Man fired over Dilbert cartoon

[pokerfan]

The assholes even challenged his claim for unemployment benefits.

Anyway, the firing happened last December, but Scott Adams is now telling the story in his strip.

'Dilbert' retells story of Iowan fired over comic

You can read the strips beginning here.

[Debi]

1. Yeah, makes me love living in Iowa

x(

[x-g.o.p.er]

2. The comic strips are hysterical,

but it's ridiculous a guy got fired over it.

[DarkTirade]

3. I think that headline should be something along the lines of...

'Man fired by bosses who have neither a sense of humor nor irony.'

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Agreed

[ThomCat]

10. And they shall now and forever be known as pointy haired bosses.

x(

[DarkTirade]

11. And deservedly so.

:)

[radfringe]

5. ZIIIINNNNGGGG... ouchie...

:rofl:

I had a boss that was "comma" crazy in his "editing". Granted I'm not a punctuation maniac, but it's often more appropriate to use a period rather than a comma to avoid a run-on sentence.

he often would "red ink" in a comma, and then write the word "coma" with an arrow pointing to the COMMA

this was not his idea of being funny, he really did spell it that way.

He worked out of a different facility, so when I finished the edits, added all the comas, I sent it back with this Dilbert cartoon

[pokerfan]

13. I am reminded of this story

I think it may have been in one of the Dilbert newsletters.

As director of communications, I was asked to prepare a memo reviewing our company's training programs and materials. In the body of the memo in one of the sentences I mentioned the "pedagogical approach" used by one of the training manuals.

The day after I routed the memo to the executive committee, I was called into the HR director's office, and told that the executive vice president wanted me out of the building by lunch. When I asked why, I was told that she wouldn't stand for perverts (pedophiles?) working in her company. Finally, he showed me her copy of the memo, with her demand that I be fired and the word "pedagogical" circled in red. The HR manager was fairly reasonable, and once he looked the word up in his dictionary and made a copy of the definition to send back to her, he told me not to worry. He would take care of it.

Two days later, a memo to the entire staff came out directing us that no words which could not be found in the local Sunday newspaper could be used in company memos. A month later, I resigned. In accordance with company policy, I created my resignation memo by pasting words together from the Sunday paper. (Taco Bell Corporation)

[skygazer]

6. "Man fired by bunch of drunken lemurs"

Of course, this gives drunken lemurs a bad name. If some poor slob hadn't lost his job over it, this would be hysterical.

[Xipe Totec]

14. Fired from Catfish Bend Over Casino n/t

[Haole Girl]

7. After reading the article, I have one question:

How could "a former security supervisor" not know he'd be caught on a security camera?

[skygazer]

8. Caught doing what?

Hanging up a cartoon? Would you expect to be fired over something so stupid?

[Haole Girl]

9. In my job?

Yes.

[DarkTirade]

12. Then your job officially sucks.

[DMSteward]

17. Cameras

I knew cameras were everywhere and I was being observed at all
times. I did not believe for one second that putting a Dilbert
comic on a bulletin board, which I had done on 2 occasions
previously, would be such a big deal. The PHB took the comic
out of context by putting the focus on the first panel. The
following two panels were my point, in this particular
instance. I felt like the talented person fixing the problems
created by the people who had time.

[grannylib]

15. That kinda scared me; I had that strip up in my cube (not on a

bulleting board in a common area) when I was reading the news about this guy getting fired over it *lol*

It's corporate whore 'Murka...it's the same everywhere.

I love Dilbert.

[mokawanis]

16. This is why

people form unions and file grievances. If my bosses did something like that I would definitely make them regret it.