FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for January 31, 2019

good luck, Roger, finding the power switch or power plug

I worked for Boeing for 37 1/2 years. When I started there every thing was done on paper. When I retired everything was done on the computer. The slow transition was incredible when I think back on it.

Don’t fret, Mr. Computer. When you become small and flat he won’t be able to take his eyes off of you.

Job. Steve Jobs.

If a bus station is where the bus stops, and a train station is where the train stops, what is a workstation?

My poor boss is a sucker for “click bait”. He’ll be working, and suddenly he’ll say, “Did you hear this about Kate Beckinsale?” Then he’ll say, “Why am I even looking at this?” (I do have to laugh at panel 2, as that is actually our jobs!)

I have seen cases where everyone works for IT. You wind up like a stable boy, shoveling data fodder into the machine and what do you get back?

I had a CEO who loved “data.” He would hold briefings where we would go over several dozen spreadsheets with literally tens of thousands of bits of information.

Data and information are two different things.

Seriously, this came before the iFruit computer, and it’s totally advanced!

If it weren’t for the pay, the benefits, and the free coffee, I’d quit.

what year was this comic made? I mean, having to DOWNLOAD a comic seems like such an alien concept today…

I managed the DOS network at our office. I added a couple of games- solitaire, golf solitaire, Links386. One day my boss asked me to set a hot key to minimize his computer screen in a hurry. Then one day he just told me to take the games off his computer.

And I thought HAL 9000 was clingy!