‘Layoffs Inside’ Design Rejected
If you’ve been following the recent depressing news coming out of Intel you know that there’s a lot of fine geeks who will be ‘transitioning’ and taking on ‘new creative challenges’ - 10,000 to be exact. Militant Geek wanted to release a special design to celebrate this special occasion. After all, how often does massive, livelihood upheavel happen? How much longer can I continue being facetious?
Unfortunately, vengence of the apparel sort will have to wait. Our store rejected our design of pink slip anger. The reason?
“you have one or more products or designs that are likely copyright protected by a third party.”
*Yawn. I’m simply too tired to read legaleese at the moment. But surely there is some parody-ic justice?
September 14th, 2006 at 12:27 am
[...] To celebrate these excessive abuses of power Militant Geek has created the special, limited time HP logo parody T-Shirt. Why did this design get accepted but the ‘Layoffs Inside‘ T’s get turned down? Can’t really say but grab these while you still can. [...]