Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 24, 2012

ANN EIFFEL.BIKINI.NAO!!

Ooh, crash and burn number two! So, how did Ann become a manager when she can’t even upsell to save her life?

“Yums”?? She said “Yums” to a customer? Gag! I’da gone to Subway too! And, uh, Maxiweenie??? This calls to mind a white napkin-like object that comes in light days, heavy days, and overnight.. I like the name brand uses. I was reading another comic where they used “Burger Queen” and “McDoodles”. Eh, just name it. We know you you are talking about!

Poor Ann. 1st rule of business: If you can’t be the best, hire the best. She’s just not a "people person’ and can’t assemble a “team” that would support her. Might as well go to law school

Look at the customer. She is immaculately dressed and has not a single hair out of place. She strikes me as being a business professional. And Ann is speaking to her in a manner better suited for someone who is pre-K. The customer has turned and is walking out the door after having her intelligence insulted. Not even Ann’s offer of a free meal will bring her back!

1 Ann + 1 potentially sexy customer = 0 TJ…..works for me.

Woof!

Order Up! One super-sized comeuppance with a side order of retribution – to go!

Love it. She’s COSTING them money. Time for Anne to get a straw so she can SUCK IT UP. Go back to the office, let TJ do the selling.

Orion

“yums?” Yikes! Go away, Ann. Slither back to your office, pronto.

Grand total of two bar Eiffel, of course.

We’ve known Ann for what, 10 years now? Between her mismanagement at Borderline Books to her inability to handle WeenieWorld duties otherwise well within the capability of the average 10th grader, one must seriously wonder what she IS able to do that keeps her gainfully employed.

In my own blessedly brief stint in fast food, it was clear to me that the manager was fully competent at every aspect of running the store, generally able to work multiple circles around any of the teenagers working for her. This gave me a terribly inaccurate understanding of the abilities of, and an undeserved respect for, the abilities of subsequent managers I had in later jobs.

It took me many years to realize that good management does not mean a phenomenal ability to complete every task in the organization, but rather the ability to motivate others to do the best job they can for the least amount of pay possible.

In TJ, Ann has a dream employee, but I suspect that Dr. Evanstien has no intention of giving her the managerial ability to keep him on board.

Hey Ann… quit while you are still the boss.

This SUCKS Big Time!

TJ has never had focus and I think Ann might be the project he sticks with the longest.

This arc is SO good! Those that can, do, those that can’t, manage. Memories …

Okay, OKAY, I GET it, Now.

Nice “Snow Job”, Greg Evans.

I mean, here YOU had Us all thinking that the NEW Character was that OX Guy You showed us a couple of weeks ago, when ACTUALLY the New Character is whoever this PATHETIC Creature that is now Masquerading as “Ann Eiffel.”

No, doubt, TJ has the REAL Ann Eiffel tied up in a meatlocker while he and this OBVIOUS FAKE are systematically DESTROYING the REAL Ann’s local Weenie World Franchise!

Okay, GOOD One Greg!

Nice GOOF!

Now how about having the REAL Ann escape so She can have THESE Two ARRESTED and HOPEFULLY BEATEN, Huh?

Okay, Greg?

Greg?

GREG?!!?

Welcome to the FAST and FURIOUS world of Fast Food Service …. ya WEENIE !!

She gonna have a BUNCH of ‘splainin’ to do when Corporate sees “HER” (individual) sales numbers are DOWN and “Give-a-ways” are UP !

She is like a politician. She can paste a fake smile up there but she can’t hide the contempt. Only the idiots fail to read it.

Hey! Ann Eiffel succeeds! —At downselling!The coldly academic potential customer was not about to put up with the smarmy attitude of Little Awful Annie trying to upsell her a “yums” Maxiweenie. Maybe TJ can keep this up long enough to force Ann to give in, quit WeenieWorld, and leave town in disgrace!

You realize if she’s stay, at the front their going to go broke.

What brought that on?

typical of management -she may be in charge of the show, but she doesn’t know how to actually do the work -or just isn’t very good at it.

what’s going on in frame 2?

TJ’s got the golden tongue. Ann’s got the brass.

good job Greg show how us guys are good sales people and the gals just fall flat on there face.

Now calling manager TJ!

Soon she will be taking out the trash.

this customer looks more like a Starbucks person . what is she doing in WEENIE WORLD?

This storyline and the advertising is losing me.

Comments here show that Greg Evans is doing well. Reminds me of the question whether the church was too hot or too cold. Pastor said, “I watched two older ladies sitting together – one was putting on her sweater and the other was taking hers off.”

So a balance of favorable and critical comments is expected.

Ann’s getting her teeth rattled here. She obviously got her job as a manager by dint of deception and intimidation, and she’s up against a skilled but recovering conman who can run circles around her. I love the setup here, because Eiffel is caught between a rock (her greed) and a hard place (being subservient to a smartass kid.) She’s close to a meltdown, and it will be interesting to see how this goes.

