I love these. Enjoy these just as much as Mr. True.
I do too. I really enjoy the sort of nostalgia-adjacent feeling I get from laughing at the same comics that people were laughing at 70 years ago (or 100+ for many of the Everett True comics).
Pshh, Mr. True would’ve turned this guy into a pretzel and fed him back into the machine.
Shouldn’t he be in the cage? Why should she have to be inconvenienced to protect herself from him?
You’re right of course, but I think the intention was to illustrate that she (like the machine) is a dangerous object that will hurt you if you get too close.
The subtle description of a woman as an object for society to build cages around is visible to me with my current cultural lens.
This is from middle last century.
I think my point of juxtaposing cultural norms is still applicable:
The average generation is about 33 years. If this is from the middle of the last century, then it is about 2-3 generations ago. I think that is enough for my cultural lens to be pretty radically different from the norms for great grandpa.
That makes sense - thanks
its also unrealistic because a real company would come up with a scheme to make her quit so they don’t have any financial obligation to her instead of doing anything about the gropist.
source: seen it twice including a unionized government position where several other staff made witness statements against the guy.
I got sexually assaulted at work a year or so ago. Found out that more than one person had been bothered by the guy that touched me, but only verbally, he hadn’t touched anyone else. Told the HR lady, she launched an “investigation” and determined that, no, I didn’t get sexually assaulted, even tho 3 other women had a complaint about this guy talking dirty, and they had the beginning of my assault on camera. I was told he and I wouldn’t have to work together anymore “because we couldn’t get along”. But we continued to be assigned to the same tasks, often just the 2 of us alone in a wing of the warehouse.
I quit about 6 months after it happened for other reasons, but mentioned it in my exit interview. I said “I got sexually assaulted and you didn’t do anything about it” and this sociopath hr lady looked me in the face and said “we did our due diligence, that never happened”.
This reminds me of something that happened yesterday. Though thankfully it was not any sort of assault, just a false accusation or miscommunication about a scheduling issue. It had gotten changed mid-way through the day and one of my tasks was swapped with another person’s. The other person suggested asking the upper management if we could swap back to the first way, and I said I was okay with it. She went to talk to upper management, told me the change was okay, and so we went with it.
Anyway, one of my managers (that’s been picking on me a lot lately) later came to talk to me, going off the assumption that I suggested the schedule change. I told her I didn’t, she told me the coworker said I did, she then continued her spiel about corrective behavior and being more flexible about the schedule. I was caught off guard by the whole thing and didn’t know what else to say.
Recently I had a meeting with upper management discussing my progress toward my next raise, and the only thing left to check off regards responding to direction with professional communication. I can’t trust that manager to see my response as anything but defensive, as she’s proven her distrust of me over the past couple weeks. So, I immediately messaged a manager who’s a step above the one who talked to me and explained the situation. I brought up the point for the raise, and stated that I wasn’t sure how to “respond professionally” to a false accusation. Thankfully, she knows I was okay with the schedule change, since I had discussed it with her shortly before the incident in question took place and she knows I was ready to roll with it either way.
Thank goodness the higher management at my workplace knows me well. The person I messaged ended up giving me props for professionalism by reaching out to her, and said she’d talk to the manager who gave me the dress down.
Hopefully the middle-manager’s bullshit won’t stop me from getting the raise I desperately need. Lately it seems every time she talks to me, it’s to tell me to do something differently. Meanwhile all the other managers compliment me on both how I work and how I communicate, so… something’s clearly not adding up here.
Sounds like a company we should all avoid
HR exists to protect the company from you, not vice versa
Holy shit that is amazing.
Her ‘safety cage’ is both for the protection of herself, and others, hahaha!
And like most corporate safety rules. Doesn’t actually solve the root of the problem.
Well I mean, that would require actual effort, and even worse… thinking, introspection.
And all of those things cut into profit margins.
Utlitamely, corpos don’t care about profit margins, they care about feeling important, special, and powerful.
Being wrong is less offensive to them than the idea that they could be wrong, that they aren’t already perfect.
Utlitamely, corpos don’t care about profit margins
Since when?
A corpo cares about their own clout more than they care about the company.
I’m liking these Jucika comics more and more!
If you have
- read Blindness by José Saramago
- or been an asshole
you know how much high heel kicks hurt
Same force over a smaller surface area = more ouch
