May 28th, 2008
#517 - Value
It’s funny how a bunch of people that you have never really met and have no way of knowing how your job actually works will get together and decide how to change things to make your job more productive.
It’s funny how a bunch of people that you have never really met and have no way of knowing how your job actually works will get together and decide how to change things to make your job more productive.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:04 am
I know the feeling >:|
May 28th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Oh boy, Northern Skunk Melon! It’s so much better than the Southern variety!
The Duck Has Spoken.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:07 am
I want seeds!
May 28th, 2008 at 12:41 am
I wonder if Biff has tried the melon. I wonder if it tastes more like cantalope or honeydew.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:58 am
I think Biff should get paid just for being able to stack those melons so well…
May 28th, 2008 at 2:45 am
“It’s funny how a bunch of people that you have never really met and have no way of knowing how your job actually works will get together and decide how to change things to make your job more productive.”
I went to a presentation sort of thing of a group/business that does this. When I asked them what the effect of them not actually how to do the job’s they analyse is on their restructuring is, they said none.
They think of blocks of task to complete with average times and then move them around (sometimes ignoring the order that is necessary).
What an idiot would hire them?
May 28th, 2008 at 2:46 am
MINIMUM WAAAAGGGE! HE-YAH! *cracks whip.*
May 28th, 2008 at 4:19 am
Summer job week…
May 28th, 2008 at 4:53 am
It seems to be human nature to do as such. We’re all backseat drivers at heart; we never want to take the wheel, but we want to give the directions.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:25 am
The greatest thing is when the supervisor can’t do what the underlings are supposed to do (I used to work at Walmart).
May 28th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Sounds like you work for the same company as me almost. My higher ups are convinced ‘any job that can be done here, can be done offshore.’ From their podium, looking down, I’m sure it looks that way. Down here doing the job though, it simply doesn’t work that way.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Food Service Week?
May 28th, 2008 at 10:44 am
I know a guy who likes stinky cheese.
I think part of his pleasure is the reaction
he gets from others while he eats.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:19 am
I read this one and laughed so hard I got stared at by my co-workers.
One of my old bosses tried to do this to me. Unfortunately for her, I was considered “indispensable personnel” so I was able to completely ignore her restructuring without any fear of reprisal beyond her ranting at me a little. Whenever she brought it up to our superiors, I would attack her stratagies with pure, unadulterated knowledge of the job.
I was vindicated later when she was fired for decreasing overall production by about 40%.
I was also promoted to her position.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:28 am
“Whenever she brought it up to our superiors, I would attack her stratagies with pure, unadulterated knowledge of the job.”
This really made me smile.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Gobbledegook, sometimes there is justice in the world. I salute you!
May 28th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Wow. Now I can’t tell what week it is. Job week? Food Service week? O well.
Once again, great comic, Chris.
May 28th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
AWESOMENESS!
Hey, it can’t be that bad, especially if the clothespin is free.
May 28th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
@ no name;
It still looks like “Joe Job” week to me - Manning a roadside fruit stand? Pretty menial! Especially a stand that gives away for free fruit that no one wants!
May 28th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Could skunk melon be a non-animal replacement for musk in perfumes? Otherwise, it still makes for good prank material. Now I’m curious about the exact properties of skunk melon, e.g. how strong the smell is, how long it lingers, and whether it smells like “musk” or “dead skunk”.
See, you can still find someone who’ll take skunk melon–just so long as they don’t have to eat it.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
“It’s funny how a bunch of people that you have never really met and have no way of knowing how your job actually works will get together and decide how to change things to make your job more productive.”
That’s why the degree they get is called an “M.B.A.” It means “More Bad Advice”.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Skunk Mellon, I hear, is one of those love ‘em or hate ‘em sorts of things. But I have also heard that not freezing them is a great way to vacate a room/building.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
You hear correctly. In fact, they work better than you say. I am immune to bad smells thanks to a pair of ferrets. The rest of my neighborhood was not so well prepared.
Skunk Melon actually starts smelling better after two weeks of decomposing.
August 29th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Sometimes I have the feeling that both Chris and Biff work for the same people I’m working for. Maybe the More Bad Advice people are the same in all the world.
@Gobbledegook: you’re my hero. Screwing the system with its own screwdriver