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Apple Fires Employee For Having a Sense of Humor
submitted by *** 2 days 5 hours ago
Apple once again shows how it "thinks different" by firing one of its customer service representatives for doing just that! An employee was fired by his humorless VP just for doing a hilarious stand-up routine at an Apple-sponsored talent show, where he was by far the best performer!
18 Comments
by *** 2 days 5 hours ago
First!
by *** 2 days 4 hours ago
Typical of a company that makes money selling "free expression" but stifles its own workforce for doing the same. Digg.
by *** 2 days 4 hours ago
omg that is SO OLD!!! no digg
by *** 2 days 3 hours ago
Video up at Google Video now, at least until apples sensors take it down!
by *** 2 days ago
Nice 2 know that while im waiting for hours on tech support for my overpriced pos imac their making fun of me and writing theyre so called "comedy." This loser got what he deserved.
by *** 2 days ago
u should of bought a pc then dumb-a**
by *** 1 day 20 hours ago
The video and reports of it fail to tell the whole story. He makes it sound like he was fired just for that talent performance, but this blog tells how he was fired for negative comments about the company, customers, and co-workers on his own livejournal.
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Image from a Swatch Beat Internet Time website.
by *** 1 day 19 hours ago
this is so old id already seen it before my grandmamma had her last period. no digg.
by *** 1 day 19 hours ago
roflcopter!
by *** 1 day 19 hours ago
Link to the dude's livejournal has been password-protected now. Guess he didn't want us to know the real story.
by *** 1 day 15 hours ago
Another misleading story getting passed around. He was only a temp employee, could get fired at any time for no reason anyway, and seemed more interested in promoting himself and his "slam poetry" gig than building a career at Apple. Much ado about nothing.
by *** 1 day 12 hours ago
Slam poetry is GAY.
by *** 40 minutes ago
funny stuff. digg.
by *** 35 minutes ago
lol when he said her brown eyes were like pudding he really meant s***
by *** 20 minutes ago
canada and apple sux.
(The actual digg entry is here from way back in September 2005 (OMG SO OLD!) but we like our version better. Except for the "Slam poetry is GAY" comment, which is from actual digg user jet3004 and is too good to pass up.)