November 18, 2008
The Joke That Got the Metro Mechanic Fired
We complained in today's morning roundup that the Examiner left out a crucial piece of information in its story about how a veteran Metro mechanic was fired after he told a dirty joke: the joke itself. We can't know either way whether this firing was an overreaction or an appropriate response unless we know what the joke actually was, after all.
Well, a source just sent us the joke, and since we're a tawdry online media outlet and by no means a "family newspaper," we can freely publish it!
The (reportedly paraphrased) joke that we've heard Metro mechanic Gene Garritt told while he was performing emcee duties at a departmental awards ceremony is after the jump. It's text only, but the text is certainly NSFW.
Photo by afagen
Uncle is drinking at a bar with his nephew.That's definitely dirty, and far worse, not really funny at all. But does it merit a firing? This guy was an engineer with Metro for 16 years, and was well liked enough that they asked him to emcee this agency event in the first place. He should have known better than to tell this joke in front of all his bosses and co-workers, to be sure. But couldn't he just have been reprimanded? Are we all really so sensitive?Nephew says, "I finally got to give my girlfriend oral sex last night. But
it wasn't like you said. Thanks for the tips, but it didn't taste at all
like a peach. It tasted like shit."Uncle says: "Well, you've got to flip her over."
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Boooooo! Get off the stage!
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Should have sent him to sensitivity training, in lieu of firing. Or at least let the crowd pelt him with tomatoes before a big hook appeared and pulled him off stage.
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@cranky I went home this weekend, so I have several bags of frozen tomatoes to donate for the pelting (thanks, Mom!).
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Possible the biggest 'David Brent moment' of all time
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Just when you think there's no longer a use for the sewage trebuchet, this happens.
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Now mechanics are being fired for telling dirty jokes? And I suppose now construction workers can't cat-call at girls walking by?
What the hell is this world coming to. The only reason people are willing to work those crappy jobs is because of the perks, namely, being able to talk dirty on the job.
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Sensitivity training? Really?
It SUCKS that metro fired him over that. Seriously. Society is getting so painfully touchy about stupid stuff. With everything out there that we should be worrying about and focusing on, this just sucks. Hey metro, how about you worry about improving service, etc. The mechanic was probably one of the few good ones too!
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Its not the joke, but the fact that this guy has zero common sense. The idiot should be fired.
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Bad taste but not worth ruining a man's career over, especially in today's suck-ass economy. Sucks for his family, assuming he has one.
Rehire him, make him attend some heinous sensitivity training,and be done with it.
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Yes, it's warranted. It's not like he said it at a bar with some friends -- he was emceeing the department awards ceremony. How much you want to bet this was not his first offense either?
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Damn nasty joke...but to be fired because of it is overkill. Send him to diversity or sensitivity training and tell him to stop watching bad comedians.
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I guess it depends on exactly what he was doing for Metro. I'm not sure I want someone that stupid repairing bus brake systems...
I mean, I'm no prude but unless you're at a bachelor party (and it is 1955) I'm not sure where that joke would be appropriate.
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I was a labor lawyer for over ten years. I've tried over 200 arbitrations for termination for just cause. I assume this guy is represented and his union contract has a just cause provision. I 100% guarantee that he will be reinstated, with back pay (meaning he gets paid for the 6 months he will be sitting at home). That guarantee assumes that he was not on a Last & Final Warning for a long string of other bad behavior. Standing alone, this joke constitutes about .00000000000001% of what you need for just cause. And no, I'm not a union hack, I represent management.
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Is common sense really a requirement for a blue collar job? What next, they can't say "hoss" or chew tobacco?
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I'd like to rewind back to his speech preparation. Was he driving over to the event thinking, "Hmmm, should I lead with the corny one about Metro riders jamming the doors or my classic rim job joke...? Yeah, I'm going to go with the ass licking."
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Hillman: especially in today's suck-ass economy.
Please tell me that choice of wording was on purpose
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Have the Rolling Stones killed.
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Guessing that someone who would tell a joke like that, as the emcee of a work-related event, may have a record with lots of inappropriate work behaviors. An extreme personality who tests the boundaries a lot. Good riddance, flake with bad taste in jokes.
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Q: Why did the Chicken cross the Metro rail?
A: To have orail sex.
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Well ...... it's not like he insulted a Supreme Court Justice, then passed out on the ballroom floor and proceeded to snore through the Vice President's speech!
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People are so sensitive. It's getting to the point where a guy can't yell "Eat f**k pie!" in a church anymore. Maybe!
