So Tiffany, a waitress who makes minimum wage plus tips (if any), wants to hire her friends / coworkers for half of twenty dollars an hour ($20 being the new $15) What a cheapwad especially since she’s getting rents without having to pay for anything. She could easily afford to pay them a fair wage from just the first month’s deposits.
And of course Greg has totally ignored all issues of licensing a business, insurance, liability coverage, how to security all that property and binding contracts for the storage.
Since this story will probably continue into next week, I wonder if Daddy Ferrel is going to surprise come home and wonder what all that junk is doing in the garage.
The turtle in the terrarium is probably dead by now! And Tom found the drums and vandalized them to look like they say “the Pogues” and he sold them on Ebay.
Tiffany is finally following in her father’s footsteps. Where do you think the mansion/storage facility came from? Yes I know I am ending with a preposition.
Now all she has to do is hire a truck and tell her Dad’s insurance company that he’ll need extra liability insurance in case anything is stolen or damaged.
In real life math comprehension, a fast food burger joint put out a 1/3rd lb burger. It failed because people thought 1/3 is smaller than 1/4!! Of course with the NEW new math, it may be!!
This strip has made me have to post something as an educator, albeit one who works in the sciences and not math!
I teach at a community college here in Florida: chemistry (general and organic with an occasional nursing chem with the associated labs). For the entry level lab courses I always give the students a short one page quiz on the first with simple math problems involving some multiplication, long division, as well as simple percentages and fractions. The exercise never has anything outrageous that would require a calculator or my Dad’s old Raytheon slide rule ;) . The students are supposed to have adequate math skills before they take any entry level chemistry course so I always put that to the test and the results have begun to amaze me.
The students usually grin, thinking the test is cake until I tell them they CAN’T use a calculator or electronic device. Some kids nail it but others flame big time, the ones that fail always give me an angry look like I pulled a dirty trick but I am trying to teach them an important lesson. The moral, learn to do math the old school way, know it by heart or at least figure it out on paper, never rely on something else to do what should be common sense.
Geez Les never take up your mom’s criminal profession; grifting. One thing a grifter is very good at is counting money, and you fail here hilariously. Nice to see Ox, but as usual he is kind of passive, although if necessary he can move quickly, mentally as well as physically, except here.
A math problem first thing in the morning? Honestly though, next week this could get really complicated and funny! She already has people bringing their stuff to the dorm instead of to the house, and she’s lining up moving men – who she will need TWICE because they will have to take everything back to the dorm in the fall. Maybe Tiff and Kip will have to partner up to handle Steffi’s mess?
Friends ask me to help move things all the time and they offer me… free pizza and beer. $11/12 an hour is very generous for helping a friend move stuff.
Why is it Tiff’s responsibility to move everyone things? She should have told them if they want her to store their things, they need to bring their stuff to her mansion.
what will papa Farrell think about this? yet, there are enough rooms and spaces in that house that she could start a storage business without Tom even knowing about it especially since he’s out of town much of the time.
I’m surprised that Les is so slow at rudimentary arithmetic. Puts one in mind of the story recently that the A&W’s new ⅓ lb hamburger wasn’t able to compete with the standard ¼ lb burger because the innumerate customer base reasoned that since 3 is less than 4, it must have been a smaller product.
Alas, and I understand that there are teeners and “young adults” who don’t know how to read a clock dial. . . . Everything is going to the demnition bow-wows, I say.
My first job pair 25 cents/ hour hauling stuff and watering plants in a gardening center. Long time ago but even then I chucked it in after a week. My second job three years later was as a Radio/Radar Tech for $2.18/hour. Co-workers were raising families on that income. It was a lesson in the importance of having marketable skills.
They really are determined to showcase the most unlikable characters in the strip. The nice ones never get too much screen time before fading into the background again.
lvlax almost 2 years ago
Les can’t really be that bad at math… can he?? lol Looks like Tiff is seriously getting into the Waremansion business idea.
Good to see Ox again. I’m sure he would do all the moving for her.. by himself.. for free, if Tiff went out with him. lol
So how long will it take til Les realizes he was outsmarted by Tiff?!?
Templo S.U.D. almost 2 years ago
what’s the matter, Ox? pay too cheap?
Rhetorical_Question almost 2 years ago
Outwitt outplay
AnyFace almost 2 years ago
She’s ‘Management’ now. ✨
Rhetorical_Question almost 2 years ago
11 dollars per hour?
