Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 02, 2020

Ain’t it always the way. At least he’s “on the ladder to success”. (Just kidding).

She’s already “super sized”

He could say on his resume he was on the front line of the company’s sales force.

How key is this position if he can be replaced in 10 seconds?

There are quite a few excellent non-scholastic work situations from construction through mechanic to massage therapist and hair stylist (though they all have quite a bit of arcane knowledge that you’ll have to get somewhere.)

But consider the lad is among the decent folk, we peons if you will, while upstairs high up in the corporate life they’d stick a shiv in him to advance their sorry selves. Worse of all would be a Trump organization; your soul is required to work for them.

Its been awhile since I’ve been at that particular establishment, but I don’t think they “Supersize” anymore. They might still have the size, they just don’t call it that.

I think a better line might have been “You want fries with that?” seeing that is the universal joke, without targeting a specific organization.

JMFO

Yep, it’s a great job market out there.

Of the ten occupations expected to add the most jobs to the U.S. economy over the next decade, six are “low-skill” roles that pay less than $27,000 a year.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/november-jobs-report-analysis-wage-growth-unemployment.html

The typical advancement route for today’s “feel good” college majors.

The goal is to hire the fewest number of people possible and pay them as little as possible. I’m not sure why some people think giving more power to companies who have that as a goal will result in higher wages and more employment.

Four years of college under your belt to receive a B.A. sheepskin. Five years working experience under your belt before you can apply to take the exam for an electrician’s license.

Working for a fortune 500 company doesn’t necessarily mean you are any better off than working for Mom and Pop.

earthlink email domain. Wow! The 90s called, they’d like their email back.

Well, at least he’s GOT an education. So many in leadership positions these days don’t.

And we’ll pay off your student loans for FREE. (We’ll just need to increase your taxes by twice as much as you would ever have had to pay in loans.)

Today’s strip says all that needs to be said about corporate america……

I love the recruiter’s job title Career Sherpa!

I once dated a girl who worked as a receptionist for one of those snitzy-ritzy real estate firms, where everyone had to have a job title and a fancy business card. Her job title was Director of First Impressions.

This …

The reality is far removed from the cartoon. The median income for a new college grad is roughly $50,000. The median income for high school grades with almost any specialized training is also around $50,000. [BLS Jan 2020 Job Report] Wiley appears to think it is still 2010.

Or, if its Wendy’s, “Ya wanna biggie that?”

In the right markets, a trade like plumbing or electrical work pays more than being a teacher. Plus, they don’t have much student loan debt.

Yep, sherpas are experts at outfitting packs of pack mules and such.

Another one of the “great” jobs Dolt 45 brags about creating.

Some of these comments seem to assume that virtually anybody can be an electrician or a plumber, but that is not the case. It does take specific skills and aptitude for any job. One of the challenges that high school students have is discovering what real skills they have and what they are likely to enjoy doing. Maybe you can acquire the skills to be a half-way decent plumber, but if the overall job isn’t enjoyable or satisfying, then you will be spending a huge portion of your life being miserable.

The average age for those places is 50.

By calling him a “Key” employee, they can take out a Dead Peasant Insurance policy on his Life.

Payable to the Executive Bonus Fund.

From Snopes:

In April 2002, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Companies Profit on Workers’ Deaths Through ‘Dead Peasants’ Insurance” describing what was then a little-known practice wherein large companies purchased corporate-owned life insurance (or COLI) policies on low-level employees in order to garner tax breaks and profit from their deaths (even if those employees had long since ceased working for the companies that took out the policies). That article addressed the more colorful name by which the practice had become more widely known in subsequent years, “dead peasant insurance”, and how it grew to become common after regulatory changes in the 1980s:

If he is at McDonalds, he’ll have to have some brain power to go through three different trainings plus Hamburger University….