Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 07, 2022

“lỗ địa ngục”

In a more recent time (I won’t name specifics but you’ll know what I’m referencing), “hell-hole” would have been “sh*t hole”.

Aaron McGruder’s “The Boondocks” on GoComics today (originally published 7/24/1999) referenced this story arc of Garry’s with the Nike factory.

I thought Kim’s cousin would ask what “Hi” was in Vietnamese.

Kim is catching on

Hmm—I have to wonder if Nike sued Garry Trudeau over this arc.

Y’know, this reminds me of “Oliver Twist”, where Dickens accurately described the parish workhouse and the conditions in which poor children lived. That foreman could be another “Mr. Bumble”.

I like the pens quantum tunnelling between pockets. When will the wavefunction collapse?

In US shoe factories the bosses were just as horrible.

Jordan was paid more for his “endorsements” than the combined wages of all foreign “employees” re Nike.

Number 237, Shift 2? Boy, her parents must’ve really hated her! :D

This place needs a UAW rep : )

Suddenly we have a real story line.

To get by you have to be independent. Be a clever woke cartoonist. Or a drug dealer. Or a CEO.

You don’t have to go to Southeast Asia to find one. I read yesterday that Amazon is not concerned that they now have too many warehouses workers. They won’t have to lay anyone off because they usually have a 100% annual turnover among warehouse workers !

Nike didn’t like it: https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19970606&slug=2543265

It means she earns in a year what you earn in a day, and lives in a cardboard hut

Notice that Kim doesn’t ask what “(simpleton)” means. Gratuitous insults aren’t in her guide’s favor. :-|

( ) = In the Original Vietnamese.

Endy-say Ike-Nay Oogie-Stay out of Oom-Ray.