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."