The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for March 11, 2024

It’s an April fool ahead of time.

She’s as mean as the boss. Look at that face.

Note the evil smile of the secretary.

Poor Brutus . . . I hope Rancid will have a change of heart and want him to come back.

I bet Cozy conferences can get rowdy

He gets the return ticket if he meets his quotas

Well, someone made “Mother” Gargoyle a happy person.

Guess the cheapskate expects you to hitchhike home.

He should be happy for the permanent get away from Ma Gargoyle.

It’s a prank

Yeah, but the return is not a ticket to paradise.

He’s got a ticket to ride, and V don’t care.

last row in coach…

Veeblefester has his own version of cost sharing by making our hero pay for his own return fight.

The boomer rang twice.

I thought it was vacation!

Pack a pair of hiking boots. It’s a loooong walk back.

San Diego beats Cleveland weather wise.

I said that last week!

Either the “boss” wants him to get lost or pay his own ticket back home. ☹️

Congratulations Brutus! You’ve been named the manager of the West Coast division of the Veeblefester Tea Cozy Company. As if! Boy she has a mug you love to loathe (or smack), doesn’t she?

maybe he’s hoping he’d make big there for him… just hope the plane doesn’t crush the building before it gets to where it needs to land. :}

Can this be true?

Brutus it’s a prolonged conference. Mr. V indeed. Love her smug look panel 3. Says it all.

I think the boss is trying to tell you something.

Makes sense, companies pay you “to go”.. to events. The return is on your own dime.

This must be Bossman’s revenge. Brutus left early for his vacation because he’d not have all those coffee breaks to do. So, Bossman figures if Brutus really wants his job, he’ll find a way back home. Although, with plane travel being what it is, today, Bossy is coming out ahead.

So what else is new Brutus ?

One way ticket to S.D.? Sounds like a good deal to me.

Just say “Thanks and good bye!”  I’d much rather be stuck in San Diego than most other places, although stuck in the San Diego of fifty years ago would be even better!

Rancid’s cost sharing…..

this is your chance Brutus, no more Mr. V, no more mother Gargle!

Probably had a special airline deal on one way flights and he just bought two one way tickets, which the second he will give at an appropriate time. Though Teddy Roosevelt when he could not get the money from Congress to finance the sending of the US Navy fleet around the world on a “diplomatic” show of fouce, paid from his own private funds to pay for the fleet to go halfway around the world. And if Congress wanted the fleet back, they would have to pay for it and they did. The Boss could be a Historian but is definitely not a good boss if that’s what he did to Brutus…..

Uh, one way to San Diego and Mr. V is paying for it??? Can someone sign me up?

How about that, he can take a hint.

A little sales motivation!

Well, Veeblefester had a good plan, he just didn’t think Brutus would check the ticket until he got to San Diego.

Brutus can just stay in San Diego and wait for the return ticket. Bossman really will want him back. Some day.