Comments on: eXiled Alert! Joe the Copywriter Laid Off For Exposing his Incompetent Bosses

By: ibtrippen

ibtrippen — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:53:06 +0000

Rick, if you wanted people to hire you then you should have stated that in your article. “I will work for your company–actual work! Like the kind that will make you money! I want things to run well because that is just the kind of person I am, but these shitheads won’t let me help them.”

By: wengler

wengler — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:33:02 +0000

It’s the Yellow Pages. It wouldn’t have survived another couple years in the best of times.

By: Joe Blow

Joe Blow — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:02:50 +0000

Hah! I knew he was blowing it. He should have gone out and gotten a real job and just kept sending in timesheets until they eventually got rid of him.

He would be active and have extra cash to spend.

My guess is he wanted to be fired because he was sinking quickly into a state of sodden sticky stupor and was not about to do anything to get out of it unless forced.

By: rick

rick — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:26:45 +0000

1)It’s not a put-on, 2)It’s a horrible essay, that nonetheless carries with it the obvious insight, “we should hire this man!” It was meant to do that, specifically to hurt executives, not to get me hired. That’s where I’m at. I feel so alienated, I simply want to hurt executives, since many years in corporations have convinced me there’s no place for somebody who wants to help the corporation, economically. It’s like an old-school, Saddam Hussein/Libya aristocracy, in half of American corporations, and you’re seeing it in the economic collapse. They’re good at gestapo shit like all dictatorships, nothing else.

By: just saying

just saying — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:43:59 +0000

eXiled Alert! Man fired 24 hours later than he thought he would be!

Sheesh.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:29:32 +0000

How is this “Gestapo-style”? An essay like that would get you fired from just about anywhere if the right people saw it and it was posted on a website with the intention of getting people to see it.

By: Viking

Viking — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:05:03 +0000

The War Nerd does data entry.

By: foo

foo — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:45:07 +0000

can’t stop rolling on the floor and laughing my guts out.

funniest thing i’ve ever read…d00d thought he was being all countercultural and shit, ‘plaining about his retard company on exiled..Now that his retard company found out and fired him, d00d actually wants his retard job back.

dunno, which is more retarded, the d00d or the company.

By: core

core — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:59:11 +0000

Maybe he’s the War Nerd?

By: geo8rge

geo8rge — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:57:34 +0000

“Gestapo-style espionage operation against their employees.”

Actually virtually any large organization has someone that is supposed to query the company name and any products and other company crap every morning and write a report. My guess is that it became obvious who it was from the article.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:25:16 +0000

Perhaps Joe’s incompetent bosses are fans of the Exiled. Somehow I doubt it. Perhaps he did this article from work or at least looked at with IT tracing everything.

I love my employer! I love my job! I WILL drink the koolaid!

By: Snarky

Snarky — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:43:40 +0000

Poor Joe. Rule #1: when you bitch about your company, don’t say their name. Rule #2: don’t brag about it in the office, people will report your ass due to corporate cocksucking.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:50:10 +0000

They should’ve promoted him as a “creative insights” consultant. Instead, they terminated him. Here’s to HR Donnelly becoming a household name for stupid, fantasy-land corporate groupthink. When you’re in a dying industry, you can 1. consolidate (like EarthLink does with dial-up Internet) or 2. sell your assets (e.g., back to the phone companies that collect the info. behind the Yellow Pages), but you can’t ride the unicorn of deceit to profitability.

By: pete

pete — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:47:58 +0000

I enjoy the site but this seems to me like a put on.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:44:37 +0000

Woe is Joe.

Perhaps it’s time for him to revisit Dolan’s Tips for New Paupers?

As for me–also an out-of-work copywriter(!)–I was all set to send in an expose detailing how my emotionally damaged fruitcake of a girlfriend lets me sponge off of her in these cold hard coupon clipping times, but alas, this has made me think otherwise. Instead I will buy her a block of Swiss cheese (the holes symbolize my love for her) with her hard-earned money from the ghetto fabulous grocery store Aldi.

God bless everyone!

By: abb1

abb1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:57:51 +0000

7-8 years ago it was just the same, but all in good fun; fuckedcompany.com and all that. Everybody was happy to lose their jobs and thought it was the funniest thing. Myself included.

So, why is the mood so different now? C’mon, you get laid off, you get unemployment for 6 months or so, enjoy.

By: jesus

jesus — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:12:44 +0000

L O L

Saw this one coming!

Good luck dude, maybe you can break into porn with that …. perfected technique.

By: wengler

wengler — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:24:34 +0000

If he’s anything like Joe the Plumber he is going to be offered that war correspondent job anyday now.