February 24th, 2009
#706 – Match
Some parts of my job aren’t really very hard, just tedious. It’s strange when I can sometimes have an entire workday filled with these tasks. I know at the end of the day I did a lot of “stuff” but it almost feels like nothing happened. Would anyone have noticed if I wasn’t there?
February 24th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Come on, Biff… they’re even colour-coordinated!
February 24th, 2009 at 12:32 am
i feel the same way about my job
February 24th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Actually those are the days when they wouldn’t notice you’re there – but would painfully notice if you wasn’t.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:35 am
Leadership qualities…putting a square peg in a round hole.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:51 am
Children’s stuff at work week.
February 24th, 2009 at 5:09 am
Anything can fit anywhere if you have a sledgehammer to cram it in
February 24th, 2009 at 6:17 am
lol, I feel the same way about my life.
February 24th, 2009 at 6:32 am
Despite color-coding, getting a round peg in a round hole CAN be surprisingly difficult, management-wise.
February 24th, 2009 at 7:52 am
If I don’t show up for school, they document it on a little piece of paper. It’s really a good system, but it doesn’t exactly motivate me to jump up and get to class.
February 24th, 2009 at 8:22 am
so… this week’s theme is an advertisement for Office Space on Blu-ray?
February 24th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Jobs meets early childhood memories week.
February 24th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Weird… Still, if that’s what’s expected of managers these days, I might try for a job. I can be pretty childish at times…
February 24th, 2009 at 11:26 am
So true.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
I think I understand now – those pieces are far too small and theoretically could fit in any of those holes. If Biff happened to be color-blind this could present a problem. Or, what if he’s expected to think outside the box in this particular interview? Is this a metaphor for the company? They wouldn’t have told him that…what to do…
Also, would he be considered under- or *over-*dressed for the position?
February 24th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I have had too many jobs like the one Biff is interviewing for, minus the colour. It seems great to have such a simple job for a week or so and then you want to gouge your eyes out because you’re so bored and everything is so gray that you would sacrifice your eyeballs just to, momentarily, see some colour and feel something; anything.
Wow! That’s really bitter and cynical of me.
Go for it Biff! Start with the shapes with the fewest sides and work your way up from there.
February 24th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Hmmm. I used to have a supervisor whose pet phrase was, “You could be replaced by a button that didn’t work.” Of course, he said it about himself too, so I didn’t take it all that seriously.
Luckily, my mind is rarely paying attention to what my body does, so it can ignore work like that too…
February 24th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Biff: “Sorry sir, I can’t do it”
Boss: “You’ll be perfect for the open vice president position!”
Zing!
February 24th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
We’d notice if you weren’t here! We wouldn’t have a Biff comic!
It’d take us awhile to notice if you disappeared on a weekend though. >_>
February 24th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
From my personal experience, many marketing people at my work would fail this interview!
February 24th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
February 24th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
If Biff makes it past this test, what will be the next dreadful task? Flashcards? Coloring without going outside the lines? Making an imaginary cake in a little oven? The agony!!
February 24th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
the a few weeks ago at my job i was doing the same thing for 4 or 5 days straight. The thing took less then half a minute to do the repeated procedure each time. I think you get the idea.
February 24th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
This always happens just when you don’t think you’ll need the things you learned early on ever again.
February 25th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
My friends and I were just talking about this game. What was it’s name? No matter whether or not you got all the pieces in the right holes, it still buzzed, and shot all of them up into the air, scaring the living jeebus out of anyone nearby.
February 27th, 2009 at 2:42 am
First: Love your comics! Second: There are guides as to how to do as little as possible in as long time as possible at work. Just google it! ^^
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I feel the same way about my school.
I can do it, the rest can’t for some reason.