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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

I'm expecting my pink slip any day now.

I must have missed the memo. It has apparently become a fire-able offense to post a "Dilbert" cartoon in your workplace. Time to find something else to decorate my computer monitor. A man was recently fired from Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington, IA for posting this "Dilbert" cartoon on an office bulletin board, after the managers informed the employees that the casino was closing and layoffs were impending:

You can read the complete story here.

I have little sympathy for the management in this situation. One, they were clearly humorless and thin-skinned. Two, they were about to lay everybody off anyway, so what's the point of creating the opportunity for a legal dispute over a termination? Three, it was a casino. And these managers were apparently incapable of keeping a casino in business? They really must be drunken lemurs! I think this guy was fired for telling the truth!

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