My disdain for the services that Lee Hecht Harrison “provides” didn’t occur just overnight. As I mention in the comic, K’NEX paid for a month’s usage when they laid us off in 2015. I discuss that here, on 1/12/2015, 2/6/2015, 2/9/2015,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I draw these comics, sometimes the direction I come up with, how I plan to lay them out, pops into my head just before I start to pencil. In yesterday’s comic, the idea to put a huge tree in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, I’m angry in this comic. During the dire times of the pandemic last year when businesses, like fast food restaurants, had to cut back hours or shut down entirely, all I heard from the vocal right wing pundits was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t know how long I’ll be unemployed this time. When I was laid off in 2015 it took me until November of 2017 when I was hired full time again. Then, when I was let go in 2018 it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t know exactly what happened, that weekend in February of 2001, but my biggest problem with this company wasn’t specifically that they almost went out of business (after I moved with everything I owned from Kansas City to Philadelphia,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I guess I could go over all the stuff that happened to me at Hallmark, because I didn’t leave, (both good and bad), but that could lead to a lengthy post. I’ll just add this. In 1997 I got to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After I left Hasbro in 1989 I still had a lot of friends working there. But, with every acquisition of another toy company, (Kenner, Parker Brothers, Milton Bradley, Tonka, etc…) there were numbers of redundant employees, so Hasbro would just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because I’ve worked for large companies in the past and have at times, been on the hiring/interviewing end for those companies, I know from first hand experience that these “personality tests” are bullshit. IMO, anyone who has to stoop to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s difficult to put into words and pictures just how much of a shock and then how down I felt after the rug was pulled out from under my, and all the other graphic designers, feet last Thursday. Compiling tonight,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a bit unsettling, when you’re speaking with someone for the first time, trying to get to know them, that all they talk about is, well… suicide. Now, I can understand it, if she’d been working on this book, this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…