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Artist Creates Humorous Comics Depicting Situations In A Modern-Day Office (30 New Pics)
Interview With Artist
Working in an office does not only mean stability and routine but also stress, burnouts and challenges that one has to overcome. So it is not only good but also recommended to distance oneself from all the difficulties at work once in a while by looking at things from the prism of laughter. And we think we can help you with that!
"Work Chronicles" is back on Bored Panda with even more entertaining comics depicting funny incidents in the workplace. Doesn't matter what kind of job you have, we believe that most of us can relate to at least a few of the situations portrayed in these illustrations.
You can find more "Work Chronicles" comics in our previous article. Let us know if any of these have happened to you!
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Kathy Teeter 3 years ago
I had a doctor I worked with who didn't like you sending him emails. "email rhymes with paper trail" he would say. I will reserve comment on my feelings about that doctor overall
Anti-HyperLink 3 years ago
I've literally never known a manager that wanted the employees to work the same hours as them. I've also not seen a manager working much longer than I would be.
Koko Berube 3 years ago
I didn't work in an office, but this was the manager at my work: always complaining about how overworked he was and what sweet hours I had. Dude. U gave me this position.
Jessica Julian 3 years ago
Managers don't get paid handsomely...at least, where I work. Well, only the main manager does.
Sandra Nelson 3 years ago
Yes and remember to not take vacations we want you to commit suicide. Then we can hire young workers and pay them less. True story.
Bored Panda contacted "Work Chronicles" to learn more about the artist and their creative work. The artist has been working for a technology company for around a decade now. "I used to draw comics years ago in college. Once the pandemic hit, I had some free time since I was no longer commuting. I started making comics again to unwind and 'work' was a topic that I had the most experience and interest in. I posted some comics on the internet, got positive feedback and kept it going."
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Thomas Jones 3 years ago
As a senior, my response is usually more, "what have you tried". Sadly, the answer often works out to "not much". I don't generally just say "try to figure out", instead saying more "have you tried X, Y or Z" which provides guidance when the junior doesn't even know where to start chipping at the problem.
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Jaden Hardee 3 years ago
Who dreams of a world without labor? My dream job is a bike shop! not only do i enjoy the work, but I could help neighbors and children who can't build their own bikes. Heck, I'm a roofer now, and it's great work! Keeping families safe and dry, solving puzzles all day, and being paid to lift weights on nice, sunny days! :)
Ivor Lewis 3 years ago
That's a r******d answer. It's widely documented from psychology that people find purpose and worth in their labor. If someone can find something that they get paid for AND contributes to society in some positive way then they are much happier.
Judo Flipped By Nobody 3 years ago
My sister has decided to not work and just be a stay-at-home-mom while her fiance works (he is okay with it)
KAren Jacob 3 years ago
People who criticize stay at home parents should itemize everything they do. How much on laundry and cleaning? Daycare alone is thousands of dollars. Taking your child to library storytime, priceless
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Dallas Ellegood 3 years ago
I spent 3 years not working hiatus. It drove me completely insane. Some people need to work, I DJ now at clubs and am much happier
pinkhawk 3 years ago
No labor doesn't mean do nothing. Do things that are actually important. Help others. Make that part of the world that's around you a better place for all.
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Christine Beard 3 years ago
All animals have to work for food, shelter, and to take care of family. We humans have complicated things, but we still have to work for food, shelter, and to take care of family. Doing something you enjoy is preferable to the alternative.
The artist is self-taught and hasn't had any formal training. "When I was small, I was obsessed with comics. I read every comic book I could find. I would visit different book stores to buy old comic books. I cut out comic strips from newspapers and stuck them on notebooks. Naturally, I had the urge to make comics myself. I doodled everywhere—notebooks, textbooks, newspapers. I continued this habit through school and college. I started drawing comics using pen & paper, but eventually moved to digital tools like Adobe Photoshop, iPad + Apple Pencil + Procreate App and more recently Adobe Illustrator."
