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Nov 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…

 
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