Wal-Mart Worker Fired Over Semi-Naked Photo

Associated Press ^ | January 7, 2005 | AP

[Roberts]

Wooten said he did not see the harm in the photo, which he said was made by a friend who spliced a picture of Wooten's head onto a shot of another man's body.

"When I first seen it, I pretty near died laughing," he said.

Yes, people can be that stupid.

[Mears]

The guy's an idiot!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

He'd be good for business. The body had a sack over it. People should lighten up. Knees, bare chest, so what? I wish I'd seen that joke. My kind of greeter.

[Dont Mention the War]

[Ginifer]

Other people laughed too, when the bag fell off. Some people!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

What's really sad is that a guy has to try this hard in order to get fired from Wal-Mart. Incompetence won't do it.

[rmgatto]

The new frontrunner for DNC chairman has arrived...

[annyokie]

Sheesh! Whatta maroon.

[VastRWCon]

Isn't that tommy boy's new job?

[ladiesview61]

hahaha that's funny as hell!

[Mears]

Son of a gun----why didn't I think of that!

[Aquinasfan]

Wooten's application for unemployment compensation was rejected by an administrative law judge, who said "a reasonable person would know the act of showing a naked body wearing a Wal-Mart sack would not be good for the employer's business."

Put this guy on the Supreme Court.

[tuckrdout]

Don't people have sense of humor anymore?! Geez, is he 38 or 88? It makes a big difference.

[Prime Choice]

How come it's always the old guys handing out semi-naked pictures and never the pretty check-out girls? Huh? I feel disenfranchised here. Where's Jesse Jackson? I wanna sue somebody! RAR!

(o:   This post is smiley captioned for the humor-impaired.   :o)

[BykrBayb]

That's just sooooo wrong, on so many levels.

[azhenfud]

Geesh - the guy was hired as a WalMart smiler. What's their prollem?

[Semper Vigilantis]

This joke came out years ago when the Clintons were stripping the military to pay for free needle programs. The one I got had a shpeel about how much USAF retirements were being effected. I thought it was cute but I can see how it would be inappropriate for the work place - especially if that workplace was Walmart!

[kingu]

Dean L. Wooten, 65, was accused of greeting customers with a computer-generated photo of himself in which he appeared to be naked — except for a carefully placed Wal-Mart bag — and of telling customers that Wal-Mart was cutting costs and the sack was the company's new uniform.

What, he made printouts to show customers as they walked through the door? He is an idiot!

[tuckrdout]

Oh, sorry, I see he was 65....it's a joke people!

[Roberts]

Apparently, he thought he was being funny. After all, when he "first seen it", he thought it was funny as hell.