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DonS 3 years ago
That! I always use email and chat as a last resort (after 2-3 unanswered emails). When ask why ? I say: Creating a papertrail to protect my behind. It was useful a LOT of times when someone try to blame my department for not sending an important document on time and then showing the papertrail of email asking someone to transmit said documents because HE was late for his part of the work. After 2-3 times, they stopped pestering me and went to the other department first.
Christina Gomez 3 years ago
Boss: Come in to my office and we can discuss your raise. Employee: Let's have an email discussion instead
Kimberlee Lofink 3 years ago
ALWAYS. Sad that it has to be this way, but...people, ya know. Not only learned to email everything, but to time stamp the sending, add a time- stamp notification of being received, another for being read. As for chat, if you must chat, screenshot *everything*!
Thomas Jones 3 years ago
If you're using enterprise chat tools, good likelihood everything is logged and stored – especially if you work in an industry with compliance mandates (government, healthcare, finance, etc). Granted, mail search tends to be a lot more mature, but, I know Ive sent people reminder-links to Slack convos had MONTHS earlier.
David Ginsberg 3 years ago
IM is the tool for the entitled. When someone IMs me it messes up my flow. Email me and I'll get back to you, unless it's urgent, which it never is.
Jaden Hardee 3 years ago
I'm the total opposite LOL message me if it needs to be done, otherwise email it. 8/10 times, I never even see emails
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Shabbir Yamani 3 years ago
Find another job. Work for yourself Don't work for an idiot... (Unless the pay is really good)
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Derrell Walker 3 years ago
Always keep a paper trail. DM's and RM's are paid to lie. Catch them at their own game. Also check your states laws, most states allow you to record conversations without telling anyone you're recording as long as you are in the conversation.
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Julia Purdy 3 years ago
There is never "no work." The only excuse is, I work an 8-hour shift and I clocked in 1 hour early so I can leave 1 hour early...OR I requested to leave early for a doctors appointment and you ignored my request and scheduled me anyway, so... gotta go
"Work Chronicles" still remains a hobby for the artist. "I did the math and it's a lot of risks to do this full-time. I would need to do Patreon, merchandise, books, etc. And while that sounds great, I'm not sure how it would pan out 5 or 10 years down the line. I'm sticking to my day job right now, but who knows."
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Kristen Bellefeuille 3 years ago
Nah I hate Mondays because I'm usually tired from the weekend, but I LOVE my job
NsG 3 years ago
I'm past the age where weekends are filled with tired-making activities. Weekends are for recuperating. I hate Tuesdays. I'm still riding the good feeling and catch-up sleep from the weekend on Monday, but by Tuesday the sleep debt has restarted and I'm groggy until Friday evening/Saturday morning.
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Jb Dean 3 years ago (edited)
I had a job once where almost every time, as I was literally walking out the front door, I would get severe stomach cramps and have to go to the bathroom. This would make me late which would make my bosses upset. I happen to mention it to one of the other employees, and her answer was: “you don’t have the flu you hate your job.” And she was absolutely right! I got a new job and never had that problem again.
Justin Brochhausen 3 years ago (edited)
Monday isn't even the first day of my workweek. I work Sunday through Thursday. The person who usually does a particularly annoying (to me, at least) task is scheduled off Monday (so he can work on Saturday instead) and that task becomes my job to complete in leiu of my regular duties. I despise this task. I hate Mondays.
Judo Flipped By Nobody 3 years ago
i hate mondays because at my school mondays are so boring and bad that i want to cry
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Bob Cakin 3 years ago
Yeah, often times it means the working class are being exploited by the owner class
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DruidsRock 2025 3 years ago
Not in our office. They'd promote Bob, give the Girl his workload and since Bob is completely incompetent, Girl must learn to do that, as well. Oh, and they'd ditch the middleman.
