Hey, Did You Hear About the Guy Who Got Fired For Posting a Dilbert Comic?
For all those days you hate your job…at least you don’t work where this poor guy did. Methinks they needed to fire the manager, and not the employee.
Great segue into today’s Dictionary of Corporate BS word o’ the day, though…!
noncompete clause:
The part of a contract that prevents disemployed (in most cases) high-level execs from working for the competition for a stipulated length of time; its message can be summed up as “We don’t find you useful anymore, but don’t go trying to make yourself feel better by finding someone at our competition who does. Do us a favor and be professionally paralyzed/feel bad about yourself for a few months. Thanks!”
Allen
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4 Responses to “Hey, Did You Hear About the Guy Who Got Fired For Posting a Dilbert Comic?”
By daysies on Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
hubby told me yesterday that someone at his workplace got fired for sending a diagram of a drill… which was in response to an e-mail the CIO sent of “you know the drill…” yeah, it was basically a big EFF YOU to the company.
By Stacy on Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
Our debate topic in class this week was the use of video surveillance data in performance appraisals, so I posted this link and the story for my class, too.
You would not believe the number of people who commented and said they would have fired the guy, too. The first thing I thought was that the only people who don’t find that funny…are managers who really do act like drunken lemurs. By association, most of my classmates must manage like drunken lemurs, right?
I’ve found the folks who get the most pissed off at Dilbert comics are the ones who have the most reason to get pissed off - because they’re actually like that!
Note to self: Don’t ever become “that manager.”
By daysies on Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
i’m glad my manager isn’t like that… he’d be the one sending out those types of comics!
By Manic Witch on Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
Those people need thicker skins. And hats off to Adams for picking up the ball and running with it. That company probably garnered more bad publicity that this whole thing was worth.