When A Raise Is A Wedgie

These cartoons came from a variety of places. There have been too many times management didn't give out raises because budgets were just too tight. We grumbled a bit but didn't say too much, except for the times they got bonuses anyway. That stunk.

But one time we got a nice letter saying how bad things were and how sorry management felt that we weren't getting raises. I made a note but couldn't figure out how to put it into a cartoon. Then I visited a small town where they had a big rodeo. I was listening to some of the cowboys who ran the rodeo talk about it the next morning. One of the bull-riders had been hurt when he fell off, but had drug himself to the side and sat there for quite a while before anyone noticed him. They said they felt really bad, and then someone popped up: "but not as bad as the cowboy."

I connected it with how management felt about our raises being cancelled and out popped this comic strip.

The next toon is with Slider getting his raise. It was pitifully small. In reality, most people got a "token" raise. We all felt rather forked over by management. Then when the executives got their bonuses we felt even worse. When doing the cartoon I went from "raise" to "raisin'", which is a kind of wedgie. Thats how we felt.

AAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

When Your Raise Is A Wedgie

Open Mouth - Insert Foot - Don't Bite!

Well, everyone knows someone who puts their foot in their mouth occasionally. None of us do it ourselves (of course!)

Actually, it was my dear sister-in-law describing a certain person she knows who makes a habit of contradicting himself. On this occasion he did it worse than usual and came away with a ton of verguenza (embarassment). She said he bit his foot clear off.

It hurts!

Ribet.

Check it out at Foot In Mouth Cartoon

Rotten Cookie

I suppose I am the only one who ever has this problem. My computer hates me, and it does this...

I was logging in to a financial site and couldn't get in. I had been in a few days earlier and knew my passwords were right, so I called the company. They told me to clean out my cookies and internet history and it would probably work. There had been a change to their site. They said my computer had saved the cookie from the last log-in and wouldn't let the new site up.

I deleted my cookies and history and everything worked.

So, I decided I'd had a rotten cookie!

A RIBET for that one...

Check it out at Rotten Cookie Computer humor
let the new site up.