Justin Dough 3 years ago
Bob got fired now Linda has to cover his work and sees he did more than it seemed.
Bob Cakin 3 years ago
Moral of the story is never snitch on your fellow working class. Executives will always find excuses to downsize and stealth promote the remqining workers so they have more work to do. Don't worry though... you'll get paid in "experience"
Load More Replies... No you can't have my name 3 years ago
Your coworkers are not your friends, they will throw you under the bus if it saves their own behind
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Mshauri Mazuri 3 years ago (edited)
Haha it's like not everyone who worked overtime really worked too hard,sometimes they spent most of their time having coffee staring at the screen and when it's about to go,they crammed. I know, coz i did it before, before i realize how important my time is.
"The most challenging part of the creative process is selecting an idea and writing it into a script. I'm more obsessed with the script than the art. Great comics have great scripts. Writing and refining the script is also the part I enjoy the most."
The artist would love to eventually publish a book or a calendar and make short animated videos. Unfortunately, there's not enough time to work on new projects after the day job, comics and family.
"I love expressing ideas in the form of comics. It has the power to entertain as well as educate."
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A Dasher Panda 3 years ago
The worst and dumbest follow-up question any interviewer can ask, after being provided a succinct answer.
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Bettie-Jean Neal 3 years ago
Any recruiter worth their salt will tell you 2 things... NEVER accept a counter offer from your current employer and NEVER tell them where you're going to work next.
David Szeremi 3 years ago
A friend of mine told me the best way to get a raise was to go down the street aka get another job offer.... Somehow people floated around from business to business coming back to the same one at much higher pay
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Koko Berube 3 years ago
When I started taking interviews I suddenly became a *valued employee.*
Shabbir Yamani 3 years ago
Lowlife, manipulative, narcissistic, sociopath. Leave if they exceed the competing offer. You lost years working for peanuts.
Septimus Heap 3 years ago
😌😏And pigs are running to for preside.... no wait that actually happened 😑
Seth Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
Based on your transparent bigotry against younger generations, I'm betting you're a baby boomer who hasn't applied for a job in 30+ years, and have no idea that the employment landscape no longer even resembles what you were used to. I respect that you worked hard, were loyal to your employer(s) and that your hard work and loyalty were rewarded with fair compensation. Please understand that era has passed and those values are extremely rare to find in a modern employer. Ever since applying to jobs online became a thing, employers realized it's super easy to replace people now, so it's become a race-to-the-bottom to pay employees the absolute minimum they can get away with (and gaslight them about it) to pad their profits. It's now commonplace for employees with years of seniority to train new hires that are already making more than they do. The simple reality of the modern American workforce is that in most cases, the only way to get a fair pay increase is to seek new employment.
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Emalee Bespflug 3 years ago
10000% my husbands job. The job is an hour away from our home so he drives 2 hours a day and works 10, plus gets yelled at if he’s only 5 minutes early and they treated him like s**t and wouldn’t let him be on workers comp when he got injured. He wants to get another job but he’s there so early (before anything is open for interviews) and off so late (after the interviewer has left) that there’s never any time!
Seth Marsh 3 years ago
That really sucks. I hope you both can find some time for him to apply elsewhere; no job is worth throwing away your life and soul like that. You'll have to suffer extra hard for a few months, but you'll both be so much happier in the long run. It's like when a chronically exhausted person says they're too tired to exercise, but once they force themselves to do it for a month or two they have so much more energy. If he makes the time now, he'll have so much more time later. I know that it's not that simple, but you both know deep down it actually is that simple. It's just difficult to commit to more hardship when you're already deep in a pit.
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Sofia Gonzalez 3 years ago
Sneaky worker trying to change the subject! The problem is the extra 5 minutes, not that you are overworked!!
