Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 20, 2011

YES!! return to leather lungin’ it as fast as humanly possible!!

Please tell me she won’t insist on his singing the company song…

Pfft. You are not loyal to WW – just trying to keep your job. Told you not to get snared into her black widow web. She is twisting your arm to pledge loyalty to her for a personal reason that is not work-related. QUIT! Get away when you can! She is not worth it.

wellllllllllllllll……………… at “least” Brad said he was with WW, not “with Ann Eiffel”

Of course he’s returning to the fire department. Do you reallybelieve there’s a future, as a hot dog jockey!!

Right — loyal to a fast food job.

LOL.

A good Wienie World manager would never expect an employee to pass up re-entry into an actual profession.

Then again, we know this manager isn’t “good”.

Shift managers at fast food outlets draw about $15,000 a year, $20,000 if they’re bumped up to assistant manager.

That’s half what Brad would get if his fireman position opened up again.

All that’s expected in fast food jobs is hard work and a bit of devotion to the job while you have it

Only the self-important Ann Eiffel would try to make you promise to marry it.

Heil.All of corporate iss a totalitarian, anti-democratic nightmare to depend on for employment and loyalty.Doesn’t anybody remember what it was like? Yeah, you got paid. Doesn’t matter where you work: once you figure it out, it’s ALL Weenie World.

Considering Ann’s attitude toward Brad up to now, I’d expect him to be suspicious when she suddenly offers a promotion and pay raise in return for loyalty to her (first) and WeenieWorld (second). Be very careful, Brad! IT’S A TRAP!

Is there a fire in Weenie World’s future? (At least the weenies wouldn’t be sent out raw.)

Sounds like me first Boss who told me I had to make a choice between working for him at minimum wage (no raises… EVER) or going to collage. Easiest decision I ever made.

On the other hand, my second boss (delivering Pizza) told us he would be very disappointed in us if we stayed with delivering pizza long term.

SERVITUDE !!!.Has anyone REALLY LOOKED at todays ‘job-market’? … The ONLY thing the bosses want is loyalty to THEIR Company. YOU, as Employee, get NO “loyalty” BACK! .CUT; your hours, cut your benefits (IF you had any to begin with!), or tell you “Company Co-Pay” is stopping – YOU have to pay for ALL your Insurance coverages, THEN – force a ‘newly created position’ on you, JUST so they can pay you the “new Job’s scale wage”, which is HALF to 2/3’rds what you DID get for pay!.Why do you think people are marching? – Because they like band music?.

Use lies Brad. It’s obvious she is interested in you, and not as a scullery boy. Tell her your loyalty is purchased with opportunity. Then see what “type” of opportunity she is willing to lay on the table – or accross her desk for that matter.

If the strip was a mousetrap, Brad would just about have the cheese off, and here comes the steel bar.

Sometimes I really wish the characters could hear the voice of reason of the many voices telling them what to do. But, this is only a cartoon written and drawn in another time. What will be will be. Still, BRAD YOU ARE A MORON!

Like Bernice said on July 16, “That girl is seriously demented”.

After high school my manager at the restaurant where washed dishes for 5.00/hr gave me a similar speech (loyal to the company, go far). Now I’m a firefighter. What’s the downside you ask? Being stuck in a dead in job, making near poverty wages, being a cog in the wheel for everyone else.

oh for heaven’s sake, spring the fire department’s (or a nearby fire department’s) “We want you back” story line already!

Tell her whatever she wants to hear, but do what ya gotta do for yourself (and Toni) in secret. Remember that in this day and age, loyalty is meaningless to management – it’s all about “what have you done for me in the last 5 minutes?”

One other point I forgot to mention… say whatever you need to say in order to keep the job, but SIGN NO AGREEMENTS!

The psychology of petty managers dictates that small-minded people settle into dead-end jobs where the only available gratification is making others miserable. I refer you to this excellent strip for further elucidation. “I sup on your purest despair,” indeed…

The greatest tragedy: our economy is such that many people have no recourse but to take jobs of this nature.

Brad, you’re skating on thin ice! I’m glad he explicitly said WW instead of Ann in the last panel, but I’m hoping this is enough to get him to realize that she’s up to no good.

Inglish majors, so uppity.

So, Greg.WHEN are we going to see the strip where Brad throws his Weenie-World uniform in Eiffel’s face while telling Her to TAKE this Job and SHOVE it Up Her perfectly formed rear-end??

Of course, you should do your best at your job, but you have to remember that some people ARE waiting to work elsewhere.

These are mostly college students who work one kind of job in order to get through college, and when they graduate, they will look for the job they really want, and once they have it, they’ll switch to that job.

heck yes i want to make a nickel more than minimum! i wouldn’t ever consider a firefighters 62 thousand dollar a year starting wage!

Why am I commenting? Everyone else already made my pertinent points for me. :/ :P

As I read this, why am I thinking – Disclosure with Demi Moore & Michael Douglas?

