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Category: Ann Arbor
Posted on: February 21, 2007 8:38 AM, by Shelley Batts
Ann Arbor's heartache plastered on a shirt: the closing of the Pfizer lab/factory in my home town has "liberated" several thousand people of their jobs. One of these is my friend Kyle "Coney Dog" Kuzzpit who sent me this hilarious t-shirt.
A lucky, lucky few will be transferred to Pfizer's main headquarters in Groton, CT. The majority are gonna be applying for unemployment.......which has led to this even slightly more hilarious t-shirt.
(Hat tip, Kyle.)
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Comments
A few of them could head to Groton, NY.
Posted by: Mustafa Mond, FCD | February 21, 2007 10:26 AM
A favorite local joke in Groton used to be:
Why do so many local boys join the submarine service (based in Groton)?
To escape the smell of the Pfizer plant. (They had humongous fermenters to produce the precursors to semi-synthetic antibiotics.)
Posted by: chezjake | February 21, 2007 1:06 PM
I earned mine in '03, with the Pharmacia "merger". The hacked logo was invented at that time.
Posted by: Tom B | October 19, 2007 9:19 AM
Sometimes I feel like corporate spoofs are questionable in terms of their creativity and legality (and so does cafepress), but "Pfired" actually makes a lot of sense in this case.
Posted by: Alex | February 13, 2008 2:19 AM