C Cat 3 years ago
It means she's staying later to cover the extra 5 minutes during lunch. It can be nearly impossible to go get lunch and come back and eat it within 30 minutes. Delivery is sometimes an option, but $$$. Home lunch is an option, but sometimes you forget or don't have anything to bring.
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Rodney Field 3 years ago
A manager once told me that I took a 31 minute lunch break. I told him to check my history and report back to me how many 15 and 20 minute lunch breaks i took and then get back with me. This ended the conversation and there was no follow up discussion.
Anita Smith 3 years ago
Yeessss!!! So many employers don’t look at stuff like that! Most people bring their jobs home with them to some degree, if only in their mind! Good thing they don’t have to pay for those hours lol! Great point Rodney!
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Lol. 5 minutes. We get pointed for 1. Best believe they better not screw up after becoming wannabe dictators. All the stuff us employees know.
Scott Logan 3 years ago
Or, you might notice I don't spend half the day texting or online shopping.
Guilherme Taffarel Bergamin 3 years ago
In Brazil the company would get in trouble if their lunch break is 30min. Here the minimum by law is 1h
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Charley Birkner 3 years ago (edited)
This actually happened at a former job. Some developers got incensed...cue malicious compliance. They were documenting in such small increments: time working on project A or b or c, time getting up from desk, time going to the bathroom, time even documenting the time itself. This worked for about a week and then the whole policy was discontinued.
Blackstone 3 years ago
For a week we were asked to write down every single thing we did for our jobs (because some responsibilities had shifted and they were trying to make job descriptions or something). They wanted every little thing, like writing emails and phone calls, etc. I don't know how I accomplished anything at all that week. And I definitely made note of the time I was spending on listing my duties.
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Justin Dough 3 years ago (edited)
Before: everyone got work done and. Moved 100,000 pounds a day........ After: down by 50%...... Employees Ignore new rules to once again be world class.... Funny how it screws things up the more they micromanage.
No you can't have my name 3 years ago
Three days of "hi yeah we're still waiting on Purchasing to get back to us" every hour
Shabbir Yamani 3 years ago
Documentation and reports have more value than results Hite a frikking PM to do the data entry work. We don't work for a govt office...
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Lisa Tohannie 3 years ago
That's my life every morning. This morning it took me 5 minutes to wash my face, brush my teeth, brush my hair, put on my clothes and gather all my stuff because I didn't want to get out of bed.
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Every day. Except Thursdays. Thursdays are good. That's my day off. ;P
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Julia Purdy 3 years ago
Yup, this was yesterday... get the disgruntled clients/customers on yr side...encourage them to "complain to the boss"
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daniel sullivan 3 years ago
At my old job (paid hourly), I was asked to go salaried. They explained it entailed working 7 days a week for 55 hours “Will I get a commensurate raise of 37.5% (15/40)?” “No, but you’ll get the same take home pay you get now?” “No thanks “ They seemed genuinely shocked “But … why not?” “Because working for more hours for the same as I get for 40 hours is a reduction of the value of my time “
John Hackley 3 years ago
I logged quite a few 100 hour weeks as a salaried employee during a certain phase of my career. Probably averaged around 50 hours per week during the entirety of my career. Retired at 55, which was the plan from the get-go. Will three decades of total freedom be worth the four decades of Hellish stress? I can't say for certain yet but it's feeling like the right call at the mo. I'll of course be pissed if I get run over by an 18-wheeler.
Robin Woordes 3 years ago
40 and loving it, just don't get used to living in an (too) expensive house and getting (too) much stuff. Enjoy the little things, you've got the time for them.
Fergus Corgi 3 years ago
I don't want a "raise" if you are going to double my workload but only pay me 20% more. I've also been offered a more prestigious title with more responsibilities but no pay raise at all. I turned it down & was accused of not having any ambition. Excuse me? You are asking me to do this extra work for free. I've seen way too many people get strung along for years with promises of more money when this or that happens. Nope.
