Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 08, 2022

Example #664,303,261,442 of “No good deed goes unpunished.”

You need to beat on a large drum in front to set the beat for the oarsmen.

Do they even have a product they’re trying to make?

In a minute Imma need a sentimental / Man or Woman to pump me up — Join in, Mike!

Ooooold man riiiiver… That oooooold maaaaan riiiiiiver…

From what I’ve seen, Kim’s old BF hasn’t done a lick of constructive work—just played video games!!

Just how would he expect to meet a deadline??

This gang seems to think work is a foreign word.

If his ’employees want their jobs they need to follow a business plan.

So this is what gives liberals a bad name. Expecting results is not slave driving.

Does Kim have idea one about how business and the world works? She may be brilliant but she’s clueless.

Whoever comes up with better financing can call the tune.

“Man, this is going to cut into my Solitaire time! I quit!”

They have a better solution?

What does “Tote that bale” reference?

There used to be a warning flag buzzword phrase: “90% software completion milestone”. If your programmers have not detailed modular development, you have no real milestones and that “last 10%” will use 150% of your budget and another year. Software can always be “improved” until the money runs out. Then you get 10% “bells and whistles” that just sounded like a good idea and only 90% functionality for the intended purpose.

I am a programmer and I say programmers make poor administrators. Review progress early and often.

Well, I will remember that when you get paid next week, which you wouldn’t have done otherwise.

“Tote that bale!”

Or else it’s all you’re going to have to eat.

Not that there was much store to give away.

Sounds about right.

At least someone is thinking business…

So, is this where “Quiet Quitting” started?

Oh hell do I remember all the changes in my 33 year career, most of the moronic ones came in the latter years under women bosses. Not all of my women bosses were bad just some were bad at their job and got promoted somehow.

This is why you don’t go into business with friends or family.

Pay them piece rates for their work. No output, no pay. That’s the way I have worked most of my life.

Row well and live.

What did they expect him to do, win the lottery?

Mike, face it: you’ve been sold out by testosterone and hitched your wagon to a complete loser narcissist whose BF is likewise. Face it, man.

So they’d all rather the company go under? Big Shot Trent unemployed, Mike and Kim in the red, Alex (who shouldn’t be working anyway at NINE) possibly unable to attend what is probably a pricey school for gifted kids?

I thought it was hods that were toted, and barges were hauled (because they’re still in the water).

Garry Trudeau predicted quiet quitting.