The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 28, 2025

And thar pay raise is gone bye bye for 2025.

Probably a wise move, Sorry Brutus!

Closed a bank acct I’ve had since 1962 today. Since 1993 it was only used for my tenants to pay their rent. Sold the house in upstate NY last week.

I’ve always felt that neckties were a symbolic leash when companies required their employees to wear them. They’re the human equivalent of a dog’s choke chain.

Brutus looks like he’s ready to go walkies.

Brutus! Sit!

Now take your commission.

Pretty clever with the word play there isn’t he Brutus ?

fire the guy

does that include personal stuff, like at home? :\

DANG! Rancid must be angry!

I like that as Chief starts to close in on his sinister message his whole facade changes. That got dark really quick. Maybe now would be a good time to ask for a raise…, “I would be more motivated to do a better job if I got a raise, Chief.” At least it will get a laugh out of the boss.

The Chief must see some value in Brutus to keep him around.

Must have been a really bad screw up. However, it IS the boss’s company and he has the right to run it any way he wishes. However, l doubt that there will be any long term effect…..

How long before Brutus gets replaced by AI? Though the boss would call it Artificial Ineptitude.

Nothing worse than a micro manager

Bru: I understand, sir. By the way, are you gonna keep that bag of money?

Well at least, in last panel the chief is smiling………

Maybe this will keep you from barking up the wrong tree.

It is similar to what’s happening at the white man’s house, so many massive executive disorders by his demented majesty.

Rancid is quite the punster isn’t he? I’m sure that little joke made it easier for Brutus to swallow. Not.

Based on Brutus’ face in the last panel, my guess is that he plans to change nothing at all. He can’t do the hustle.

Reminds me of a place where I used to work. Apparently a salesman got caught making promises to a client that he wasn’t authorized to make, and it cost our company. So the President issued an edict: all e-mails would contain a disclaimer at the end that essentially said that the contents of the e-mail were solely the opinions of the sender – and that the company in no way backed those opinions. Even had IT set up the company e-mail system to automatically add the disclaimer to all out-going e-mails.

At the time our normal way of interfacing with clients was via e-mail, including giving them quotes and bids. Soon we were getting unhappy client replies asking if our quotes and bids were real… I know we lost business over it…

Now go to hr and get measured for your collar and name tag.

Choke caller.

i suspect that all brutus’s sales calls were cold calls…