Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers…

Last Updated on: 29th September 2013, 02:02 pm

You can’t make up stuff like this. And check out the quote at the end. Not so much for what he says, but for the way he says it.

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) – A Wal-Mart greeter was sacked for apparently showing too much of his friendly side to customers.

Dean Wooten, 65, was accused of greeting customers with a computer-generated photo of himself in which he appeared to be naked – except for a carefully placed Wal-Mart bag – and of telling customers that Wal-Mart was cutting costs and the sack was the company’s new uniform.

A supervisor at the Muscatine store where Wooten had worked for seven years told him to knock it off after customers complained. He was fired five days later, in September, after he displayed the photo again.

Wooten’s application for unemployment compensation was rejected by an administrative law judge who said “a reasonable person would know the act of showing a naked body wearing a Wal-Mart sack would not be good for the employer’s business.”

Wooten said he did not see the harm in the photo, which he said was made by a friend who spliced a picture of Wooten’s head on to a shot of another man’s body.

“When I first seen it, I pretty near died laughing,” he said.

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.