Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller

Non Sequitur

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  1. pouncingtiger

    pouncingtiger said, almost 3 years ago

    Probably the only person who doesn’t suck up to him. That’s why he’s being laid off.

    This must be an insurance company or a bank.

  2. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, almost 3 years ago

    Ah, yes, “priorities.” I long to see the day when firings start at the top rather at the bottom!

  3. Sheik Yerbouti

    Sheik Yerbouti said, almost 3 years ago

    Too close to the truth to be funny.

  4. HighPriestMikhal

    HighPriestMikhal said, almost 3 years ago

    What do the people in power–executives in the literal meaning of the word and of every type–care? They’ve got their butts covered, and if not they’ll just use us to cushion that fall from the top. Which will come sooner rather than later when they keep cutting out from the very foundation of their power just to keep their posh little luxuries.

  5. Hillbillyman

    Hillbillyman said, almost 3 years ago

    Is this one of Al Gore’s Mansions?

  6. myming

    myming said, almost 3 years ago

    can he get unemployment insurance (benefits) ?

  7. pbarnrob

    pbarnrob said, almost 3 years ago

    Depends; in the US, if it’s called a layoff, yes, but if it’s called firing, no. Swedes don’t have such a dichotomy. When I worked for the short-lived Honeywell Ericsson Development Co., after some three years, I was fired, mainly because Honeywell had pulled back $2.5M that had already been spent, and there were no volunteers for layoff. My project was upscoped three weeks before deadline, with no re-negotiation, and oh, I ‘didn’t fit in with the team’. I moped for two weeks, then shotgunned the LA Times ads with resumes, and a month later, started at JPL. Thanks, HEDC!

    Often, the worst disasters like this are truly blessings. This jerk doesn’t deserve Bob, and now he’s free to find a good job. Or start his own startup and live his dreams.

  8. cats32

    cats32 said, almost 3 years ago

    ????? What? New subject since last comic…

  9. Yukoneric

    Yukoneric said, almost 3 years ago

    Sadam’s palace??

  10. Potrzebie

    Potrzebie said, almost 3 years ago

    Since the Cheney tax cuts will expire next year, millionaires won’t be able to afford 100 ft yachts and will have to settle for 99 ft yachts. But then again, they can cut more little people.

  11. TexTech

    TexTech said, almost 3 years ago

    I once worked for a huge company that went through a bankruptcy. Once out of bankruptcy, they hired about a dozen executive and senior vice-presidents while laying off about fifty or more people who actually do the real work. Sounds about par for the course.

  12. TheDOCTOR....

    TheDOCTOR.... said, almost 3 years ago

    DARKFORCEsaid, about 3 firings ago: Definitely a Republican boss; that kind of heartless cruelty is part and parcel of the Republican Mentality. So How do you explain the quarter million $$ donation to the Democratic Party and the OBAMA stickers on the boss’s Limo????

  13. jsprat

    jsprat said, almost 3 years ago

    Doc/Dorkeforce…NOOOOOO, this is a comic!!!

  14. Barbaratoo

    Barbaratoo said, almost 3 years ago

    Good depiction, Wiley. I’ve worked for a CEO and when I QUIT I wrote a letter pretty much saying that it was ironic that the people who were the frontline of the company had to work two jobs to make their rent/mortgage. Even worse was that some of them had to work two jobs SECRETLY because it was AGAINST company policy to have a second job while employed by this company. Meanwhile, this CEO had a huge lake house, a house in Florida and basically came into the office when he felt like it. When he was in, he pretty much sat in his office talking on the phone. Many of the conversations were of the, “If you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” variety. Don’t get me started on the “Board of Trustees.”

  15. knowman

    knowman said, almost 3 years ago

    Hate to break it to you folks who think it’s an issue of right or left - it isn’t. Corruption and the undue influence of money in politics and business isn’t driven by or limited by ideology. Greed, sadly, is a universal human trait.

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