No you can't have my name 3 years ago
The workers have fallen in love with the system that exploits them
Metallicd3ath 3 years ago
Nicely done, I don't even need the picture of Farquad pointing.
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Perrin Rynning 3 years ago
Anybody remember that classic song? "Ev'rybody's workin' for the weekend..."
Aundrea St.Laurent 3 years ago
This is me on Friday at school, doing no work, talking my friends & staring at the clock until it hits dismissal time & when they call the floor my grade is on, O full on run down the stairs & wait for my brother so we can walk home together.
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CelticElff 3 years ago
I once lost a huge Word document I'd spent months on (like a training manual, with a TOC and hyperlinks to chapters and an index). I actually cried when it got corrupted and was unsalvageable. No usable backups, either. That might've been the first time I really loathed technology.
David Szeremi 3 years ago (edited)
Tech didn't make our lives easier, it increased expectations and complications
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Tom Folsom 3 years ago
I had this happen once, except I hadn’t saved what I was doing because the government computers were working really well (should have known something was up). When I finally said, I should safe this, the computers crashed: it was towards the end of the day, so I said “screw it” and went home.
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Tuula Salonen 3 years ago
For anyone not from USA, this refers to some sort of public display in New York, and not the physical development of a human male...
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Wasd0000 3 years ago
There's a story of a Indonesian college professor giving a lecture for 6hrs and finding out he was muted
Sierra Connell 3 years ago
My teacher did one for an hour but he had us on mute too so we couldn't tell him.
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Julia Purdy 3 years ago
Better be on mute if you can't watch what you are saying... presidents have been brought down for this...
Robert Giese 3 years ago
Lol. Now THAT'S a classic Boomer move. How hard is it to know where the mute icon and hotkeys are?
Shabbir Yamani 3 years ago
It was recorded that's a YouTube channel with solid content and freelance work.
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Drengr 3 years ago
That's what my small town bank did. They were losing customers because of some ridiculous ideas and then they rebranded. They lost a lot more customers, including me after that.
Julia Purdy 3 years ago
Check out "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" with Ben Stiller... nails it, perfect parody of this
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Shabbir Yamani 3 years ago
Never hire workaholics. They are toxic, destroy good culture, make smarter, faster workers leave, expect the whole world to live as miserably as they do and complain incessantly about how hard their life is because of so much work and responsibility.
Christianna Colbert 3 years ago
That IS a terrible weakness, to the point of sickness. Ah, that rat race. I long to retire comfortably.
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David Szeremi 3 years ago
So... I do the thing they tell me to do now... And not the rest.... Done
Kimberlee Lofink 3 years ago
Ok....all work orders will be finished in the order received...* stuffs his precious document at the bottom of the pile*.
Christine Beard 3 years ago
This is why I'm retiring next year. I'd leave sooner, but I can't.
Tuula Salonen 3 years ago
Literally what happened at a job once - I quit, and I heard whoever did that job next, also couldn't manage the workload.
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ayden henderson 3 years ago
Because I am getting very tired of it and you're making me go crazy
Michael Karl 3 years ago
Why?...Why Not?.....Because.... Because Why?....Because Why Not?....Why?
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Matt Stork 3 years ago
Morons are glued to their phones. Every damn store i go in everyone is on their phone. Leave in your locker unless off the clock or on break. I refuse to have kids because technology is creating morons.
Linda Davis 3 years ago
Yet, here you are, using today’s technology to make this comment. Does that make you a moron????
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Yeah, I had a hard time getting my technical team to focus because the keyboard and mobiles were inseparable twins on the work desk. One view on the monitor and the other one on the mobile.
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Metallicd3ath 3 years ago
I mean, he's able to answer yes despite being under pressure, so, clearly that's accurate.
Shabbir Yamani 3 years ago
That's what will be shot from his head under pressure. Like a mafia punishment scene.
