I do sometimes wonder if some cartoonists actually think that’s the way evolution works. Then I think “Nahhh, NObody could be that ignorant, so this is just a useful trope that’s a short cut to the punch line.” But then I do start to wonder.
So: How many of the ’toonists at GoComics think evolution can happen to an individual critter?
This is one of the dumbest questions I’m asked on an interview: “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”
I go on to tell the interviewer, that my immediate concern is to master the job and make the team connections to be successful FOR the company.
“As for the long term plan, asking me where I will be in five years is like asking a football coach, ‘What play will you call five downs from now?’ It depends on where the team is and what the situation is five downs from now.
I don’t know where the company will be five years from now. Hopefully, the problem you are hiring me to solve today will be old history by then.
I’ll be ready to do whatever you need me to do five years from now.
5 million years? Moot point. How about surviving as a country in the next 9 months? And how untimely is it that the time until the election is about the same as the length of a pregnancy. Heaven only knows what this birth will bring. Of course, there is one word that might fit, but it’s already been suggested in lots of comments.
I used to hate that question. I always wanted to say my true thoughts, that I’d be enjoying my lottery winnings and not still working at some inane job.
Cheapskate0 about 4 years ago
I’ve had job interviews like this.
Charliegirl Premium Member about 4 years ago
Where? In the White House apparently.
Superfrog about 4 years ago
He’s fishing.
Enter.Name.Here about 4 years ago
“Buried as an ancient fossil embedded in shale. You?”
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr about 4 years ago
Wearing a ratty hair piece and causing bigly division in the most power nation on the planet.
Concretionist about 4 years ago
I do sometimes wonder if some cartoonists actually think that’s the way evolution works. Then I think “Nahhh, NObody could be that ignorant, so this is just a useful trope that’s a short cut to the punch line.” But then I do start to wonder.
So: How many of the ’toonists at GoComics think evolution can happen to an individual critter?
Dtroutma about 4 years ago
Pretty evolved furniture.
Kaputnik about 4 years ago
As an ancestor.
Lyons Group, Inc. about 4 years ago
Evolving Fish: “Searching for other worlds that can support life when this world becomes unfit to live”.
Nachikethass about 4 years ago
Eating you!
eastern.woods.metal about 4 years ago
In some ones gas tank
pcolli about 4 years ago
“Extinct”.
The Old Wolf about 4 years ago
“Eating you, broiled with olive oil and lemon juice.”
Cpeckbourlioux about 4 years ago
Aristotle? Your name’s Harry. Johannes? Your name’s John.(Ellis Island)
Kind&Kinder about 4 years ago
Fighting to survive.
dot-the-I about 4 years ago
Dismissed in the interviewer’s mind as an obvious tail-dragger even before posing the standard questioning.
jessie d. Premium Member about 4 years ago
From the neck up pardoning a lot of fellow crooks in 2020.
dflak about 4 years ago
This is one of the dumbest questions I’m asked on an interview: “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”
I go on to tell the interviewer, that my immediate concern is to master the job and make the team connections to be successful FOR the company.
“As for the long term plan, asking me where I will be in five years is like asking a football coach, ‘What play will you call five downs from now?’ It depends on where the team is and what the situation is five downs from now.
I don’t know where the company will be five years from now. Hopefully, the problem you are hiring me to solve today will be old history by then.
I’ll be ready to do whatever you need me to do five years from now.
Ask me this question again in four years."
sandpiper about 4 years ago
5 million years? Moot point. How about surviving as a country in the next 9 months? And how untimely is it that the time until the election is about the same as the length of a pregnancy. Heaven only knows what this birth will bring. Of course, there is one word that might fit, but it’s already been suggested in lots of comments.
Brain Pudding about 4 years ago
Uh, as a fossil in The middle of the land that will be uncovered during the natural subsidence of this particular ocean.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 4 years ago
I’m thinking fish didn’t foresee that in 5 million years his essence would be powering a Chevy in a NASCAR venue.
wirepunchr about 4 years ago
Cut into sticks, breaded and served with a side of tartar sauce.
SusieB about 4 years ago
I used to hate that question. I always wanted to say my true thoughts, that I’d be enjoying my lottery winnings and not still working at some inane job.
Paschendale about 4 years ago
Dead.
Prey about 4 years ago
Under the newly risen Iberian rocky mountains?
thelordthygod666 about 4 years ago
Mankind is a failed rung on the evolutionary ladder. It’s time to give another species their chance.
DCBakerEsq about 4 years ago
Minor corporate sycophant.
marilynnbyerly about 4 years ago
A marine dinosaur was discovered recently that had evolved to be able to go onto land, then it returned to the ocean. Smart dinosaur.
COL Crash about 4 years ago
As a fossil if I’m lucky.
giggles242 about 4 years ago
made me laugh :)
yimhere about 4 years ago
Going bankrupt 6 times, then doing the same to whatever country elects me king!
WGillete about 4 years ago
Working for Bumble Bee Tuna.
michaeljwolff about 4 years ago
“Where do you see yourself in five million years?”
“Working for scale.”
keenanthelibrarian about 4 years ago
About as stupid a question as the perennial “Where do you see yourself in five years” during an employment interview.
Bicycle Dude about 4 years ago
Voting a S.O.B. out of office.
bakana about 4 years ago
Finally getting to visit the Vorlon Homeworld.
Happy, happy, happy!!! about 4 years ago
Ossified.
dbwindhorst about 4 years ago
“Getting in touch with my inner fish.”
— Neil Shubinbakana about 4 years ago
Getting Revenge on those darned Dolphins for eating Great, G,G,G,G,G,G,G,G,Great Granddad.
gammaguy about 4 years ago
Looks like one of those evolving-door situations.