The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for March 06, 2023

Nobody likes Mondays. And Tuesday, Wednesday….. when you have to go to work and meet a boss as Rancid is.

Rancid is not a good motivator of people.

So sorry, Brutus, but nothing can get you down. Well, everything tries to get you down, but you know what I mean. Ever onward has worked for you (and us) for a long time.

Wonder if the strip could keep going if Brutus got a better fitting job with a better boss.

Too bad you weren’t born independently wealthy.

With Brutus’s luck, something always goes wrong even on the days he is off from work.

Confidence? Brutus Thornapple?

I always looked forward to going to work. I guess it was all those years that I didn’t have dependable employment. Though the pay was lousy, the other rewards were high.

going to work isn’t the worst part…

getting there is

It’s a five o’clock world Brutus…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz4Sa8Wu9Y0

The workweek starts MT and ends with WTF.

Great comic for a Monday.

mine would be getting out of bed… :}

What’s the difference between the words vim and vigor? Nothing, they are a tautology. They mean the same thing. I should know that. I am very smart and intelligent.

This harkens back to the January 1 strip where Brutus, buoyed with optimism of a new year, falls on the ice and ends up a human pretzel. To be fair to Brutus, it’s not just Born Losers who have their joy sucked out at the toxic tar pit of a work environment created by the Rancid one!

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

- Henry David Thoreau

I was usually OK after a second coffee.

I’m retired now, but boy do I remember those awful days when I hated that drive to work & would sit in my car an extra few minutes before going in. I haven’t once missed that place or any of the people in it. I love retirement. I worked long & hard as a single parent. I earned my peace. Thank you God for my health & enjoyment of my senior years.

Brutus Thornapple. The Everyman that is all of us.

Brutus…it as hit all of us that way!

Something I gave up 1 year, 9 months and 1 day. Not that I’m counting.

Work can be depressing.

Sing with me, “I owe, I owe. It’s off to work I go”.

Yes, Brutus, H.D. Thoreau was accurate when he said: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

The best of us that really do love our jobs feel that way at times, especially on a Monday and even worse, the First day (usually a Monday) back from a vacation. You are not alone and are really in very good company my friend….

I know the feeling, Brutus. I’ve had a few jobs that were very hard to get up and go to, and they were real soul suckers.

I’ll thank you to not mention that 4-letter word around me.

He wakes up full of something, but if he stayed home, he would be with Gladys and maybe Mama all day. Work it is!

Brutus forgot his in-vocation.

i’m having difficulty associating vim, vigor, and confidence with brutus. at any time of the day…

To paraphrase a famous quote, “Going to work is a good walk spoiled.”