Man #1: Big changes at work. My boss got promoted
Man #2: Not the incompetent moron who once plugged an overflowing toilet with a live squirrel?
Man #1: No, he died in a fire. This is the person who recommended he START that fire.

Man #2: So ANTI-SMOKEY has now been promoted to…
Man #1: Vice President of Global Operations. He gets LEARJET and a BUTLER.
Man #2: How can the company afford that?
Man #1: They fired my entire data-analysis team and replaced them with day laborers from outside home depot. It is now mathematically impossible to accomplish anything at work.

Man #2: And the old job that the new VP vacated…?
Man #1: Filled by an unpleasant janitor.
Man #1: That I once caught going through my desk looking for anything remotely SMOKABLE. He has SECRETS on EVERYBODY.

Man #2: …It sounds like it might be time to look for a new job.
Man #1: But i live so CLOSE

{{header: work hard at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: The janitor HATES me. Because we both know too much about each other.}}

#632; A Dramatic Turnover in Management transcribed by in

Man #2: …It sounds like it might be time to look for a new job.
Man #1: But i live so CLOSE

{{header: work hard at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: The janitor HATES me. Because we both know too much about each other.}}

#632; A Dramatic Turnover in Management transcribed by in

Man #2: So ANTI-SMOKEY has now been promoted to...
Man #1: Vice President of Global Operations. He gets LEARJET and a BUTLER.
Man #2: How can the company afford that?
Man #1: They fired my entire data-analysis team and replaced them with day laborers from outside home depot. It is now mathematically impossible to accomplish anything at work.

Man #2: And the old job that the new VP vacated...?
Man #1: Filled by an unpleasant janitor.
Man #1: That I once caught going through my desk looking for anything remotely SMOKABLE. He has SECRETS on EVERYBODY.

Man #2: ...It sounds like it might be time to look for a new job.
Man #1: But i live so CLOSE

{{header: work hard at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: The janitor HATES me. Because we both know too much about each other.}}

The janitor HATES me. Because we both know too much about each other.

#632; A Dramatic Turnover in Management

— June 22nd, 2010

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#632; A Dramatic Turnover in Management

— June 22nd, 2010

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