Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 10, 2014

Shouldn’t Goat be wearing a turned-up necktie?

They’re a good alternative to working.

wonder what happens if Rat meets Ratbert?

OH, OH ! please don’t tell rat about politics.

You can tell which commenters are business people…after all, this is covered in Management 101!

I am damn glad do not have to schedule a meeting with my son.

Ya! and you can never get a thought across, because he is still flapping his gums, and turns off his hearing.

Rat speaks Truth. I sat through countless meetings, and conducted a few myself. It’s all too true….

There are four types of people that make up a successful business; directors, doers, socializers and naysayers.Rat obviously wants to be a director, Goat is a doer, Pig is a socializer, and the commenters are they naysayers because what ever the strip is about the average comment would be that did not work.

Not being management in the school district where I spent 30 yrs, I wasn’t required to attend a lot of meetings. When I retired and took a job at a home building company, OMG- I was in meetings constantly. After two years, I left and thought NO MORE MEETINGS!!

To foul things up totally requires at least 3 meeting.

Years ago I worked for a company where one of the rules was “Meetings don’t count as work.” Very successful company for the 10 years I was there. Unfortunately, the boss died suddenly and the replacement destroyed it within a year.

Meeting, n. An event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.

I believe I have worked for Rat in the past.

@flyertom – EXCELLENTrecently i was put in charge of a nonprofit that has 1 meeting a month – this last month i realized that nobody had anything to say, so i adjourned the meeting and watched the bewildered faces as they looked at each other – we had cut our meeting time almost in half – very refreshing after having these meetings sometime go for a couple of hours and nobody saying anything worth listening to. course i hope to be replaced at their earliest convenience :)

Of course he doesn’t, Rat. He’s hopeless.

Geez.

xxx

Sounds like the jerk I work with.

10/10. If only it was 2010, then it would be 10/10/10.

There have been quite a bit of talking head strips lately.