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Ugh_What_Now 3 years ago
Forgot... Loathing the idiot asking questions that only pertain to themselves thereby keeping EVERYONE in the call longer; instead of just waiting for the call to end and contacting the host separately like a decent human being.
Avery Roff-Nichols 3 years ago
Funnily enough, some people being on mute doesn't reduce the value they bring to the meeting
Henry Crank 3 years ago
There needs to be a category for when the meeting crashes, has to be restarted and wait for everyone to join again.
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David Szeremi 3 years ago
Better than saying you have a good work life balance then leaning on you to work weekends without notice
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Good screener.. but should have been in the job description under Required Qualifications
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Carl Reichart 3 years ago
I received 100+ emails/day. If I was off a day or two, during which I wouldn't/couldn't check them because I refused a laptop, I would come back to 500+ emails coupled with dozens of voice mails asking me if I received their emails.
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Annie Heiliger 3 years ago (edited)
I delay-deliver emails back to myself that I can't get to right away. Same subjects go to same days. My inbox is always empty and I can focus on similar things at the same time (unless a fire needs put out)
Metallicd3ath 3 years ago
My work email is on the left, and personal email is on the right. I have a few newsletters and content updates that I'm signed up for notifications on, and want to be notified, but don't usually open up and read. Same thing with copies of receipts and the like.
Christine Beard 3 years ago
I clear my email obsessively. That entails moving much of it to folders where I never will look at it again.
Fran Forbes 3 years ago
My morning every flipping workday. 167 Unread emails after 16 hrs vacation And yet, I love my job
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Red 3 years ago
"No, carl. Whats rude is piling work onto me, slowing me down with useless pleasantries and comments that I'm always rushing through conversations, just to add more work to my already overextended load, and then yelling at me when I can't keep up, after you yourself slowed me down. Now, do you need me or are you just here to create a reason to scream later?"
David Stuckey 3 years ago
Like that moment on the HHGG when the group realizes someone might have to sacrifice themselves to save the rest, and Zaphod turns to Marvin the Android and asks "Hey, Marvin kid how ya doing?"Arvin replies "Very badly, I suspect. . . "
Perrin Rynning 3 years ago
That is a literal translation of the traditional Klingon greeting, pronounced "Nookh-nekh"...
Julia Purdy 3 years ago
Rude? What is that??? This generation doesn't know any other way to be
Cynthia Campbell 3 years ago
Most of my primary relationships now are based on sharing feelings, checking in, no agenda!! 🎉👌🏾🌟🥳🥰
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Justin Brogden 3 years ago
Yep, I've worked at a company that had its own gym, served employees free lunch every day, and let us bring our dogs to work. Soon realized it was because they never wanted us to leave!
Edward DelaGarza 3 years ago
A job I worked at offered ping pong as a perk. Only the managers played. Whenever an employee tried management would look at you and ask why you aren't working. Everyone that worked there ended up hating ping pong.
Bob Cakin 3 years ago
Always be wary of workplaces that have stuff like showers, gyms, etc. They have all that stuff with the implication that you won't ever have to leave work...
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CelticElff 3 years ago
THIS. Middle managers are suddenly keenly aware of how unnecessary they are. Micromanagers are feeling the pressure and reality that they are NOT as needed as they think they are.
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Chicken Nugget 3 years ago
Every single job that advertises requirements of "knowledge" and "skill" is really just like this.
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ZAPanda 3 years ago
The simpler solution is to make the password requirement minimum like 14 chars. And let people keep it. 14 chars is basically uncrackable with brute force.
Olga Aftyka 3 years ago
Yup. Mine has 15, and it stays till i die or am fired :D
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Arthur Waite 3 years ago
One place, we had to create a new password every new month. So, I made a formula based on the month: January=#1; February=#2; etc. Followed all the requirements, and easy to remember.
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Arthur Waite 3 years ago
Now we know why the cellphone companies announce a new model every, what is it, six months? And probably explains Windows 11, too.
