Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 03, 2008
December 02, 2008
December 04, 2008
Transcript:
Woman: Fired? I can't believe it... Duke: It's just a dead-end job, Jill - you'll find another. Voices: What's going? Jill's being fired! Oh, God, no! Duke: Great! See what you've started? Woman: I'm sorry... *sob!* It's just... Duke: C'mon, woman, get it together. It's not the end of the world. You'll be fine... Voice: You sent for me, sir? Woman: Who's that? Duke: Hal the security guard. He's going to take good care of you.
All Things Considered (NPR) yesterday (? maybe/prolly wrong?) had a story on a company that had 19-23 (the person lost count) rounds of layoffs. Now, that’s just bad: he said that near the end, he almost wanted to be laid off, just so the stress and extra work and all the rest would end…