Tightwad Employers
During the 60’s I worked at an American firm that dealt with recruitment of manual workers. We would find jobs for all sorts of companies or well off private individuals that contacted our office.

There were a number of prospective employers that were well known by the staff. They would call the office and hire 2 or more staff to participate in security work every few months. We would send the résumés of some of the better trained applicants that were once in the specialist forces or had some combat experience but they would always be ignored for the cheaper candidates that would wear the appropriate uniform and do whatever they are told for a third of the price in wages.

Predictably we would receive a call back from the employer a few weeks later to say that the people they had employed were useless and lost a fistfight to Adam West and Burt Ward.

At that point I would calmly tell the irate employer that they should have hired a professional rather than save a bit of cash by hiring inexperienced morons that will dress as a pirate and yell Yo Ho after every command.

They must have had the worst memory too as they would repeat the exact same stunt every single time they escaped from Arkham. Bloody supervillains.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 14:16, 5 replies)

Arf!
I like the fact that I assumed the Adam West comment was a turn of phrase until the last line.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 14:25, closed)

I'm glad you said that.
I felt a bit silly having assumed the same!
( Moey, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 14:25, closed)

*ahem*
Ditto
( elgordo, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 14:31, closed)

yep
but now its a cracking euphemism i can't wait to employ
(Discreditor wants the dream to come true, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 21:03, closed)

If you like moronic supervillains...
...I can thoroughly recommend the game No-One Lives Forever, and its sequel, No-One Lives Forever 2. A very tongue-in-cheek send-up of 60's spy movies, with moronic henchmen, they're a hoot to play.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 20:02, closed)