Fired Over a Cheeseburger Photo
In last night’s dream the manager for the Town of Saint George Maine asked me to get him a photo of a cheeseburger. I said I would. I started looking at royalty free stock images of burgers, but citizens came in and needed help, so I helped them first, thinking the photo of a cheeseburger could wait. He came back and said “Where’s my cheeseburger photo?” I said “I haven’t found a good one yet, and I had to wait on people, so I’m still looking.” He looked disgusted, took out his phone, and said to the phone “Get me a picture of a cheeseburger.” Immediately his phone started making all kinds of noises as cheeseburger alerts started going off. He said “If my staff of a phone can find me a cheeseburger photo this fast, how come you can’t?” And I said “Just because you found photos on the web doesn’t mean you can just use them. I was looking for a royalty free photo you could commercially use.” And he said “I don’t need it for anything professional, I just want to post it in a note.” And as I started to explain that I didn’t know that, and thought he wanted to use it on the web or in town materials, he leaned over to assistant manager Tara Elwell and started discussing my termination. Then I woke up.