Personal Injury Law

What do drunken lemurs and a Dilbert cartoon have in common with a rotten catfish?

By Steve Lombardi

Perhaps employees need the right to sue employers when the bosses leave common sense out of decision making and then waste tax payer resources in an attempt to punish employees exhibiting a sense of humor. Consider the following: David Steward worked on a floating gambling barge, I mean casino. His employer was the Catfish Bend Casino that ran a boat out of Fort Madison, Iowa. Somewhere along the way he became misguided and figured his bosses had a sense of humor. They don't. After employee moral improved the bosses became suspicious about the cause. They watched surveillance tapes and discovered the problem. It seems that Steward had thumb tacked a Dilbert cartoon to an employee bulletin board comparing bosses to drunken lemurs. Now granted most of us have never seen a lemur, let alone a drunken lemur. And most of us might need to have our moods elevated when told of pending lay-offs. But no, not these bosses. No they saw it as a personal insult that any employee might use a cartoon at their expense to lighten the mood of the working stiffs down on the floor. In fact they were so insulted they resisted his efforts to get unemployment benefits while he looked for a job.

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).