Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays...

i'm not even supposed to be here today!

They called him in to work just so they could fire him?

If I were him, I'd still bill them for at least half a day for that one. Then mention the name of the company or organization when being interviewed for the news about the house fire ;)

How is this ironic? It's quite sad, but not ironic.

"How you gonna get fired on your day off?"

/I'm not surprised that Office Space gets more references than Friday
//but I am disappointed

cerote: How is this ironic? It's quite sad, but not ironic.

It sorta is...he was a social worker who, according to tfa, helped people cope with such traumas as "being fired or house fires," etc. Not a classic definition, but close enough for rock and roll
Fark.

... and later that day discovered his wife having sex with Vern Troyer at a local Carl Jr.'s.

cerote: How is this ironic? It's quite sad, but not ironic.

He got fired, and then his house got fired. Hence the clever headline: maybe if he was laid off, then he would have gotten laid instead.

/+1 to subby

hillbillypharmacist: "How you gonna get fired on your day off?"

/I'm not surprised that Office Space gets more references than Friday
//but I am disappointed

bahhhhhh! came to post that

CrossEyed: cerote: How is this ironic? It's quite sad, but not ironic.

He got fired, and then his house got fired. Hence the clever headline: maybe if he was laid off, then he would have gotten laid instead.

/+1 to subby

+1 for the explanation.

It's ironic, or not, who cares.

That's a great headline.

If only it was somebody's wedding day nearby.....could have saved the house.

I asked the Irony Cops and they said this situation is indeed ironic. And shiatty.

Put a gold star on your computer, subby.

rancidPlasma: I asked the Irony Cops and they said this situation is indeed ironic. And shiatty.

No. Not Ironic.

It would have been ironic if he had been called in for fire prevention training.

CrossEyed: cerote: How is this ironic? It's quite sad, but not ironic.

He got fired, and then his house got fired. Hence the clever headline: maybe if he was laid off, then he would have gotten laid instead.

/+1 to subby

Garcon, moar coffee.

letrole: It would have been ironic if he had been called in for fire prevention training.

Or if they were going to fire him but he spontaneously combusted.

hmmph not only is this not ironic, but is probably going to cause my headline (which IS ironic) to get shot down...thanks for nuthin submittard

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4351682#new (new window)


/learn the language
//sheesh
///wait...is that ironic? I think it is... :)

yogaFLAME: Or if they were going to fire him but he spontaneously combusted.

Or if his wife had cut her hair to buy him a new zippo.

/ not obscure
// neither is the candy bar

Butterfingers approves. Geez, I love work.

I see what you did there =)

hope the kids were not too freaked out. As a child my mother experienced an apartment fire that left them homeless, possession-free and broke. That trauma follows her still.

My favorite lay off story. Yes. There is more than one.

I go in to work early. Second shift. I worked for Union Pacific Railroad in dowtown St. Louis. I'm waiting in the break room with a railroad cop. Railroad cops usually have some great stories. He's telling me about the time he's guarding an intermodal yard in LA. Some kids break in to a container and find it's full of VCRs. Suddenly, there's a sea of humanity converging on this container. The kids are throwing VCRs in to the crowd.

Best the cops can do now is try and get some of the VCRs back. This cop says he runs around a corner and there's a little old lady with a walker. Balanced on the walker is a VCR.

He must have seen my name tag for the first time because he stops the story and excuses himself. About 5 minutes late, the shift meeting starts. It goes like normal but then the boss says "Harry wait here." Everyone else goes in. In comes the boss' boss and the cop. I get walked out. I knew the place was moving to Omaha but I figured we had another year at least.

The cop walks me down to the street and out to the curb. I turn to him and ask: "So did you arrest that lady or just take the VCR back?" He looked at me, said nothing and walked back in.

Dang.

Let Wikipedia decide.

Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does and what one means or what is generally understood. Irony is a mode of expression that calls attention to the character's knowledge and that of the audience.

There is some argument about what qualifies as ironic, but all senses of irony revolve around the perceived notion of an incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or between an understanding or expectation of a reality and what actually happens. "when the literal truth is in direct discordance, to the perceived truth".



