The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for July 19, 2024

Well, Brutus is standing. That’s a start.

Would Chief welcome any movement? Start dancing, Brutus.

Since it’s July, you need to be at least half way.

Cheer up, it can always get worse. Look on the sunny side of things, Chief

Hey, downward spiral is movement. Does that count?

Is motion absolutely required?

once had a supervisor who set a performance goal so far out in left field that I chose to ignore it entirely. After several reporting cycles, where this metric was never mentioned, it finally fell off the performance objectives and passed into oblivion. Be careful where you choose your battles though. This could have ended badly.

The intolerant meets the inert.

Brutus was a D.E.I. hire before it became fashionable.

Apparently even movement away from those goals set.

move it, Brutus…

Thorny did make progress! Problem is. it was backward progress.

okay… how about negative 2 percent on the loading bar… or him stepping to the right no, no left a bit more. is that progress enough for ya? :D

You tried Brutus .

Sometimes sideways is encouraging. As in not getting worse.

Chief looks and feels like a Sunny side EGG with Double Yolk – Busted.

Here are some actual quotes from employee evaluations 1) He men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity 2) Since my last report, he has hit rock bottom and has started to dig 3) When she opens her mouth, it’s only to change which foot was previously in there 4) He would be out of his depth in a parking puddle 5) She sets low standards and then constantly fails to achieve them 6) A room temperature IQ 7) Got a full 6 pack, but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it together 8) A gross ignoramus – 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus 9) One-celled organisms outscore him on IQ tests 10) He is so dense, light bends around him 11) If he were any more stupid, he’d have to be watered twice a week 12) If you stand close to him, you can hear the ocean.

11 is my favourite. Which is yours?

Are you at least trying, Brutus?

Speaking of setting goals to reach on track, when does the Paris Olympics ceremony begin? A week from now? Brutus can try to reach a bronze medal at least. Go for it, team [your country name HERE.]

Anything beyond showing up on time and staying awake is a stretch.

Try the Rocky theme Bru’. That’s a good motivator.

The Chief is one big A-HOLE…………..period!

The facial expressions in this one are hilarious! The Chief doesn’t set a very high bar for Brutus, does he? Something, ANYTHING!!!!!!!

Yesterday I was working while others were goofing off. Another coworker (who I don’t think is originally from the US) came in and the manager told her I had been busting my rearend and she asked if I was OK. Apparently, she didn’t understand that saying LOL

Well you’re just there for the comedic value anyway. Not that the boss does much laughing.

Not a resounding progress report by the Boss. However, he did set a very low bar for any future improvement…….

Uh-oh, they moved this again.

I started to say that in a few months I won’t have to come here, but if I cancel my newspaper subscription, the one I plan to subscribe to instead only does five a week, and they quit putting the extra days’ comics anywhere when two of those days ended up being online only.

I have not subscribed to a paper with this strip in many years, if ever, but I was seeing it at the library in that newspaper that is down to five a week.

Veebs has obviously never heard that good things come to those who wait.

I really enjoy this strip, but I always end up feeling sorry for Brutus. I wish that something would go right for him once in a while.