Casino Management: Dilbert Cartoon Not Funny

He Who Laughs Last: A man who posted a Dilbert comic strip at work, and who subsequently was fired for misconduct as a result, is entitled to receive unemployment benefits. That was the ruling of an Iowa judge in the case of David Steward, who reportedly posted the comic strip as a way to “cheer some people up” after employees at Catfish Bend Casino, including Steward, learned the casino would be closing. According to Iowa TV station KFVS, the casino’s human resources director testified at a hearing that casino management was offended by the cartoon because it accused them of “being drunken lemurs.” A judge disagreed, saying Steward’s action did not represent intentional misbehavior but rather a “good-faith error in judgment.”