By: E&P Staff A Fort Madison, Iowa, man who posted a "Dilbert" comic on an office bulletin board lost his job for implying his bosses were "drunken lemurs," The Des Moines Register reported today.
In the comic, Dilbert asks his garbageman, "Why does it seem as if most of the decisions in my workplace are made by drunken lemurs?"
Clark Kauffman's Register story said David Steward put up the strip in October after learning that the casino he was working for would be laying off many employees. Subsequently, casino managers reviewed surveillance tapes and determined that Steward was responsible for the act.
At a recent state hearing dealing with Steward's unemployment-benefits claim, the casino's human resources director said upper management found the comic "very offensive" and fired Steward as a result. Steward responded that he posted the strip to "cheer some people up." The judge sided with Steward.
The Register story was mentioned today on Alan Gardner's
Daily Cartoonist blog .
Responding to Gardner's post, "Retail" cartoonist Norm Feuti said some store managers get upset when employees post his King Features Syndicate comic in breakrooms and stockrooms.
"Sounds like these managers see a little too much of their own asinine behavior on the comics page," Feuti wrote. "As far as I'm concerned, firing or threatening to fire an employee for hanging up a comic strip is nothing but an admission of guilt."
Scott Adams' "Dilbert" strip runs in more than 2,000 newspapers via United Media.
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