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   Margueritem said, 12 months ago

   I can’t believe that Mr. Rod is that stupid.

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   jmworacle said, 12 months ago

   Either Joey has a
   “hot” Mom, sister, and/or girldfriend that Mr. Rod has gotten to know in the biblical sense or Joey has some dirt over him…….

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   Doctor Toon said, 12 months ago

   In every business, there’s eventually a Joey. Most of the time they don’t last long, but this IS a comic strip. He’s there because so many of us have worked with someone like him. He’s funny as long as you don’t actually have to work with him.

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   oldlegodad said, 12 months ago

   I even had them working for me in USAF where they avoided the Army draft during ‘nam.When I gave one a truthful performance report,I was told to upgrade it as “..you’ll ruin his career.” I refused. He was assigned to my boss, who, in a month told me “You were right”

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   Wildmustang1262 said, 12 months ago

   If I were in Baldo’s shoes, I would not work with Joey in that shop because he is a “brown nose.”

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   lunchwagon said, 12 months ago

   we get it already. mexicans work hard, white dudes dont. the joke is getting old

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   Dale Garratt said, 12 months ago

   Well, Lunchwagon, it’s not actually that, I think, but the point is that some workers pull a lot more than their share of the weight becuz others are such slackers. This strip happens to be by Cuban (or Mexican?) writers, so the main character is Latino, or as we say in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Hispanic.
   The point is the lazy worker/hard worker dynamic, not a racial one!

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   Dale Garratt said, 12 months ago

   This also reminds me of the old joke in the former Soviet Union. A UN inspector goes to the Soviet factory and sees all these guys lazing around, drinking vodka and playing cards. He asks why? One guy answers him, “Here they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.”