leave various forms, briefs, bills, contracts, etc. in a jumbled mess that only she could understand instead of using the filing cabinet three feet from her desk. Needless to say, her attempt failed miserably.

One of my high school math teachers can't be fired because he's union and he stuck to the job long enough. Never mind that many people are convinced he's insane. (I learned NOTHING in his class. I just had to make sure my notes and tests looked freakishly neat to please him, and trust me, this was enough to drive me nuts, him constantly talking about his crap childhood aside).If you get put in his class, tough luck getting out, because the least amount of students are always put in his class because most of them will try to transfer out anyways.

At this troper's job he used to work for, he came late often, had several schedule conflicts, dropped a ton of merchandise, didn't get along with a lot of associates and was often forgetful of his career rank when talking to superiors. However, to let him go was not a good idea since he could single-handedly keep his department stocked, was one of the hardest working associates the store had ever had since opening and the only one in his department who could recall where an item was located in his department better than the back of his hand and was the only one who knew how to use every option on his scanner. Oh and the customers liked him...