For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 04, 2023

She won’t fit in there.

You don’t want to work someplace who would hire someone like this receptionist. Run, Elly.

Elly needs to look all the things she listed, but all the receptionist needs is good looks.

If that’s who she is replacing, there will be plenty of gum left for her under the middle desk drawer.

Looks like a Carol Burnett skit.

Who’s asking? Your replacement, that’s who!

I’m guessing, Your Replacement

Is that part of a hooker’s rehab??

I am so glad we had this time together….

This does not bode well…..

Sorry, everyone does not deserve a job and she looks Ike she should be asking, would you like that supersozed.

Gen Z.

If you don’t know, get up from your chair, find out and work too!

Maybe our heroine is being interviewed to replace the ‘vast intellect’ behind the desk, hmmm ???

Does Elly know what today is?

Bandit and Snowman can tell her.

10-4!

The reason the girl has this job is not because she can do this job.

There was the comic book Iron Man, where the famous industrialist Tony Stark hired a frumpy, middle-aged woman named Miss Arbogast instead of a bunch of attractive young women. His rationale, when a bad guy broke into Stark Industries and was being confronted by Iron Man, all the hot girls turned tail and ran, but Miss Arbogast kept her wits about her and kept the office running.

That secretary has just met her replacement

Judging by the waste basket, she’s a lousy typist

Yeah, well you have to look like you want the job, even if the folks already there don’t seem like they want the jobs they have. At least you used to. Maybe today all you have to do is arrive wearing clothes and your good to go.

Oh, dear…

she takes great shorthand

My wife had a position as an executive secretary for a museum director. They “redefined” her job and replaced her with essentially a bimbo at lower pay who was there for eye candy and not her secretarial skills. The real reason they “changed direction with her position” was she knew and was friendly with most of the board of directors from other groups she was a member of before she started working there and had a couple of them as references. BTW, the director left shortly after.

LOL… Maybe Mr. Curtley is interviewing for the Receptionist position ;-)

You need to look like a Bimbo Ellie, evidently.

Ellie’s next job doesn’t have anything to do with this place

And this was drawn in 1994! Imagine how slovenly she’d need to look for a cartoonist to make the same point today?

When you go on a job interview, you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you.

The means by which the author is showing the woman is slutty, I mean unprofessional:

1. Big hair

2. Big earrings

3. Boots (the sign of pure evil).

4. Short skirt.

5. Low cut top

6. (chomp, crack), i.e., chews gum.

7. Does not empty her waste basket.

None of that would be out-of-place in today’s workplace.

Unfortunately, this is all too common, specially these days.

Go home and change!!! (if your interviewer is a man!)

If this is the first representative for the company people will see that your interviewer has chosen, you probably don’t want to work there.

I know her she works in reception at my place

Maturity might not be important with that company….

I once called an advertising client and asked for my usual contact (let’s call him Ken Jones). The receptionist who answered the phone said, “Ken Jones ain’t in.”

So I find this strip pretty true to life ;)