Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for September 27, 2022

A guy in my book club is like that.

That would be a “Yes”.

I don’t think anybody wants long rambling oatmeal.

Had tons of meetings at Boeing, most of them at the worst time when trying to get work done, the oatmeal stories drove most of us to other job searching!

There is one of those on one of the projects I am working on. He represents the client so we can’t do much about it. But on those rare occasions when he is not in the meetings they take less than half as long and we get more done.

Suddenly the meeting got interesting! (and filling)

Oldbot. The Abe Simpson of the R.U. Sirius.

I’ve been in those meetings. I was the “get to the point so we can get out of here” person.

I remember my mother trying to get me to eat oatmeal. I hated it. It just didn’t compare to my usual of two eggs scrambled, three strips of bacon, grits and toast, buttered, of course. But, now, at 73, I love oatmeal when mixed with strawberry or grape jam.

If they asked for the “analogies” guy first, they’d never get to the others.

Sounds like someone familiar.

Alright meeting is in session

Brewster organizing anything?

Then there’s Grandpa Simpson. I found one where he did have an oatmeal spoon, but this was more appropriate.

https://youtu.be/yujF8AumiQo

Oh, Lord, yes we have a couple of people at work like that! Sometimes they get together for a tag team match!

OMG! I had a professor for Organic Chemistry in college who was “that guy”. Some 20% of his students were failing the class because he would suddenly veer off in the middle of a lecture to tell us some l-e-n-g-t-h-y story unrelated to the course material in every … single … lecture. Because he had tenure, the University added special “study trailers” staffed with additional T.A.s (Teaching Assistants) to bypass this educational bottleneck. I finally passed on my third try.

I guess they were right. A robot HAS taken my job.

(Pouting)

Hilarious strip and the comments are better.

Defund the robots!

Well now we finally know what Cliff’s job is supposed to be. With him in charge of engineering, it’s a miracle the R.U. Sirius is still in business. I did a little research and found out he got his job by hacking NASA’s computer and upgrading himself to an engineer.

Oh oh ooooooh!

I thought this week’s email was entitled Teddy Graham Memories.