Debbolas
09-05-2005, 09:08 AM
Daily Bulletin, Saturday September 3,2005
I found this in yesterdays paper,it's Associated Press, NOT local :D
San Francisco- A computer engineer who lost his job because he ate two pieces of peperoni pizza left over from a company meeting has been named the winner of an offbeat Internet contest that solicited stories about outrageous firings.
A panel of Silicon Valley judges assembled by Simply Hired, a Mountain View startup that sponsored the contest picked Jim Garrision's strange tale from more than 1,000 entries submitted during the past month. The reward: a free Caribbean cruise that will include passengers famously fired by Donald Trump on his popular television show, "The Apprentice". Garrision, 39, prevailed over some tough competition.
The runners-up included these bizarre stories: a furniture mover who got fired after ha and a co-worker were caught fencing with some adult sex toys that they found in a customer's bedroom; a worker who misunderstood a manager's instructions to send some sensitive data to microfilm and e-mailed it to a "Michael Finn" instead; and a warehouse worker found doing perverse things with the prosthetics made by his employer.
It made for such fascinating reading that one woman posted an account about how she got fired for spending too much company time scrolling through all the postings on Simplyfired.com
(I wonder if there are any ***boat postings)
Garrison, who lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, said he never thought he would be rewarded for getting fired. Then again he never dreamed he would be fired after he at two of the six pieces of pepperoni pizza left over from a company meeting.
:D
I found this in yesterdays paper,it's Associated Press, NOT local :D
San Francisco- A computer engineer who lost his job because he ate two pieces of peperoni pizza left over from a company meeting has been named the winner of an offbeat Internet contest that solicited stories about outrageous firings.
A panel of Silicon Valley judges assembled by Simply Hired, a Mountain View startup that sponsored the contest picked Jim Garrision's strange tale from more than 1,000 entries submitted during the past month. The reward: a free Caribbean cruise that will include passengers famously fired by Donald Trump on his popular television show, "The Apprentice". Garrision, 39, prevailed over some tough competition.
The runners-up included these bizarre stories: a furniture mover who got fired after ha and a co-worker were caught fencing with some adult sex toys that they found in a customer's bedroom; a worker who misunderstood a manager's instructions to send some sensitive data to microfilm and e-mailed it to a "Michael Finn" instead; and a warehouse worker found doing perverse things with the prosthetics made by his employer.
It made for such fascinating reading that one woman posted an account about how she got fired for spending too much company time scrolling through all the postings on Simplyfired.com
(I wonder if there are any ***boat postings)
Garrison, who lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, said he never thought he would be rewarded for getting fired. Then again he never dreamed he would be fired after he at two of the six pieces of pepperoni pizza left over from a company meeting.
:D