Susan said 20K(assistant manager) was half of what Brad would get if he had his firefighter job back………….20k is half of 40K

Brad will not do anything to mess up his relationship with Toni. And Brad could not lie to her and get away with it if he did want to take a tumble with Ann. She has opened the door for him, but he won’t walk through. I think he sees where she is going with the double meanings and he will stay on the employee side. The question is how far will she go.

Don’t do it Brad! Your girl has bigger hair!

He is a weenie.

If Toni was witness to the velvet trap Ann is springing on Brad, she would yank him out of there so fast his shoes would fly off. Brad is looking at the bitter facts of unemployment, though. Mom kicks him out of his home. Chances are he would move in with Toni. And TJ would move back with the Degroots (Nancy likes his cooking).

@draksigI guess you picked working for him at minimum wage? You probably didn’t go to “college” since you spelled it wrong.

Ann will need to go all out. She should go back and sit on the desk, slip off a shoe, and run her toe up his arm. As Toni has never required such methods of seduction, I doubt Brad has ever had this done to him. I also doubt he could handle it.

I’m looking forward to the day when Brad graduates from being a Weenie by actually growing a couple, and walking out of there, damn the consequences. I guess Weenie World is “collage” for Brad at this point, and until he figures it out, he won’t “graduate”. At this point, it’s hard to believe he’s with someone as fine as Toni.:Ann is such a sad little control freak that she wants to squash the words coming out of Brad’s mouth, but is so petty and small minded that she thinks she can also control his thoughts – but she sure is trying.

As said, Say what ever it takes to keep a job. If a promotion and a raise is included then so be it. Don’t sign anything. When the fire department opens up again. Just say Bye-Bye Ann, i GOT A BETTER OFFER!

“I want to delete “Luann” it isn’t funny anymore

How loyal is WW to him?

So no more chatting with friends if he wants to keep this job and earn the extra money.

This has nothing to do with the job.

@mojitobaby – sadly Ann thinks personal loyalty (“devotion”) does indeed have everything to do with the job. I got fired over something like this once, boss required loyalty to him over loyalty to the business, to the truth etc. Mediocre managers think this way. I know you get this, just wanted to clarify.

I believe no job is beneath you, but she’s making it sound like she’s making him the CEO of weenieworld or something…

Brad: Get away from that witch, now ! She will eat you for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And, she can !

TCayer — what Wiselad said.

And Wiselad, thanks for covering!

Hi Otto!

I don’t usually pick on one-letter typos, but that was so subtle and funny I literally choked on my laughter.

I know you were just teasing, cos you’d never be mean.

I think Mojito and I are on the same page here — I know fast food workers and retail managers, and have been the latter.

NO manager at a minimum-wage-paying company actually believes that loyalty extracted in this fashion is genuine.

As the Sheriff said (and Hi, Mordecai!) it ain’t the job.

It’s the power, baby — making people say and do things they don’t want to say or do.

In a time of high unemployment, Eiffel knows she can extract promises that won’t be kept, but she loves the squirming.

She doesn’t want Brad, and, probably, she doesn’t even want Toni.

But she’d love to cause a break-up just to reinforce her status as Queen.

Incredible – the biggest troll this strip has ever had, who constantly whined and moaned on comics.com and here about how outrageous it was that someone, one time, told him to “go with the flow” so that he made it his personal mission to deliberately refuse, is now doing the same thing – AGAIN! (Flashman, are you there for this rerun?)

All anyone has to do is check out my post yesterday, because I look like Nostradamus today. Ann is just as misunderstood as poor put-upon Tiffany – jeez, could the trolling be any more obvious?

And if this is “just a comic strip”, then it’s doubly pathetic that this troll has been devoting years to this effort.

@SusanSunshine – bingo, it is all about being Queen.

TJ could make it look like an accident for $10,000. Half up front, half when the job is done. (That’s what I’m hoping, anyway.)

Hey, Annie… Sticking yer chest out a bit in the last panel, aren’t ya?

Fire house ain’t gonna happen. Brad is headed for a career change to the fast food business, and Annie is going to get him into upper management. She is probably a management recruiter placed in that resturant to find new talent.

Brad’s not going back to the fire department until a)Toni has a belly full of Eiffel and b) gives her an earfull to chew on.

I have to say I’m torn..the logical part of me says, don’t mess with this woman.’ The illogical part (guess) says, ‘man, that woman’s name ain’t no accident, I’D HIT IT!’ Well, I never did listen to that illogical part of me, that’s why I’m still sane and healthy … RUN, BRAD, RUN!!

Oh, and interesting dialogue construction here as well, Greg. Ann mentions herself, then ‘Weenie World’ (hard to stop them Freudian slips, now ain’t it?) And Brad comes back with ‘Weenie World’, a bit hesitantly, but only that. HMMMMM…..