Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 02, 2024

Time to go back to the office.

“Rat, why don’t you run that up the flagpole and then sit on it?”

Time to put a fork in Rat.

Zoomer buzzwords…

So does goat live with them now? I’m not against it, it makes sense and it seems like they had more than two rooms. (Or this being a comic strip the house has as many rooms as they say it does unless it has a constant layout like For Better or Worse or Zits), it’s just the first development of any kind in the characters lives i’ve seen since i started reading the strip again.

This sounds just like Jen Psaki’s press conferences. Her successor is even less coherent.

I love Goat’s business attire.

Suspect that Rat is needed for a reality check in many work places.

Would you beliefs that Goat is secret agent and talking in code language with another agent? It ain’t make no sense what they is say.

Meh, jargon exists in every sphere, and to people outside that sphere it sounds like nonsense.

Goat, Interrupted!

Rat, as usual, is 100% correct.

Sounds like that meeting needs its attendees to be playing bullsh-t bingo. That always helped me tolerate all those meetings filled with corporate bafflegab.

Could’ve been worse. He could have pulled a Jeffrey Toobin. (No pun intended on the “pulled”.)

Gotta love Corporatespeak!

circle back. I’ve heard that stupidity before.

Breaker Breaker 10-4 Good Buddy

Then YOU go get a job, Rat!

Why are Rat and Pig at Goat’s house anyway?

Sounds like they run a valet parking service to me.

Keep your pointed little face out of my business, Rat!

I have a great ides. Let’s run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes

Rat, can’t you go one second without messing things up?

I am glad I am away from that flavor of the month jargon.

We’ve seen Rat and Pig in various jobs, but I don’t know if we’ve ever seen Goat at work. I wonder what his job is.

Probably not a landscaping company, which would just make him a scapegoat.

This actually reminds me of Pogo, where Walt Kelly would sometimes make fun of corporate lingo. (“Let me just throw this in the creek and watch the ripples rise.”) It’s like it hasn’t changed at all.

I prefer that my work calls not be interrupted either. Unfortunately, my cats don’t listen.

Bingo!

Sometime back in the seventies and 80s companies began renaming their departments. Back then the one I worked for changed the name of the Personnel department to Human Resources. As time went by they became more imaginative by renaming the Maintenance department Facilities Operations and then a little later the Graphics department became Visual Communications. What was so wrong with one word titles like Personnel, Maintenance and Graphics?

Would that I could bring myself to say that just once with the sound un-muted.

I don’t think the phrases Rat is talking about rise to the level of ‘jargon’. They are more like pieces of debris in word salad. Simply ways of saying, “Let’s pretend we know what we are talking about but wisely choose to not make any decisions.”

Shop talk.

Goat wants to put more than a pin in Rat and dump him somewhere else besides the parking lot.

I don’t see Rats black eye in the last panel.

He’s interviewing for White House Spokesperson.

I love the Goats tie : )

I did not understand this one at all , sorry : (

Sooooo, you’re going to stick a pin in something then drive it to a parking lot? Maybe I’m way too literal for jargon.

I love that Goat is wearing a tie!

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Well, yeah, of course he would. What were you expecting?

Goat should keep a bat handy

Their secret handshake would give them away, so they can leave to remove their over-tight undershorts.

Having seen a rat on the screen, Goat’s co-workers send over the exterminator

Let’s qualitize our paradigm so we don’t overinundate on datums!

As always, I’m a little disturbed when I find myself agreeing with Rat.

I’m surprised Rat isn’t all beaten and bruised!

Rat butts in on a goat. But I bet goat is a better butt-er

Just because you’re bad at holding down a job, Rat.