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Too soon!
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That's not even a good joke, it seems like the punchline to a much longer, better joke I heard years ago about a man who drives down the road, buying increasingly more expensive apples with strange qualities:
The first batch tasted like peanut butter, you turn the apple over and the other side tasted like jelly. Peanut butter and jelly apples.
The second batch tasted like ham, you turn them over, they taste like cheese. Ham and cheese apples.
The third batch were supposed to taste like pu$$y, but when the guy bit into it he said it tasted like $hit. So, the apple salesman says "turn it over."
ta-da!!
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oy vey.
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*tap, tap, tap...* is this thing on??
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Gong.
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As a mechanic, this is one of the men who appear unable to keep that new-fangled invention that carries human beings up an incline, also known as an escalator, working. Nowhere on this planet does a group of engineers have so much trouble with this particular engineering feat.
Good riddance.
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Put him on weekend barf clean-up duty on the new Adams Morgan circulator.
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I wonder how the audience reacted? Did they laugh?
Was there a pie thrown? Was there any Benny Hill music? Did he do an encore? Will he be performing at another club?
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I think that explains a few things, like how one escalator at my station never works because there is an "ultimate dirty joke book" purchased in 1962 wedged down in the gears. A person so stupid enough to think that joke would fly in front of an audience of people over 15 should not be fixing anything as big as a train.
Q: How many metro mechanics does it take to fix an escalator?
A: Dirty rim job.
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"You've got to flip her over" is the new "JUNKPUNCH."
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How is it that every commenter is so stuck up their own a$$ that they can't enjoy the humor in a good rim job joke? Also, how is there such a disconnect between blue and white collar workers? Makes me wish my desk had a tool box.
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Maybe it does...
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that's what she said . . .
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http://www.instantrimshot.com/
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He should be fired for not following that with a dead baby joke to redeem himself.
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Carlos Mencia is taking notes.
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Q: How is working for Metro like oral sex?
A: A slip of the tongue and you're in deep shit.
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@ run for the hills
Did you get that one from the Henny Youngman joke tape? [rim shot]
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Going with the suspend without pay, sensitivity training, whatever - some sort of punishment to make sure he knows that it was wrong and wont do it again, but no need to fire him.
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We've got sexual harrassment training this afternoon at work. Think I should open with the mechanic's joke?
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We should all call him up and show him some support.
I'm sure he needs it. I mean come on folks. He's going to have to repeat that damn joke over and over during his appeal. It will just getting funnier and funnier. Jay Leno will be quoting him.
He'll get his own Comedy Central stand-up gig. Jimmy Kimmel will call. So lets all call him and show some support. Go team...yay!
202-555-SHOT
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Q: How did the engineer get out of sensitivity training?
A: JUNKPUNCH
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The other sad part is that some of the audience didn't get the punchline and had to ask their neighbors about it. It was their first venture beyond the missionary position.
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the Aristocrats!!
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Today at my work, my boss asked me if my inability to eat dairy kept me away from Chinese restaurants because I can't have "the Cream of Some Young Guy." Which wasn't funny when I was 12 and saw "Wayne's World" either.
Good thing I don't work at Metro.
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SystemError: You've either got a kewl boss or a creepy boss? Which is it?
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i vote for creepy as shit.
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@deep
Does it matter if SystemError is male or female?
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I'm male. Equal parts corny and creepy. Corny as in, forward you this joke of the day kind of corny.
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Hillrat
It don't matter. Nope. It don't matter at'tall.
A creeps, a creep, and sometimes a banana is just a banana.
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Metro mechanic Gene Garritt is now available for
kiddie parties and other social events. Get him while he's HOT!
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OK..I thought it was funny, but I'm a ghey and just the thought of chowing down on lady parts is funny to me.
It's too bad this did not happen a month ago. McCain could have toted "Gene the Perv Mechanic Without a Self-Sensoring Mechanism" out on the campaign trail.
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bah, people are pussies these days. let him keep the job. just tell him to play nice.
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He should not be fired.
He should not have to go to diversity training. What sort of diversity training would that be?
His boss should have the right to be stern and crap on him.
He should feel badly.
That's it.
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haha fired for a dumb ass joke
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@ Jamie
Actually, the blue collar workers I grew up with have way more common sense the the average know-it-all white collar worker in DC. And they're smart enough to know the difference between being educated and being intelligent.
Besides, being a certified mechanic for a bus and train company is a damn good job with a union contract, good wages and benefits. Not sure how that qualifies as crappy.