From: Gary Harland <foggy@gilligan.netisle.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 08:43:47 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Nervous Nellies at the PO
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Came across this by chance...having never heard of this 'disgruntled'
web site, I'm curious as to how the PO managed to learn about the
offending story...if they fired him because of an explicity fictional
article expressing a fantasy shared by vast hordes of Americans then
it kind of looks like the Post Office 'went postal' on one of their
employees.

>   DISGRUNTLED POSTAL WORKER
>   
>   A South Bay postal worker has been fired for a fictional article he
>   got published on the Internet, in which he depicted a worker who was
>   so fed up with conditions in his San Jose office that he pulled out a
>   gun and shot his dictatorial and much despised supervisor. The article
>   appeared in December in the on-line publication Disgruntled, which
>   bills itself as the business magazine for people who work for a
>   living.
>   
>   The story, "Scrooged Again," appeared to have struck a nerve with his
>   employer, who informed him that he would be removed from his job at
>   the postal service effective Jan. 27 because of "unacceptable and
>   disrespectful conduct."
>   
>   The Web page site for Disgruntled is: http://www.disgruntled.com
>   

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