Thursday: un-dead rejected cartoon of the week
(image: carolita johnson)
Okay, this is one cartoon I’ll have to put a silver stake through! It’s had it’s third try this week. It just keeps coming back! It’s the un-dead rejected cartoon! (Possibly what Bob Mankoff has started thinking, though Zach, the assistant cartoon editor seems to notice these things even more).
I actually know nothing about jobs with benefits because I avoid them like the plague. But this cartoon is what I imagine it’s like negociating one. I dug this one out of the pile because I’ve been thinking about getting a “real job” lately, which of course is never gonna happen. I promised myself I’d go to South America and help dig irrigation ditches or teach literacy, rather than ever work for someone making exponentially more money and working exponentially less than me again. Just a matter of principle.
(There are, after all, people who deserve my sweat and tears more than my last boss did. And he was a nice guy! Put up with my dog pooping right in front of him—several times—on the office carpet, and everything!) (And yes, I believe my dog, who was always the epitome of intestinal self-control, pooped thusly on purpose to make a statement about my employement benefits.)
And speaking of bosses, I was shocked to find out that The Who’s “Don’t get fooled again” is apparently the number one conservative rock anthem! How can that be? That cynical last line (“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!”) seemed to be a warning never to be content to be employed again! I never understood it to be a comfort to conservatives. How odd! But check out the top 50 conservative rock songs according to this article in the National Review and you’ll see it’s true. (Though The Stones’ “You can’t always get what you want” was no surprise).
