Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 08, 2012

Honest Wife, I try real hard!

Not even as an English teacher?!?

I see he’s gone to the Andy Capp School of Finding Employment.

Larry not specific. (Legaleagle48: good one!)

If only it were that easy.

Maybe he didn’t like the kind of beer you drink, Larry…

No no.He went to the UNemployment office… but he’s already unemployed.He needs to go to the JOBS office.Not HIS fault his wife steered him wrong.

Larry try real hard, Patty. Now need beer!

The advantages of showing up with a beer… tastes great, less filling out forms.

Larry need job:has no easy chair, has no remote, but does have beer !………………….now where is Zebra need munchies

Need to have had a job first within the past X number of months before he can apply for unemployment. Larry’s been unemployed for years now. But he, he can apply for welfare and get it without having to actually work for it anymore.

UB40

Who is the croc with the red hair?

Better luck next time, Larry.

If there is a next time.

LOL xxx

“Give me job, or I eat you.” That would’ve worked.

Laugh out loud, loved the beer in his hand the whole time.

He has the drink in the left hand, and in the right the rest of the time

Actually, considering Larry’s record, I thought he did pretty well. Last time he made a resume he wrote something like “me no gud at nuthing”. So “me great. give me job” is a step in the right direction

@ flagfly re: beer mug in different hand. #1: best to have prop in background for camera shot. #2: Larry is amphibidextrous.

Me go unemployment office one time 13 years ago. Dey give me money for month and a half. Den me find job troo connections me have.

And that guy wouldn’t give a nice croc like Larry a job? :@)

If he can drink from either hand, he has leadership potential, at least he is as good as most of my bosses.

He went in with his beer, and they tossed his Heineken right out. Tough Schlitz, Larry.

The croc with the red hair is Larry’s wife.

I love that he showed up at the unemployment office holding his beer can. Like the idiots that go to court wearing shorts, sandals and a tee shirt. Really. Guys charged with DUI wearing a Jim Beam tee shirt to court. Candidates for the Darwin Awards.

Guess Larry has to go catch his family a zebra now.

i have a family member that can’t understand why employers can his ass after he shows up drunk/hung-over and does just about nothing for his shift, other than smoking, drinking his bottle of water and watching everyone else work. one firing involved the boss finding him dead asleep in a closet. they’re out there, folks.

he should get a job AT the Unemployment Office.

You know what is ironic about this is at my work we never had a recession. We have been hiring non stop practically since 2008 ( a few months we take hiring breaks to let the new people learn before flooding more new people in ) I do a lot of interviews and if we make 10 for one day, half will not show up at all. No shows to interviews, turns out most those people don’t really want jobs they are just required to try to keep getting unemployment.

The law doesn’t say they have to show up to the interview just that they need to apply at so many places per week. Some of them look to be pretty promising canidates with good backgrounds so I would call them to see if it was an emergency or if they wanted to reschedule and they would tell me H*ll no I just want to keep getting unemployement but that once that gets close to running out they would consider it.

Since then if someone no shows we flag them as unhirable even if they try in the future when their unemployement runs out. It has been kind of nice to have people begging for a chance now that their unemployement ran out and I saw, sorry you had it and you blew it.

To anyone starting a new job: Think of your first month as an extension of the job interview.

His mum probably?

Croc with red hair, Larry’s wiff if me weberer whit.

Four more years, far more tears. Crocodile tears? No, real tears from someone four years unemployed. :’-(

Larry’s Wife.

Another problem is every place you go to apply says “Apply Online.” So what happens, Click top name, Shift key and click bottom name, delete. no messingh around actually looking at applications. Of course that doesn;t help the people looking for jobs.

Larry wrong: dey very helpful.

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Dey help Larry out.

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Same way he came in.

Larry couldn’t find a Job between Esther and Psalms!