Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 30, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    Steve Forbes’s supporters can’t get self-righteous with profit motivated businessmen.

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Mike is being confronted with his own hypocrisy. I think he’s going to find it uncomfortable.

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    LesliePiper4  over 3 years ago

    It’s NOT hypocrisy to find yourself in a different society andhonestly attempting to ‘pass’.

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    Troglodyte  over 3 years ago

    Nice to see them take stock of the situation!

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    sueb1863  over 3 years ago

    Youthful ideals meets cold hard adult reality.

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    prrdh  over 3 years ago

    Mike’s one of them…as may well be a bunch of union pension funds…

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    A good thing to remember, that. Hippies became Yuppies. Love is free but life costs. The love may fade but bill collectors don’t forget.

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    rugeirn  over 3 years ago

    He’s got a responsibility all right but it’s to the stakeholders not just to the stockholders.

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    Flatworm  over 3 years ago

    Of course, the “need” for downsizing often relates to excessive executive compensation and dividend payouts to boost share prices.

    When the CEO earns enough to pay a thousand employees, can “downsizing” ever really be necessary?

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    reedkomicks Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Hahaha

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    comixbomix  over 3 years ago

    It’s also a part of his responsibility to create and design profitable work for the people he’s hired. CEO’s never forget their responsibility to investors, but often forget their responsibility to their workforce.

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    mistercatworks  over 3 years ago

    My roommate had a teenage son visiting. He told us “The Revolution is coming.”

    I laughed along with his father.

    “Why are you laughing?”

    His father said, “When I was your age I also thought The Revolution was coming.”

    “What happened?”

    His father and I looked at each other before I said, “We bought stock.”

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    ChessPirate  over 3 years ago

    Originally, I was going to post “When did ‘Up the Establishment!’ become ‘Up, the Establishment!’?”, but the only Google hits I got on “Up the Establishment” were for a German movie and something about smoking banana peels. I could have sworn that was an anti-Establishment saying in the sixties, meaning like “Up yours, Establishment!”, turning into “Hooray for the Establishment!”, amusingly by the addition of a simple comma. Does anyone else remember that saying being used back then?

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    ferddo  over 3 years ago

    If you gut your company with layoffs, that creates less product out the door… which creates less profits… which do not serve your stockholders well either…

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    JenSolo02  over 3 years ago

    We all have to grow up sometime…

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    Agapostemon  over 3 years ago

    I am a stockholder. One of my companies, Fastenal, rocketed up my admiration list when they responded to a tough period by deciding to hire more sales staff. On the flip side, I vote against most compensation proposals.

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    txmystic  over 3 years ago

    Mike’s the marketing lead…put him in charge of figuring out a sellable product that those 60 affected workers can build…

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    txmystic  over 3 years ago

    Also reminds me of an excellent line from the movie SLC Punk—“I didn’t sell out, son. I bought in

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  over 3 years ago

    The first priority in business is to make money.

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