Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for October 21, 2014

However its in Id currency so a 10% raise only means a few extra pieces of TP in the outhouse.

Nothing like low standards.

What, no PROMOTION? (voice of experience)

@BungYour job performance is a joke. Good job.

You have to be ‘Coordinator of Fools’ to get the big bucks.

You thing Government is bad but never laugh about the FAIL UP and GOLDEN Parachute private industry.

I am SO NOT going anywhere NEAR a comment on this one: except – the artwork’s well done!

Do not care about private industry golden parachutes – they do not get our money under threat of prison. and cannot force me to buy their product. Only unproductive government deserves the scorn.

Could you imagine Thomas Frieden or Jamie Gorelick keeping a job in private enterprise after their results, or Lois Lerner staying out of jail if she headed a private company?

We have a guy at work who calls in absent because he’s drunk. We keep him around because his call-in messages are so humorous.

Maybe 20 years ago, but no more

Wouldn’t it be nice to barely work an still get to keep your job?Oh ya.. that’s Congress!

jbmlaw, you forgot to mention Eric (With)Holder. He should be in jail with Lois.

10% raise might just barely stay ahead of inflation, my usually 2% yearly doesn’t even come close to keeping up with 7% inflation, nor 7% healthcare premiums costs either…Its coming up on our annual pay cut time of the year anyways.

Except government workers in most states haven’t gotten a raise in years and still make less than 70% of the private sector.

Working for a king is NOT working for government. A king inherits a position. No one votes a king into office. Kings in history have acted in a dictatorial fashion, taking over someone’s land, or crop, or ship, or fish, or daughter, or wife, whenever they pleased. If the king feels like going to war and you are a peasant, surprise! You’re now a soldier. You’re old and disabled and don’t want to fight? Off to jail with you.-If the so-called ‘nobles’ set up a Parliament and a king had to work with them, this was still not truly ‘government’, but was more dictatorship, just by a group instead of one guy.-If you work for a king, he can not only dismiss you at will, he can chop your head off if he feels like it. The king is not only ‘above the law’, he IS the law.

The comments are funnier than the strip (but in the wrong way). No sector of government has seen 10% raises in the last two decades. As “standard”, probably never.

@JBMLAW Private industry is chock full of individuals who regularily under-perform and are rewarded more richly than the worst/best of politicians. Congress is nothing more than a training ground.

Well, this went nowhere fast…

That’s the way it works sometimes.When I was in radio school in the Army, the man that bottomed the class made E-4 fourteen months before the man that topped the class.(Both enlisted same day – right place, right time)