For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 02, 2022

Stocking shelves happens at night.

He has a point. You don’t bring family nor friends on a job interview.

You want to make a good impression? Wearing a t-shirt to an interview or even to check on your application is not the way to do it.

Without prior knowledge you can tell that these are brother and sister. In panel 4 they both styled their hair in the same way, to have a hair lock shaped like a rising cobra snake about to bite!

When I moved to Florida, it came as a pleasant surprise that Publix customers are allowed to wheel their carts to their cars in the parking lot, where young people would help them load their groceries into the car.

Of course, it’s an even more pleasant surprise to find out that I can now buy groceries on line, with those young people delivering them.

So I wore a T shirt.

Jeans and a tee shirt on a perspective employee, even in a casual call, never makes a good impression. (Neither does fussing with your sister, of course)

So much for sibling appreciation!

Yep. That T-shirt will impress the hell out of them.

In May of 2002, I went on my final job interview. I wore a shirt, tie and a jacket. I got the job. Of course, I was an old fogey of 57 years.

Memorize the layout,Liz.You’ll be there for your summers soon enough!!

I’ll just wait for the phone call

Nice zinger!

Says the young man with uncombed hair, white T-shirt, and jeans.

Well, if one had never seen this strip until today, they would still know it wasn’t from the current-day USA. The only way he wouldn’t be hired on the first visit, would be if….come to think of it don’t know what would prevent it.

Not anymore does stocking happen only at night. Last few times I’ve been, stocking was going on all day long. Apparently the trucks are arriving at random times, now, and must be unloaded immediately.

A good impression in jeans and a tee shirt???

Had a couple of strange job interviews. I didn’t even know I was going to apply for a job with the first one. I had attended “Happy Hour” at one of my favorite bars, and was bemoaning my severe money shortage. (Friend was paying for drinks for me that evening). I decided I had nothing to lose by trying, and asked the bartender if they had any job openings. He got the manager to talk to me. The manager’s dog was with him and growled at me the whole time, for unknown reasons! I thought the growling might be a bad sign, but the manager just asked, “Can you be here at 9:00 tonight?”, and gave me the barmaid job! I was wearing casual clothes, jeans and tank top, but they were clean and neat, and my hair and makeup were done.

Second example, I was applying at a different bar (I often worked 2 jobs). I was waiting up at the bar for the owner to come in to talk to me. This was also a spur-of-the-moment incident. I was again neat and clean, but I was wearing a “midriff” blouse, which left the area between the bottom hem of the blouse and the top of my jeans exposed. A rather inebriated gentleman came over and asked me what I would do if he kissed me on the “midriff” area. I told him I’d pour my beer on him. He sat back down. But a little while later, he returned and smacked a big kiss on my midriff! As promised, I poured my entire mug of beer on him! He just laughed and sat back down with his laughing friend. I figured that would end my chances of a job. But the bartender just poured me another mug of beer for free, and the owner hired me!

On the farm Michael was given a box of laxatives. He soon learned that they wanted him to “fertilize” all by himself.

Sorry Liz, you asked for it!