I'd fire someone who presented me code from the IOCCC (http://www.ioccc.org/) as well. That's entirely beside the point. The point of code like this is that it is short - other things can and will be sacrificed.

Edit: It's like complaining that the Mona Lisa is a crappy painting, because you are insistent on looking at it as if you were a cubist. It's completely missing the point.