Kate Johnson 3 years ago
Am I the only one who still hasn't figured out why the Galaxy went straight to 20 from like, 12? Wait: it wasn't to avoid a Galaxy s13, was it? It was, wasn't it? (I think I just dotted my own i! 😉)
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NsG 3 years ago
Called out by B'Ellana on Voyager - "I don't pad my time to make myself look good. If I say it'll take 2 hours, it'll take 2 hours".
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ZAPanda 3 years ago (edited)
exactly. If your page contains ANY of the above, OR animated gif banners, or "subscribe" popups with overlays, i CLOSE it INSTANTLY. BOOM f**k you and your advertising revenue. If your advert banners are STILL, I do not care how many they are. Just make sure (A) they do not intrude into the content and (B) they do not move or animate or make sounds.
Metallicd3ath 3 years ago
On the topic of this, I keep getting this one ad on BP that has flashing red borders, and can't be closed properly, if I tap too close to the bottom of the screen, it still registers it as a click on the ad, even if the ad itself is not showing (also triggers slightly above the visible ad-space if the ad *is* showing. Absolutely the most annoying ad I've seen in a long time.
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hungwy panda 3 years ago
With ADHD it is the exact opposite for me. I don't my talking time to end.
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Ann Franchi 3 years ago
Eager young interviewer, obviously reading from a script: And where do you see yourself in 25 years? Me, 65 years old, and marking time until full retirement: Dead. Or in a nursing home ...
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Dillon Brown 3 years ago
Manager: I'm firing you for embezzlement. Bob: but I never embezzled! Manager:I know, I did, now I'm pinning it on you! Unless you want to spend time in prison you better keep your mouth shut cuz all the work I had you doing makes it look like it was you!
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ZAPanda 3 years ago
I don't get this one. Are they saying managers put out bigger fires or managers create fires?
Kat Girl 3 years ago
They are saying the managers mostly put out the fires, and then they give you credit because the fires are smaller now, aka ‘managers put out bigger fires’
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Metallicd3ath 3 years ago
This feels like the most wholesome and pro-manager comic here, and it's down at the bottom. I feel like people just like fire (metaphorically) or something.
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Ruben M 3 years ago
I'm looking for the one where you have to train the person to do the job of the promotion you interviewed for. Happened at a company I stayed way too long at. I was the "go-to" person in my then current position. Opportunity for a promotion came up and I applied and interviewed. They ended up giving it to a gal fresh out of college. They had her shadow me for a few weeks so I could train her to do the job I wanted. Wasn't her fault, but it was hard not to have contempt. By the end of training someone ended up telling her the situation and she was very apologetic. I was quick to tell her that it was 100% management, not her.
Jonathan West 3 years ago
That's what's known as a "Subject Matter Expert". And it's a way for management to get more work from its veterans without paying them more.
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Bernice Xkembri 3 years ago
i really hate corporate work, it's the worst decision i've ever made.
Phillip Healy 3 years ago
I created an account just to ask: what about this is propaganda? Do you disagree that people are overworked and underpaid?
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Ruben M 3 years ago
I'm looking for the one where you have to train the person to do the job of the promotion you interviewed for. Happened at a company I stayed way too long at. I was the "go-to" person in my then current position. Opportunity for a promotion came up and I applied and interviewed. They ended up giving it to a gal fresh out of college. They had her shadow me for a few weeks so I could train her to do the job I wanted. Wasn't her fault, but it was hard not to have contempt. By the end of training someone ended up telling her the situation and she was very apologetic. I was quick to tell her that it was 100% management, not her.
Jonathan West 3 years ago
That's what's known as a "Subject Matter Expert". And it's a way for management to get more work from its veterans without paying them more.
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i really hate corporate work, it's the worst decision i've ever made.
Phillip Healy 3 years ago
I created an account just to ask: what about this is propaganda? Do you disagree that people are overworked and underpaid?
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