I worked at an automotive dealership. I was terminated from my job yesterday because I inputed self created email addresses into customer files in order to receive their customer satisfaction surveys (I believe every or most customers receive one that have an email on file) that I would fill out. We were recently informed that our scores were so low that it was impeding ownership from being able to expand their dealership network (they own at leaf 4 new car dealerships). In a department meeting we discussed ways to improve our scores and one of the suggestions was to input self created emails to which my direct boss said "whatever it takes - if you want to add your own emails, go right ahead". I did this on several occasions within the last several weeks and our new general manager noted this and terminated my employment. I didn't grieve it because I didn't want my boss getting in trouble because like myself, I don't believe he felt it was wrong, he felt we were doing the company/ownership a favor. We used to be heavily bonused on our scores individually but that recently changed to where our scores were counted together and if we reached the level to which the dealer was paid a bonus (we were informed that the dealership lost tens of thousands of dollars ($100 per vehicle sold) a year in addition to impeding their expansion plans because of our low scores). I had never done this when the bonus was individually based. I had worked there for 5 months. My direct boss was never informed or kept in the loop of the new general managers decision and he found out about my termination minutes after it was issued. I do have at least one witness that will back up my claim about what my direct boss said. He will probably admit it too, as I don't think he felt it was a violation. I never said anything at the time because I didn't want to get him in trouble/fired as well but now I feel I've been terminated unjustly without warning.