BJShipley1 almost 2 years ago
Is Ox’s face getting smaller or is his head getting bigger? All I know is that something looks really off with him, especially in the second panel.
beb01 almost 2 years ago
So Tiffany, a waitress who makes minimum wage plus tips (if any), wants to hire her friends / coworkers for half of twenty dollars an hour ($20 being the new $15) What a cheapwad especially since she’s getting rents without having to pay for anything. She could easily afford to pay them a fair wage from just the first month’s deposits.
And of course Greg has totally ignored all issues of licensing a business, insurance, liability coverage, how to security all that property and binding contracts for the storage.
Since this story will probably continue into next week, I wonder if Daddy Ferrel is going to surprise come home and wonder what all that junk is doing in the garage.
outonalimb almost 2 years ago
Hey! What’s going on here? These people are all acting like characters in a comic strip.
linus82 almost 2 years ago
Les needs Bets to give him financial advice.
Binky Premium Member almost 2 years ago
…and so it begins…wonder where this will lead…
CynthiaLeigh almost 2 years ago
Don’t shake on it, Ox.
TampaFanatic1 almost 2 years ago
What is the minimum wage in CA? $15/hour? Here in FL $11 an hour gets a laugh, $15 might get interest. Anyhow, Les is a nimrod, a dull one at that!
capricorn9th almost 2 years ago
Les. You dummy. You’ve been outplayed.
Kymberleigh almost 2 years ago
Les doesn’t think these things through very well. Ox, on the other hand …
ct0760 almost 2 years ago
I would dump Stefs stuff on the curb and give a refund
ronaldspence almost 2 years ago
Ox knows he is getting cheated but Les thinks he is smarter than everyone so…
alasko almost 2 years ago
Math is not Les’s strong suit, he only wears a vest.
Brdshtt Premium Member almost 2 years ago
And dimwit Les settles for less.
Joe1962 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Les that more then you would make in tips. For 3 hours you be making $33.00
Caldonia almost 2 years ago
The turtle in the terrarium is probably dead by now! And Tom found the drums and vandalized them to look like they say “the Pogues” and he sold them on Ebay.
SHIVA almost 2 years ago
Well, the business classes Tiff enrolled in are paying off!!
Airman almost 2 years ago
Now, Stef charges two guys a lot more than that for her services, no truck involved.
Ruth Brown almost 2 years ago
Under the table money is more than taxed money.
sallymargret almost 2 years ago
That’s how Tiffany’s dad got started.
Mordock999 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
And THAT Ox, is one of the many reasons that you shouldn NEVER let Leslie here speak for you.
Rhetorical_Question almost 2 years ago
Leslie Knox did not graduate from Pitts High School?
C almost 2 years ago
Okay Slick
whahoppened almost 2 years ago
“Pencils; 2 for a nickel, 3 for a dime!”
gnmnrbl almost 2 years ago
That was REALLY quick of tiffany, the played the boys like a fiddle. She got les to accept less than what she originally offered.
Shirl Summ Premium Member almost 2 years ago
College is paying off for her.
gsawyer101 almost 2 years ago
Tiffany is finally following in her father’s footsteps. Where do you think the mansion/storage facility came from? Yes I know I am ending with a preposition.
Susan00100 almost 2 years ago
How the hell did Les ever finish school? Or did he??
kenhense almost 2 years ago
Tiffany sometimes seems on the verge of actually making money. It’s time for Tiff to take another step forward in the Luann Saga.
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Why does she need movers? She should make it ‘self storage’ so people move their own stuff.
sueb1863 almost 2 years ago
Now all she has to do is hire a truck and tell her Dad’s insurance company that he’ll need extra liability insurance in case anything is stolen or damaged.
Purple People Eater almost 2 years ago
Looks like Ox is better at math than Les.
Ellis97 almost 2 years ago
How much stuff are we talking, here?
cdward almost 2 years ago
If I were Ox, I ask for clarification — “Is that $66 total or $66 each?”
Chris almost 2 years ago
um, she does know how to count right… maybe that’s why she’s been flunking at college last year. :|
Aladar30 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Tiffany… I could understand fooling Les, but poor Ox!
