CSotD: 40 percent of readers won’t get this gag
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Never mind Dilbert. Sally Forth knows how the business world functions today and writer Francesco Marciuliano has managed to make the characters in the strip human enough that they behave believably.
For the past who-knows-how-long, Sally has been trying to persuade the slackers in her department that the company is facing hard decisions, all their jobs are on the line and that they really, really should become productive. In return, they snipe at each other over personal issues and quibble over the donuts.
Today's strip does what a good strip ought to: It works by itself and provides the one-time reader with a chuckle, but it also rewards Faithful Readers with a more sustained laugh over How Things Really Work: Having done absolutely nothing to preserve their jobs despite months of Sally's pleading, everybody goes into a full and unproductive panic when the moment arrives.
And by the way: Ces gets a lot of credit for resuscitating this strip with his writing, but artist Craig McIntosh deserves props for his work, too. His disregard for panel boundaries often adds to the surreal flow of conversations in the strip, but, today, it is particularly effective in highlighting the chaos of the moment.
(Oh, and I'm basing that headline on last night's Senate vote. Having just gone through eight months of unemployment myself, I'm a lot more sympathetic to people still mired in this situation than forty percent of the Senate, and, since I believe in democracy, I have to assume that forty percent of the citizenry also can't understand concepts like "mortgage payments" and "feeding the kids" or the joy of competing for jobs in a world that simply doesn't have'em. Obviously, I'm looking forward to more on the topic from Sally Forth.)
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