Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 09, 2013

Surprise!

GOOD LUCK!

Today’s Luann…. Brought to you, by…. Miss Phelps? (Scratch on record effect)

Foot in mouth disease?

HA I just realized! Mrs. pHELPS and Bernice HALPER. Both of them are “helpers”

Oh, great for Bernice. MORE DRAMA!

Phelps Incompetent???

Kid, YOU got a lotta Nerve calling someone else Incompetent after YOUR Little “Road Trip From HELL”.

Didn’t both of them know they’d be meeting up with each other?

^It’s not necessarily always that you’d know… I had a supervisor that had moved on, and when I left the job, I didn’t expect to run across them, ever again. I was set to interview at a new job, but when I got there, the original interviewer couldn’t make it… guess who took their place? My old boss was there now, and going to fill in as interviewer at the last minute. -—And some places will have multiple interviewers and you could have a set time, but not a set interviewer… sort of a get ‘em in, get ’em out sort of deal. . So it could’ve been that she just so happened to get her, due to simultaneous interviews, and when she arrived, Mizz Phelps was the one available.

“BBRB (Bring Back Refresh Button)”

I think it will appear once we add enough comments. I’m surprised that there’s only 11 so far…..usually by now there’s 20-30…..

Miss Phelps is Ann Iffel’s sister…?!?!?!?!?

Where is that muted trombone when you need it?

I understand Bernice’s surprise but doesn’t Miss Phelps have Bernice’s application/resume with her name and other information in hand? Why is she surprised?

KG1 " Why is she surprised?"Well she is 100% incompetent!

What a revoltin’ development this turned out to be!

Just surprised at Bernice’s messy appearance? Could be.

Now we know what the universe was telling Bernie, you have to apologize.

Well, that particular boss seemed to just want to outshine everybody, and they resented anyone else who might be able to take the attention from them….

Did she not look at the roster of who was coming for the interview?^some commenters think it could be the “incompetence” factor, according to Bernice’s opinion. —But Miss Phelps could have been doing a favor for someone and filling in on short term notice, or if she knew she was going to be there, could have just been handed the list at the last minute from the Generalist or whoever was compiling it (In my workplace I’ve seen it) and didn’t notice Bernice’s name among them….

When I started teaching my former sixth grade teacher was also now working at the school to which I was assigned ! that wasn’t so easy. She knew me when I was 12.

Ms. Phelps has always been competent. I mean, look at how helpful, concerned, and calm she was when Delta fainted due to her Hodgkin’s lymphoma. But for as long as this strip has been around, she’s been portrayed as an uptight, out-of-date fuddy-duddy who doesn’t know anything about life, much less teens, and that’s due to her creator himself, Greg Evans. In one of his blogs, he said that he never saw a school counselor when he was a teen and didn’t appreciate what today’s experts tell teens about life. In short, he doesn’t think very much of school counselors and he shows it in the way he portrays Ms. Phelps, especially in the how he uses puns in her office (e.g., the “Count Slur” on her name plate). Even the way he draws her shows his contempt for counselors: the same, dull clothes she always wears, her tightly drawn mouth, and her lack of a bust or any other normal womanly shape (ever noticed that?). Of course, he’s also portraying her just as Bernice, Luann, Delta, and the other kids at Pitts H.S. see her. People of that age will always see Phelps (or most other adults) in pretty much that way—outdated and not understanding a thing about them or life.

I knew it when I read the first pannel. Good setup.

So what is Ms. Phelps doing there? Is she leaving Pittsville? Does Bernice have to keep a secret?

both of them drove 3 hours? for an interview? Jesssh…

With Bernice’s bad luck Miss Phelps most likely overheard her insulting remark outside the door and will probably disqualify her thinking that Bernice wants her job!

Oh, the irony, it burns so deliciously!

Why is her current school counselor holding interviews for a position three hours away?

Dun Dun Duuuuuuun!

…easy explanation for Ms Phelps’ surprise – she was not surprised to see Bernice, she was surprised to see Bernice’s CONDITION – her clothes are a wreck. She’s probably wondering why Bernice would show up for an interview dressed like a preppy car mechanic. As for interviewing 3 hours away, perhaps this is a place that Ms Phelps volunteers for on a regular basis. School councellors do have lives outside of school, you know. Pretty teen-agey of Bernice to assume that Phelps is incompetent – all teens think they know everything. Then they hit the real world – and the real world hits back…

Doh!

Ruh, roh!

Love it! If Bernice gets the internship, Ms. Phelps will look good for having placed a student. Plus, she probably knows Bernice’s parents.*If she does, by summer’s end, I bet they’ll be friends, or at least supporting each other.

Oh yeah, figured out that they looked in the button box and didn’t have any spares to use. Thus, the “Refresh” button is now serving as the “Load 15 more” button. (Or so I imagine would be the response of our parents.)

On the down side, if Bernice does get the internship and it’s at Pitts High, she’ll have access to lots of confidential info about her friends. Not good.

Miss Phelps: (Looking at Bernice) Did you say counsel or fix cars?

Nice last name Bernice.

Hope her voice didn’t carry through the door!

What qualifies Bernice to declare Ms. Phelps “100% incompetent”? It seems to me that Phelps has spent decades in the school system, getting annual performance reviews by her bosses – she’s not getting by on looks- and Bernice has got exactly squat for experience as a counselor, unless you count making catty remarks in Luann’s bedroom. So much for Bernice’s image as level headed and objective.

What the-?!

Whoopsie

Well, if Ms Phelps wasn’t 100% incompetent, she might have known Bernice was on the schedule.

Zzzzzzzz

RED ALERT! RED ALERT! RED ALERT!

Having served as an interviewer at several jobs, I can tell you that we are often not even given information on an applicant – we are given a list of questions to ask. The applications are reviewed by the HR department and a list of the ‘top 10’ identified. In order to avoid ‘prejudicing’ interviewers (who might be predisposed against someone due to a last name suggesting an ethnicity, for example), all we were given was the list of questions that were required to be asked of all applicants.

Looking forward to the outcome of this one.

Reminds me of “All Roads Lead To You” by Chicago, or “You Got Me Goin’ In Circles” by Friends of Distinction".

Nothing to be thankful for that we still get 2 more days of this crap. I would be happier if they completely switch off of this tomorrow into some short-term filler.

So much for telling her what inspired you.I knew of writers who started writing because they realized they could do better

OH NO!