Since there is a discordance between a reality and what actually happened, I deem it ironic.

Madbassist1: hmmph not only is this not ironic, but is probably going to cause my headline (which IS ironic) to get shot down...thanks for nuthin submittard

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4351682#new (new window)


/learn the language
//sheesh
///wait...is that ironic? I think it is... :)

Bit bitter, are we?

jayday Quote 2009-04-26 08:57:34 AM
We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday.....

Fire them after the Christmas party. (Happened to a few people at a place I used to work for). A man was fired the monday after the Christmas party. Five years later, his boss was fired the same way.

Owens's Corning Fiberglass would do their anual downsizing at Christmas time.

CrossEyed: cerote: How is this ironic? It's quite sad, but not ironic.

He got fired, and then his house got fired. Hence the clever headline: maybe if he was laid off, then he would have gotten laid instead.

/+1 to subby

A little sad that we have to explain that one around here.

/another +1 for best read-it-twice-to-laugh-out-loud headline I've seen in a while
//wishes I actually had +1's to give

CrossEyed: cerote: How is this ironic? It's quite sad, but not ironic.

He got fired, and then his house got fired. Hence the clever headline: maybe if he was laid off, then he would have gotten laid instead.

/+1 to subby

I don't get it. Perhaps a diagram would help?

Mongo cut wood: jayday Quote 2009-04-26 08:57:34 AM
We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday.....

Owens's Corning Fiberglass would do their anual downsizing at Christmas time.

One of my friend's got laid off last year the day of the Christmas party along with 12% of his company. For some reason management can't figure out why morale is so low and any one who can get another job is leaving. They have lost almost another 10% of their workforce. It would probably be more if the job market in Atlanta was better.

Subby needs a coincidence tag. The headline uses irony; the story is not ironic.

/badge No. 4403

ajgeek: Madbassist1: hmmph not only is this not ironic, but is probably going to cause my headline (which IS ironic) to get shot down...thanks for nuthin submittard

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4351682#new (new window)


/learn the language
//sheesh
///wait...is that ironic? I think it is... :)

Bit bitter, are we?

perhaps you missed the smiley at the end...not surprising.

Madbassist1: hmmph not only is this not ironic, but is probably going to cause my headline (which IS ironic) to get shot down...thanks for nuthin submittard

It didn't get shot down because this went green. I read your headline and it sucked donkey balls.

Palmer Eldritch: That's a great headline.

Not ironic at all. Just a play on words. Unless you think telling the "there once was a man from Nantucket"joke is ironic, too.

Please dont misuse the 'ironic tag'. Every time you do, you make baby Jesus cry.

cute headline

Subby, you made me laugh at something naughty before church.
I am ashamed.

Goodfella: Palmer Eldritch: That's a great headline.

Not ironic at all. Just a play on words. Unless you think telling the "there once was a man from Nantucket"joke is ironic, too.

Please dont misuse the 'ironic tag'. Every time you do, you make baby Jesus cry.

RTFA. The guy councils people who go through tragedies like loosing thier job or having their house burned down.

Somewhere in Canada, Alanis Morissette is crying

// But ironically, a royalty check for the stupid song is heading her way

OregonVet: Madbassist1: hmmph not only is this not ironic, but is probably going to cause my headline (which IS ironic) to get shot down...thanks for nuthin submittard

It didn't get shot down because this went green. I read your headline and it sucked donkey balls.

After watching your mom for so many years, you would know...

I do feel it is both ironic and sad. The fact that the guy chooses to laugh about it instead of "Firing" on his former employer, makes him cool. "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"!

At the bottom of the article, the next story is "Hard times for Britan's richest".

I just can't see reading that after this.

awesome headline smitty.

Gunderson
Love it.

Welcome to the Machine

OMG! That is one of the funniest things I've ever seen! LOLing rolling on the floor!

CrossEyed: cerote: How is this ironic? It's quite sad, but not ironic.

He got fired, and then his house got fired. Hence the clever headline: maybe if he was laid off, then he would have gotten laid instead.

/+1 to subby

I must need coffee, I didn't get the headline until I read this post.

/ashamed.