Paid too much

The L.A. Daily News reports:

At $15 an hour, Richard O'Neal was one of the better-paid salesmen at the Circuit City in Woodland Hills. His career there ended about 8:15 a.m. Wednesday in a mandatory meeting for workers being laid off.

Their transgression: They cost too much money.

You never hear that phrase in government work.That's why there's a waiting list to be all sorts of government workers.