I guess prices aren't the only thing that Wal-Mart rolls back...from my sister back in Ioway

Friday, January 7, 2005
Wal-Mart greeter fired for showing nude self portrait
By the Associated Press

MUSCATINE — A Wal-Mart greeter was sacked for apparently showing too much of his friendly side to customers.

Dean L. Wooten, 65, was fired in September from his job as a greeter at the Muscatine Wal-Mart store, where he worked for seven years, state records show. He 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 told him to stop displaying the picture after customers complained. He was fired five days later after he displayed the photo again, records show. Wooten's application for unemployment compensation was rejected by Administrative Law Judge Susan Brightman, 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 didn't see any harm in the photo, which he said was made by a friend who spliced Wooten's head on to another man's body using a computer. "When I first seen it, I pretty near died laughing," he said.

Sudiegirl's comments?
1. Well, my fellow Iowan has truly proven that stupidity is not just isolated to the stereotypical "Southern" states, although this did occur in Southeast Iowa.
2. I have never been hired by WalMart, and I think I now know the reason why...I don't have Photoshop on my computer at home so I can edit photos of myself by placing the WalMart logo on various suggestive areas of my person.
3. Man, I wonder if he has to have a warning label on HIS toilet brush?

Sudiegirl