Five Dollar Job

Friday, February 6, 2004

Isaac-
Well, just in case you missed checking the website on Wednesday, I'll go ahead and tell you that you didn't miss anything. I didn't update. If you combine some laziness with two tests on Thursday and another on Friday, that's not exactly a recipie for getting a lot of work done.

I have said before that it would be possible to train a monkey to do a $5 walmart job. That statement seems to be at odds with this comic. It isn't, it's just deep. A manager at walmart has one main task which he must fulfill. It isn't anything about sales, or productivity, or service. It's about resting.

The manager exists to keep the hourly employees from resting. It doesn't matter why you're resting. Taking a breather at the counter after accomplishing all the goals for the whole department is not tolerated, no matter how hard you just worked. Neither is resting while you're waiting for a customer to return. You must be on your feet at all times, always looking busy. Because walmart has appearances to keep up, and it must look like they only employ obsessive-compulsive workaholics at all times.

This leads to several results: I quit, and the employees tend to work extra slow. They don't really get much profit-sharing, and they don't get to rest after they finish something, so why finish anything? Just look busy all the time, don't actually do anything.

My beef is that I work fast, but I only get paid $6.25/hr or some crap. In order to do only $6.25 worth of work each hour, I obviously have to sit around a lot. I would start a union or something, but they'd just fire everyone who joined it.

Monday, February 2, 2004

Isaac-
I'm really Happy that JB has been sending me newsposts. Usually I know what's going on in a particular comic, but not always. And, yknow, this is way less work for me. Less work is always good. Eventually I hope to set up an automated system where JB can email newsposts to an address and it will get posted, with exactly zero work for me. In fact, I hope to get the site scripted to the point where JB can email a comic and newspost to particular address, and the site will be automatically updated. Man, that would be nice.

J to the B-
I drew this between plays. How about that boob? Best half-time show ever!

Also this weekend I wiped my ass with House of the Dead on VHS... no, seriously... I wiped my ass with it. It was that bad. There is a rap song in it, made especially for it, "House of the Dead" Rap artists will make a song for any reason.

Lost in Translation is Jap-tastic. I really liked it. Go see it.

My brother swears his dog said "fuck." (I bet he said truck)

Super Bowl Ends Excitingly. Donkey runs with Clydesdales. Janet Jackson's Boob.

If you didn't get it, Friday's comic was a homage to Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman. I think I might do that more often. My Brother, made a comparison to a Maxell ad on this comic.

If anybody that I know personally wants a T-shirt, tell me or suggest a design at least.