Weenieworld always cracks me up anyway. Der Wienerschnitzel (don’t get me started on the inappropriateness of that name – I lived in Austria for two years and I know what a Wiener Schnitzel is, and it ain’t no hot dog) and Corn Dog, where the poor girls had to wear those apocalyptically hideous uniforms, are two fast food outlets I’ve never once patronized. Hot dogs are for barbecues and baseball games. The whole restaurant is just a playground for bad jokes and cartoon drama, but it works well.

Do they have Miniweenies also?

If Annie is subjugated to cleaning the tables with TJ back on the register, wouldn’t it be neat to have Brad and Toni come into WW just at that moment?

Wonder how much Subway paid to be branded in this cartoon?

She sucks at this.

Salesmanship requires psychology. You have to read your customer and take cues from how they talk, act, dress, tone of voice. Everything. Ann is clueless.

I think Ann could be very good running a brothel. She would pre heat the customers prior to conducting business. Whoops, wrong cartoon strip. Sorry.

Of course, we love seeing Ann get her comeuppance after all the trouble she has caused our favorite characters. However, it does show Ann in a certain light: Weakness in the part of her life that appears most important to her, and which she has assumed was her strength. That makes her sympathetic. Gotta wonder where Greg is taking this.

Annie the Knife-All beginning to fray in reality.Wonder how she’ll make her Porsche payment when management gets her REAL figures.

‘Yums’? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!I’d head for Subway too…or a Starbucks.

Har,meltdown upGonna be hawt

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! Ann Eiffel is DOOMED!!!!!

See, this is how customers should have been reacting to TJ’s pushy, shady “sales” tactics. But this clearly is some bizarre revenge fantasy that Evans is writing, so TJ will continue to somehow succeed with behavior that would have gotten him fired many many times over, and Ann will continue to be debased for no good reason. Remember, Ann’s only ‘crime’ was 1) telling Brad not to sit in the booths and chat with his gf during his shift, and 2) asking his girlfriend to leave when she continued to be a constant distraction for Brad during his work hours. Oh, the horror. Clearly she deserves whatever she gets for daring to do her job. eyeroll

I never thought I’d see myself say this, but I already do.

Food freebies @ Weenie World get it while it last….

Even the customers can see through you, Ann.

I’m beginning to realize something. TJ has actually come up with a plan that appears to be working.

Ann can sell – but it’s not food that she makes me hungry for.

Whayle: great description of the Maxiweenie.Along with it being a completely idiotic thing for Ann to say to a customer, perhaps said customer is a lesbian & the thought of a weenie in any size does not & will never appeal to her.

Gotta be a set up!

There’s a technique to upselling. Try to find something they aren’t buying that would go with the meal and suggest it.

Obviously a Liberal Health Nut

I see it coming— upper management will dump Ann, and she will be replaced by TJ!

That can happen only once. Get over it and move on. Brad is not at WW anymore and Toni no longer cares about Ann’s treatment of Brad – just to clarify – because Brad ain’t there no more.

One-track mind as usual, I see. Sigh.

That’s because Ann is only successful at manipulating people she has power over: employees who can’t or won’t fight back. She’s a blatant bully, not a con artist like TJ, and bullying rarely pays off when it comes to dealing with customers. Remember, she wasn’t able to intimidate or coerce Toni, either

LOL ya she cant even give it away. If she said the meal is on her I would put on her—all over her head. That would make a marked improvement. If she complains about that she should be lucky thats all I did. :D

I guess Ann is going to be busing tables shortly. She is NOT dressed for that! Or she’ll hire a customer on the spot for a day job.

@Meg:or pay someone to eat there with her on the register.

@ Fat Tony:excuse my ignorance but what is NAO? I thought I was up on all the shorthand.

I agree with Skywatcher.

Well, of course you’re right. And I love hot dogs myself. I was more thinking about those two hideous fast food chains I mentioned, and the thought of eating somewhere like Weenieworld. If I’m going to eat a hot dog, I want to make it myself so I can get the kind I want, cook it how I will, and load it with kraut and other delectables as I choose.

This will be interesting to see how this is resolved.

I get it now. This entire story line was created just so Greg can draw his friends as customers.

@Vilyhem:If thats true I wanna send a pic of me into Gregg. I wanna be in the comic strip too. This way I can give Eyesore what she said; Salad and Iced Tea on her—All over her head.

If your weenie its to teeny, stock up now on maxiweenies..The girl is just digging that hole deeper and deeper.Go TJ!

@skywatcher2(Astronomer? Please tell the tale!) That would be hilarious as well as she appears totally outgunned here. Either way, I think TJ has her squirming right where he wants her.

Orion

TJ sure knows his customers…

If Ann isn’t on the verge of a breakdown/bustout on TJ, I don’t know where this is heading. This has to be KILLING her … I knew a guy with a similar ego, he thought he could get ANY woman. This one woman broke him off HARD, he couldn’t even get her to acknowledge his presence.!

As a “lifer” at WW, believe me, if she ordered a salad and an iced tea, she does NOT want a maxiweenie.

is it just me, or does ‘Ann Eiffel’ sound like ‘an eye-full’?