The beatings are done to provide better customer service !
(/sarcasm)

After all is said and done, it's kind of ironic that this is the way we treat people from whom we want something. Businesses abusing customers and employees, customers and employees abusing each other...

@behemeth: Seconded.

I kinda want that shirt now. What store was this?

@behemeth: @Nigma: What do you have against Depeche Mode?

In Portland, OR they have a pirate themed store that this is available at.

@thisisatrashcan: Have you read the etymology section (hint: 3rd paragraph, 2nd sentence)?

(On second thought: I suppose you may have already. But, if so, why the need to hassle Apoch?)

Had a good laugh!

That was here in Saint John NB Canada. And yes, my husband bought it for me ;) Thanks for posting Chris!

Seriously?

There are people who haven't seen this shirt (or a variation on it) a thousand times by now, in one of the gazillion stores you can find it in, especially in tourist and/or college towns?

There are people who would see this shirt for the first time and refer to it as "the greatest tee shirt"?

Okay, really: what are these people doing with their lives that leaves them that out-of-touch? I get that it's mildly amusing that the shirt was obscuring the "now hiring" sign, but come on. I had a button with this slogan on it in the 1980s, for crying out loud.

@ClankBoomSteam: What are you doing with your life that you have time to track this shirt everywhere it appears? I know I've seen the slogan before, but I can't say I've ever seen a t-shirt with it, so it's not hard to believe other people haven't, either. Some people don't pay much attention to t-shirt stands. *shrug*

@ClankBoomSteam: sorry, SJ is a little backwoods, we don't have all that new fangled stuff the rest of y'all get to enjoy :-D

KMFDM needs to bring back Tim Skold, they need a better guitarist...

...and I need to get one of those shirts and wear it next time I get called in to work on a Saturday.

KMFDM SUCKS!

Funny, isn't it, that we think this joke is so hilarious when we think of applying it in the workplace, but we think it's so dead serious when we apply it to punishing children in order to attempt to force them to be virtuous and cheerful.

And if you disagree, especially if you hit your children, don't replying with "I was spanked and I turned out OK." We know exactly how you turned out. You turned out to be someone who passionately and unthinkingly defends the privilege of adults to hit children.

Haha, i didn't know anyone but me listened to KMFDM

A similar sign hangs at my auto shop -

"The beatings will stop when the morale picks up around here!"

@ClankBoomSteam: Oh, SNAP.

@darksunfox: I personally think they should get lucia out of the band. i don't like her that much

@ClankBoomSteam You took the words out of my fingers.

@speedwell: Actually, pain is a powerful teacher. A cat will only sit on a hot stove once. Of course, it will never sit on a cold one, either.

This reminds me of Flash Gordon, when Ming had a banner flying behind his wedding party reading "All guests will make merry... Under pain of death".

Re: KMFDM
If I wanted to have babies, I would want to have Käpt'n K's babies.

Just saying.

@SacraBos: So how well does pain help you learn? Do you allow you boss to hit you every time you make a mistake on the job? Do you ask your spouse to hit you if you don't pick up after yourself at home? Can the policeman hit you for being disprespectful?

Maybe I should work it into my corporate training classes.

@speedwell: Oops, I mistyped some words. Who's the one in charge of educational hitting around here?

@Silversmok3: Does that work for Comcast/Sprint?

@speedwell: well, I don't beat my kids, and I was beaten as a kid, but I still think that the sign and the shirt together are amusing.

I had the RenFair version of the shirt, "The floggings will continue until moral improves". My boss at Sun where I was subcontracting at the time didn't think it was appropriate for work.

or, as we say where I work,

"The MEETINGS will continue until morale improves."

I just bought that same shirt at the beach this week. Stocked among other shirts with (*air quotes) clever phrases on them.

It's my motto as a mom.

oop, mine says flogging too.

@ClankBoomSteam: Some of us do not put much consideration into t-shirt slogans. I'm sure that there are dozens of things that anybody could come up with on a regular basis that are old and tired for them, but may seem new and interesting to you. I'd wager that the overwhelming majority of people in the world do not spend all that much time thinking about popular slogans on pins, bumper stickers, and t-shirts.

Hrm.... Never thought I'd see a KMFDM reference on Consumerist... Not that I'm complaining in the least. :D Now I must go find this shirt in the pirate store that @JuggaloBo: mentioned...