You may have already heard about this, but me and my co-workers received an extra-special Christmas bonus from our parent company Viacom this year: significantly reduced benefits! Yay! For some reason, lots of people didn’t like this gift, so today there was a massive walk-out demonstration outside of MTV Networks. I went down there hoping to find Michael Moore aiming a tie-dyed hippie-cannon right at TRL studios as he was cheered on by hordes of my outraged co-workers, but he wasn’t there, and even though he didn’t deliver my creative underclass from the scourge of corporate greed, I did find some pretty hilarious protest signs! So in the spirit of Vh1, here are the Top 5 Protest Signs At The MTV Walk-Out!
5. A little “on-the-nose”, but still, a nice integration of the logo for testosterone-TV channel Spike, and the time-honored practice of congregating with your peers to fight against unfair labor conditions.
4. Direct, effective and unmistakably on-message, this just didn’t put forth the creative “oomph” I was looking for. But we do appreciate the shout-out!
3. Spongebob Sickpants! I like how this shows the kinda adorable side of being unfairly and unnecessarily oppressed by your pitiless corporate overlords.
2. My Super-Sweet $16,000 Medical Benefits: I love this one, because it adopts the faux-positive ironic tone made so famous on Vh1 and MTV, and makes a pretty brutal point about the fact that pretty soon, my co-workers and I are not going to be able to afford the medical attention necessary to continue living should life-threatening tragedy befall us.
1. How awesome would it have been if someone else had a sign that said “Viacom Has John Norris-pect For It’s Employees”!?!
After the jump, an honoroable mention!
HONORABLE MENTION: The “Zing!” at the end made it somehow sort of funny. Or at least worth mentioning.
