Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 09, 2012

It must be the fault of the elves union.

OK, right out of the chute Alexikakos nails it. Good luck topping that guys……..Gotta give a shout out to my peep Wiley.. A unicycle. A unicycle… A freaking unicycle…? Man…you rule, dude..Nice snow on the roof in the last panel, though…

Do all Frenchmen sound like Jacques Cousteau?

Too, instead of though..

Never say “nothing can go wrong” or “things can’t get worse”.

So what else is new … ?

Pierre, the place is empty now, right? Move in. Still has heat til the end of the week, and you can use the woodwork for kindling after that. Win-win.

The R&D and the engineering dept. had to go to cut payroll.. They sold the same models year after year.The machinery was sold off because it wasn’’t used anymore.Maintainence crew was let go with the reduced machinery.The remaining machines were used untill they broke.Managment shuttered the factory due to bad business climate.

I guess China called in Santa’s debt.

I wondered why I saw so many elves standing on the corners holding signs saying, “Will work for food.”

Do the even have unions in China?

Workers in China belong to goverment controlled unions. They have been making all our toys for at least twenty years now.

OK… it’s Christas Eve, the sled’s loaded, the Naughty/Nice list is finalized, and the only thing left is the pre-flight inspection by the FAA. The inspector does the usual equipment checks—Donner’s landing gear, the navigational radar in Vixen’s antlers, Rudolph’s lights—and then climbs into the sleigh next to Santa for the flight check. The Jolly Old Elf looks over, points to the shotgun in the inspector’s lap, and asks, “What’s that for?”

“Well,” says the official, “I’m really not supposed to tell you this…

…but you’re going to lose an engine on takeoff.”

I’ve always suspected the elves were really just Chinese kids. Think about it.

It’s so bad that he’s outsourcing jobs from other countries.

And who was President in 2004 when a Chinese company bought IBM’s PC division?

and that’s why so many are laid off……

that explains a lot..,how does santa know to build an ipad? or, designer clothes? or, a mercedes benz s class? not to mention the slave labor he uses to make all those things that we want.

It’s pretty bad when even the elves get outsourced.

@Alexikakos………I heard that joke many many years ago…didn’t think it would last this long….I have a star on my tree.

i am NOT going to do a Bain Capital Joke here!

No point is right. Bain is not the only company sending jobs overseas. May not even be the worst. They were just over exposed in the recent election. Instead of bemoaning the jobs lost, we must find ways to get them back. Here in NC it was reported that the state was outsourcing tax processing to India. Check your own state.

A French Man on a unicycle at the north pole ?? That is a new one.

Ahhhhh … Tabarouette!

north pole operations transferred to china…with customer support in afghanistan…yep, it’s gonna be a rough christmas…

I just like reading Pierre of the North. Out loud. With the French accent.

Not surprising. Our Prime Minister just sold the tar sands (where gasoline comes from) to the Chinese. Now I guess we all have to find out where they want “their” pipeline to go! Can’t imagine they will still want to go south…….

Oh I forgot! Wiley, I’m impatiently waiting for my 2013 Non Sequitur desk calendar to come in! Loved all my previous ones and love laughing again at all the wonderful comics. Thank you!

Outsourcing. Drat!

you hit the nail on the head . good job

forgot It is a shame people do not get it. When they buy imports there goes our jobs.

A unicycle………………………………………

Love the polar bear….

Yep, get rid of the unions, de-regulate, unleash the corporations, pay chinese level wages and bring production back to the good old US of A . Then we can sell gazillions of dollars worth of useless crap to the rest of the world. Voila! All our fiscal problems solved. Right?

YES!!!!!! :)

He apparently has subsidiaries in Indonesia.

It is a known fact that over 95% of computers used /bought by Americans come from China….ergo kids and their fascination with computerized toys these days…makes sense that the whole elf based workforce would be laid off in favor of outsourcing to China…as for Santa…better get pedaling Pierre Santa already moved to Tahiti..and according to my sources someone in Tahiti reported a beached white whale and they’ve been trying to push Santa back into the ocean for a long time!

Actually Romney has a position on the board of Hilton Intl. to occupy his time now.

I knew it would happen sooner or later, but I thought it was India or Thailand.