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PostPosted: September 5th, 2005, 8:27 pm 
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Pizza firing wins online contest

Monday, September 5, 2005; Posted: 11:11 a.m. EDT (15:11 GMT)

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A computer engineer who lost his job because he ate two pieces of pepperoni pizza has been named the winner of an offbeat Internet contest that solicited stories about outrageous firings.

A panel of Silicon Valley judges picked Jim Garrison's strange tale from more than 1,000 entries submitted during the past month. The reward: a free Caribbean cruise.

Garrison, 39, prevailed over some tough competition.

The runners-up included a furniture mover who got fired after he and a co-worker were caught fencing with some adult sex toys found in a customer's bedroom; a worker who misunderstood a manager's instructions to send some sensitive data to microfilm and e-mailed it to a "Michael Finn" instead; and a warehouse worker found doing perverse things with the prosthetics made by his employer.

Garrison, who lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, said he never thought he would be rewarded for getting fired. Then again, he never dreamed he would be fired after he ate two of the six pieces of pepperoni pizza left over from a company meeting.

What he didn't know is that several other employees had already worked out a plan to take the leftover pizza home with them.

When they discovered one-third of the leftover pizza pie had been eaten, the employees reported Garrison to management, ultimately leading to his firing last November -- a month after he ate the food.


Well, it's true: that's the stupidest firing I've ever heard of.

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PostPosted: September 6th, 2005, 11:41 am 
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Did he....pay for it?

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PostPosted: September 6th, 2005, 3:11 pm 
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Probably not, but if he did that's f*cked up.


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a worker who misunderstood a manager's instructions to send some sensitive data to microfilm and e-mailed it to a "Michael Finn" instead;


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PostPosted: September 7th, 2005, 9:03 pm 
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LOL! :lol

What are the odds he'd know a Michael Finn? :p

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PostPosted: September 7th, 2005, 9:22 pm 
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Who the hell is he?

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geez, its just pizza, who of thunk it!?
the other worker should have put their names on it or something. otherwise its fair game.
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Wow. I'm shocked.

When you gotta eat you gotta eat, right?

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They usually don't give all the information when trying to make something funny like this. I'm willing to wager that he was a generally disliked employee, if not that he'd already had problems or caused problems shortly thereafter, people don't cause a raucus over pizza if it's among friends. The Michael Finn's pretty good though, and movers playing with sex toys sounds so common.


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