Man is this story awesome and I’m 100% surprised it didn’t happen way sooner.  It was bound to right?

According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fidelity recently axed four league commissioners in the Fantasy Purge of ‘09.

Cameron Pettigrew, who worked as a “relationship manager in a private client group” (which sounds a lot like the job description of a fantasy commish), was among those terminated:

“Firing a guy for being in a $20 fantasy league? Let’s be honest, that’s a complete overreaction,” said Pettigrew, who lives in Grapevine and has an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington. “In this economic time, especially. To fire people over something like this, it’s just cold.”

That does seem cold. But multi-billion-dollar financial services corporations are not generally known for their warmth. Apparently there are anti-gambling rules in place at Fidelity

Um, with all due respect Cameron, you’re an idiot.  In fact, in this economic time the most important thing you should be doing is trying to drum up business, not worry about whether or not you should play Ben Roethisberger or David Gerrard depending on matchups.

Cold?  It’s cold to fire someone for spending most of their time online talking smack and trying to make trades?  Hell there’s an entire show on this on F/X (The League – which is actually pretty funny).

This is nearly like George Costanza having sex in the office, getting fired and saying “was that wrong?  should I not have done that?”  Clearly you’re walking a thin line when you’re surfing porn and checking fantasy stats all day.  These guys were just called out on it and got what they deserved.

In the same token the article does nothing to describe their performance at work.  Bottom line, these guys are in sales and if they were doing well it shouldn’t matter.  As the saying goes, “if you’re outperforming your quota you can take a shit on your manager’s desk and it wouldn’t matter.” Unfortunately we don’t know if these guys were doing well or not.  I can only assume it was affecting their performance.

And to all the guys in my fantasy league.  Get to work you deadbeats.