Man, these four panels are now one of my favorites. The style, the story told and the comedic timing is perfectly displayed in just four squares. Aaron, you rock! :D
A company I once worked for asked us to work overtime and we put in a LOT of extra hours to get a understaffed project hauled into completion. The following month we noticed that our salary did not include any of the extra overtime and when we confronted management about it they replied that since they asked us and we had a choice to say yes or no they where not obliged to pay us any extra (which was technically correct but every time we had been asked to work overtime we also got paid extra, so going by the norm in the company we had no reason to believe otherwise). And so the whole team stopped working any overtime at all from that day and only did what our contract demaned of us within working hours. They couldn’t reprimand us because each of us contributed well within the SLA’s, but being understaffed it just was not enough of course. So after a while they offered to pay the overtime we had put in earlier and never try to pull something like that again if we crunched the last weekend before deadline to reach the goal. The following salary was very joyful to behold.
Life and death have been in love since beginning of time, life sends countless gifts to death and death keeps them forever.