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Fired for posting a Dilbert strip?

Posted by Fired Fred on December 19, 2007 6:59 PM
Yeah, it happened. I thought when I saw this it was just a case of someone's boss not finding Dilbert funny. Because Dilbert's not really that funny, in a Garfield/Marmaduke not-funny kind of way.

Turns out the strip David Steward put up may have hit a little too close to home for upper management types scheming to fire a bunch of people ahead of the closing of the Catfish Bend Casino in Iowa...
The human resources director for the Catfish Bend Casino testified at a hearing that management found the cartoon "very offensive." He said the cartoon accused the decision-makers of being drunken lemurs, and that management considers it misconduct.
The judge, amazingly enough, didn't agree with the casino. Dilbert David gets the unemployment benefits he sought. His old bosses get to continue acting like drunken lemurs. I'm going to think of this every time I'm channel surfing and see Zoboomafoo on PBS.
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