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 2 years ago
In real life math comprehension, a fast food burger joint put out a 1/3rd lb burger. It failed because people thought 1/3 is smaller than 1/4!! Of course with the NEW new math, it may be!!
cdillon85 almost 2 years ago
I think Ox just noticed the math wouldn’t work.
ctolson almost 2 years ago
Ox may be slow, but he’s already figured this out at $11/hr each.
TampaFanatic1 almost 2 years ago
This strip has made me have to post something as an educator, albeit one who works in the sciences and not math!
I teach at a community college here in Florida: chemistry (general and organic with an occasional nursing chem with the associated labs). For the entry level lab courses I always give the students a short one page quiz on the first with simple math problems involving some multiplication, long division, as well as simple percentages and fractions. The exercise never has anything outrageous that would require a calculator or my Dad’s old Raytheon slide rule ;) . The students are supposed to have adequate math skills before they take any entry level chemistry course so I always put that to the test and the results have begun to amaze me.
The students usually grin, thinking the test is cake until I tell them they CAN’T use a calculator or electronic device. Some kids nail it but others flame big time, the ones that fail always give me an angry look like I pulled a dirty trick but I am trying to teach them an important lesson. The moral, learn to do math the old school way, know it by heart or at least figure it out on paper, never rely on something else to do what should be common sense.
Johnnyrico almost 2 years ago
I think I like Tiffany more and more all the time!
PaulAbbott2 almost 2 years ago
Look at the big brain of Tiff!
cabalonrye almost 2 years ago
Tiffany learned to count? Our little princess is growing.
A.Ficionada almost 2 years ago
And Ox catches on first today :)
locake almost 2 years ago
Hard to believe there is someone dumber than Tiffany about math. It looks like Ox was going to take the time to figure it out, but Les spoke too soon.
Same2Ubuddy almost 2 years ago
Pay them in bitcoin and then blame a computer glitch when they don’t get their money.
txmystic almost 2 years ago
Immediately I thought of Napoleon Dynamite:
“That’s like a dollar an hour!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv440W1xS44
j.mark.roberts almost 2 years ago
Looks like Ox might be better at math than Lesley.
Huckleberry Hiroshima almost 2 years ago
…doin’ math here… … I’ll get back to you… oh… lol..
rickmac1937 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Who said Tiff was stupid she just pulled a good one on these 2 dummies
luann1212 almost 2 years ago
Geez Les never take up your mom’s criminal profession; grifting. One thing a grifter is very good at is counting money, and you fail here hilariously. Nice to see Ox, but as usual he is kind of passive, although if necessary he can move quickly, mentally as well as physically, except here.
forusingyt almost 2 years ago
Clearly this strip was drawn DECADES ago. The movers I just paid (2 guys and a truck) were TWO HUNDRED an hour!!!
Need coffee almost 2 years ago
Tiff needs a pet malamute at the storage area in the mansion. She can call it a warewolf.
Tyge Premium Member almost 2 years ago
That’s my girl! 8^ )
Call me Ishmael almost 2 years ago
Math majors they ain’t.
Call me Ishmael almost 2 years ago
Ox will do all the work. Les will be completely “worth-Les”.
mindjob almost 2 years ago
Ah, the new math is perplexing
comic reader 22 almost 2 years ago
A math problem first thing in the morning? Honestly though, next week this could get really complicated and funny! She already has people bringing their stuff to the dorm instead of to the house, and she’s lining up moving men – who she will need TWICE because they will have to take everything back to the dorm in the fall. Maybe Tiff and Kip will have to partner up to handle Steffi’s mess?
ezekialrage777 almost 2 years ago
Friends ask me to help move things all the time and they offer me… free pizza and beer. $11/12 an hour is very generous for helping a friend move stuff.
Jane b Lee almost 2 years ago
smart woman!
jrpah Premium Member almost 2 years ago
two for a nickel, three for a dime, four for a quarter any old time.
davidlwashburn almost 2 years ago
She knows Les very well.
dbradway1 almost 2 years ago
Love it! Tiff is no fool.
WilliamVollmer almost 2 years ago
Appears Bett’s economics lessons have sunk in.
Ol' me almost 2 years ago
Tiff has more of her dad in her than we might have thought.
Asharah almost 2 years ago
Ox gets $12 Les gets $10
MuddyUSA Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Shrewd little vixen!
Chantillylace524 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Why is it Tiff’s responsibility to move everyone things? She should have told them if they want her to store their things, they need to bring their stuff to her mansion.
