DES MOINES &#8212 A salesman for a Fairfield tool company who falsely claimed on a radio morning show the he had completed a $385,000 sale has been denied jobless benefits.

Brett Lisk, 33, was fired from Anderson Tooling in June after Cedar Rapids radio KRNA broadcast a call he made telling the morning show he had just completed the big sale and would be “taking two weeks vacation and smoking a big cigar.”

The company said Lisk had not made a sale during his three months with the company, spent an $8,000 advance, used the company credit card to take family and friends out to dinner and had the company pay to fix his personal vehicle. He also lied about being fired from a previous job.

During a hearing on Lisk’s request for unemployment benefits, Jeff Anderson, the company’s manager, said Lisk had embarrassed the company.

“Customers were calling in, you know, and saying, ‘You’ve got a loose cannon for a salesman. What are you going to do about it?'” Anderson said. “I got complaints from [employees]….”

Lisk said it was the hosts of the program “Two Dorks in the Morning,” that commented about a vacation.

He denied ever claiming to have made the sale.

Administrative Law Judge Bonny Hendricksmeyer said the name of the show would impugn the reputation and credibility of any person who participates in the program.

“To publicly name his employer and make exaggerated statements about his own sales would extend that poor opinion to the employer, as well,” the judge said.