Dilbert Must Be Stopped!
December 26th, 2007 by Cali & Jody
Here’s some holiday cheer for you: a casino worker who was fired for posting a Dilbert comic strip that likened managers to a bunch of “drunken lemurs.” The best (as in worst) part: they challenged his unemployment insurance.
Fortunately, the state ruled in the worker’s favor in terms of the insurance, although in our opinion the right thing would have been for the worker to be offered his job back.
Work is not the military. It’s absurd that an at-will employee could be fired for “insubordination” as if they were a conscript in the Army.
What is most galling to us about this story is that it represents a problem we find all over corporate America: respect flows in one direction. According to the story upper management found the cartoon “very offensive” but then later, the casino worker’s boss told him he wasn’t being a “team player.”
So it’s not okay to joke about managers in general, but it is okay for the boss to dress you down with vague criticisms about your lack of school spirit?
Happy Holidays!