CynthiaLeigh almost 2 years ago
I hope Tiff wrote up a contract covering liability for damage, etc. Yeah, I doubt it, too.
overtherainbow almost 2 years ago
Tom might have something to say about liability for damages, at least.
Meg: All Seriousness Aside almost 2 years ago
Tiff, it’s like making a deal with Laurel and Hardy.
Call me Ishmael almost 2 years ago
Exploiting the ignorant – how America works since 1980.
Call me Ishmael almost 2 years ago
Dear Ox – set your own rate. You’re smarter than “Louse”.
forestkat2015 almost 2 years ago
I thought Tiff was struggling with the business part of school. Guess not. Score. And Les will probably take most of it and Ox will get zip.
RSH almost 2 years ago
what will papa Farrell think about this? yet, there are enough rooms and spaces in that house that she could start a storage business without Tom even knowing about it especially since he’s out of town much of the time.
cmxx almost 2 years ago
All the folks who’ve been thinking that Ox is dumb can now revise their thinking. Ditto the ones who thought Les wasn’t.
Andrew Bosch Premium Member almost 2 years ago
This is why these sorts of agreements should be written.
kauri44 almost 2 years ago
It may be that Tiffany will become a successful businesswoman but I would never want to work for or do business with her.
AndrewSihler almost 2 years ago
I’m surprised that Les is so slow at rudimentary arithmetic. Puts one in mind of the story recently that the A&W’s new ⅓ lb hamburger wasn’t able to compete with the standard ¼ lb burger because the innumerate customer base reasoned that since 3 is less than 4, it must have been a smaller product.
Alas, and I understand that there are teeners and “young adults” who don’t know how to read a clock dial. . . . Everything is going to the demnition bow-wows, I say.
ron almost 2 years ago
My first job pair 25 cents/ hour hauling stuff and watering plants in a gardening center. Long time ago but even then I chucked it in after a week. My second job three years later was as a Radio/Radar Tech for $2.18/hour. Co-workers were raising families on that income. It was a lesson in the importance of having marketable skills.
JPuzzleWhiz almost 2 years ago
“Let’s Make…Uh…*DEAL!*"
“A Moving Experience”
“Route $66”
“A Hire Authority”
“None The Worse For Ware”
The Quiet One almost 2 years ago
This business course is working out great for Tiff. Lee could benefit from the a class on business.
6foot6 almost 2 years ago
so, Is she paying them both $66 for the 3 hours? or is she paying them just the $66 which they split for the 3 hours? that makes a big difference.
Slatsmagee I almost 2 years ago
Oy Vey, such a deal
theoldidahofox almost 2 years ago
They went to a private Baptist school.
Jaymi Cee Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Poor Ox. Les is the most special kind of loud, conniving and wrong.
Arghhgarrr Premium Member almost 2 years ago
To really make them happy Tiffany will probably throw in a dollar an hour tip.
Otis Rufus Driftwood almost 2 years ago
Not good at math, are they?
tomcervo almost 2 years ago
Next: Tiffany asks Les if he has two tens for a five.
JonnyT almost 2 years ago
They really are determined to showcase the most unlikable characters in the strip. The nice ones never get too much screen time before fading into the background again.
rklynch almost 2 years ago
Drag0nr1der almost 2 years ago
Tiff really getting the hang of the business world
Rhetorical_Question almost 2 years ago
Oxford is a waiter and Leslie is a dishwasher?
Rhetorical_Question almost 2 years ago
Les needs to remember that Ox was a top defensive tackle who sack Kip Lee twice.
mfought almost 2 years ago
15 for Les and 7 for Ox
Sisyphos almost 2 years ago
Sly and quick, Tiffany! Oxford gets it, but is slow on the reply, while Les foolishly buys into the “generous” offer you’ve counter-proposed!
Wowie-zowie, eleven bucks an hour each!
Lizi almost 2 years ago
Not smart Tiff. “Self” storage? Customer brings their own stuff.
CoreyTaylor1 almost 2 years ago
Tiffany is no fool, but I thought Les wasn’t either.
Black76Manta almost 2 years ago
That lady really knows how to negotiate, she is a real business lady!
RossStanton1 almost 2 years ago
Les’ business acumen really paid off … for Tiffany!
198.23.5.11 almost 2 years ago
And as Lou Costello once proved—-7 goes into 28 thirteen times!!