Halliburton Employee's Pay Docked For Weeks Spent As Hostage

Bowmaster

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Halliburton Employee's Pay Docked For Weeks Spent As Hostage
BAGHDAD?Spokesmen for Halliburton International announced Monday that employee Thomas Hamill will not be paid for the three weeks he failed to fulfill his truck-driving duties while being held at gunpoint by Iraqi captors. "While we share your joy in regaining your freedom, we are forced to withhold your wages for the period of April 9 to May 2," read the official corporate reprimand, which reached Hamill in Germany as doctors treated his bullet wound. "A disciplinary slip noting your failure to report to work has been added to your employee file." Halliburton has not yet disclosed the amount Hamill is being charged for structural damage to the company truck he was shot in.



From The Onion. It's only funny because it COULD be true...
 

kage69

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lol, well - we did have combat injured troops having to pay for their own food while in the hospital not too long ago.
 

TravisT

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I was about to get pissed for the poor guy prior to reading it was from The Onion. ;)
 

Genx87

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Ahh lol i thought it was real until I noted the end of your thread you said it was from the Onion lol.
 

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Originally posted by: Genx87
Ahh lol i thought it was real until I noted the end of your thread you said it was from the Onion lol.
Damn liberal Onion. I just came back from their Bush hating, anti-American site, and, I swear, I think several of their stories are just made up.