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Didn’t Johnny Cash have a song about an auto assembly-line worker who stole a different component every day for 7 years until he could build his own Frankensteinmobile?
That’s why US companies struggle so much in the present economy. Obviously there ARE other ways to do it, as is proven by the german economy. The past 3 years showed the worth of LOYALITYFROMBOTHSIDES. When the last decline 2008 made companies fire their staff everywhere else, the German middle sized industry kept as many of their employes as possible – especially the more experienced ones, by negotiating for reduced working hours and temporary pay cuts. Then, as demand rose a little someplace in the world they could always offer delivery “schnell und gut” and made the deal with good prices, putting their highly skilled employees back in work and full pay. Today these politics keeps demand for skilled workers ski-high and anybody with professional experience can get a job with a German employer for a good wage quite easily if he/she is willing to move to where needed in Germany.
I know this is “just” a comic strip, but I’m amazed, but not surprised, at the depiction of a company which (companies are NOT people) hires a top executive at a hefty salary, and then proceeds to lay off the people who do the actual work, including a very valuable employee. Executives, seriously, are a dime a dozen. Good employees who know what they are doing and contribute daily, are not.
Been there, done that, this strip is depressing me right now. So many bad memories. Except the last one, the manager hired to fire us got fired when he finished his task. And the company ended up rehiring in a hurry when it discovered that five brand new and cheap young people cannot do the job of twenty three experienced ones.
I used to work for a wonderful company that treated us as humans, not “human resources”. They were bought out in 1989, and over 130 of us still get together once a year to talk about what a great place it was to work.
24 years, actually; but the point’s the same. And according to the occasionally reliable Wikipedia, someone actually built one of the dang things just to see if he could do it.
My question is, after all these years, why Delainey and Rasmussen decided to take Betty out of the domestic sphere and give her all this tsouris? I wouldn’t care but the crowbar insertion of her supposed best friend Alex as her boss and downsizer seems quite a stretch. Is this just so Betty can become a writer?
Betty is a smart, savvy comic character who is unapologetically ordinary, happy and female. Betty is a truly modern woman - a wife, mother and working woman.
Berger & Wyse by Pascal Wyse and Joe Berger
Bewley by Anthony Blades
Comments (31) (Please sign in to comment)
simpsonfan2 said, 11 months ago
That is why it’s best to have the stuff that can most damage them inside your head where they can’t do anything about it.
Revenge is sweet.
wecatsgocomics said, 11 months ago
Extremely well put, Betty! And simpsonfan2 is very much on target, also!
Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist said, 11 months ago
Apply for a job with their greatest competitor?
Richard S. Russell said, 11 months ago
Didn’t Johnny Cash have a song about an auto assembly-line worker who stole a different component every day for 7 years until he could build his own Frankensteinmobile?
Ulan said, 11 months ago
That’s why US companies struggle so much in the present economy. Obviously there ARE other ways to do it, as is proven by the german economy.
The past 3 years showed the worth of LOYALITY FROM BOTH SIDES. When the last decline 2008 made companies fire their staff everywhere else, the German middle sized industry kept as many of their employes as possible – especially the more experienced ones, by negotiating for reduced working hours and temporary pay cuts. Then, as demand rose a little someplace in the world they could always offer delivery “schnell und gut” and made the deal with good prices, putting their highly skilled employees back in work and full pay.
Today these politics keeps demand for skilled workers ski-high and anybody with professional experience can get a job with a German employer for a good wage quite easily if he/she is willing to move to where needed in Germany.
Nachikethass said, 11 months ago
I wonder who will fire Alex – but then it wouldn’t matter to her, would it?
JackiAnne said, 11 months ago
Once Alex is done firing everyone they want her to fire, the CEO will fire her.
jeffc42
said, 11 months ago
I know this is “just” a comic strip, but I’m amazed, but not surprised, at the depiction of a company which (companies are NOT people) hires a top executive at a hefty salary, and then proceeds to lay off the people who do the actual work, including a very valuable employee. Executives, seriously, are a dime a dozen. Good employees who know what they are doing and contribute daily, are not.
Fdavid said, 11 months ago
If you remember, Betty is being "downsized " because she rated the company only 4 out of 5.
cabalonrye said, 11 months ago
Been there, done that, this strip is depressing me right now. So many bad memories. Except the last one, the manager hired to fire us got fired when he finished his task. And the company ended up rehiring in a hurry when it discovered that five brand new and cheap young people cannot do the job of twenty three experienced ones.
Dani Rice
said, 11 months ago
I used to work for a wonderful company that treated us as humans, not “human resources”. They were bought out in 1989, and over 130 of us still get together once a year to talk about what a great place it was to work.
K M
said, 11 months ago
@Richard S. Russell
24 years, actually; but the point’s the same. And according to the occasionally reliable Wikipedia, someone actually built one of the dang things just to see if he could do it.
GreggW
said, 11 months ago
@JackiAnne
I think we’re all hoping for that development. Thanks to cabalonrye for giving us an example of it happening in real life.
nighthawks
said, 11 months ago
@Richard S. Russell
so, in this song, how did the worker get the engine block, the body parts, for god’s sake- the frame past security?
kas300 said, 11 months ago
My question is, after all these years, why Delainey and Rasmussen decided to take Betty out of the domestic sphere and give her all this tsouris? I wouldn’t care but the crowbar insertion of her supposed best friend Alex as her boss and downsizer seems quite a stretch. Is this just so Betty can become a writer?