#839 – Heaped
Posted on August 28, 2009 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
Congratulations! You have been promoted to department manager! This means you get a brand new set of tasks and responsibilities to fill your days with. We know you will do great and can’t wait to see the amazing things you will accomplish. Also, we won’t be hiring anyone new to fill your old position so just go ahead and continue to do all that stuff as well. Thanks!
Tags: work
Aww… how lovely, did you get new responsibilities because of a few new syllables?
Of course, you get a ‘raise,’ but since you’re a manager, we don’t have to pay you for all the overtime you’re inevitably going to have to do. Have fun!
C’mon, it had to be worth it for the two story cubicle.
Think of all the Post-it Notes you could stick on a two story cubicle.
I wish I got a promotion.
This happened a lot in my last job….A lot.
By the time I left, I was doing about 4 peoples jobs, on the same salary I started on. Wondering why I left eh?
The work might suck but a double decker cubicle….very nifty. Does he have a ladder, a bunk bed or 2 swiss-army chairs?
… Well, if you weren’t doing much on your old job I can see why they’d tell you to do that too…
My last job was like that. I was basically two steps below manager, got promoted twice and never got a raise. I practically ran the place for minimum wage and like a dumbass I stuck with it for three years because I loved the job.
So he only has to do the work of two people? Nice. We downsized from 300 people to 60. I can’t even see the top of my cubicle. Strange that’s it’s that tall and somehow I’m still hitting the glass ceiling.
However, my first thought was “How nice, one for him, one for the eyebrows”
Yep, was Asst. Manager for a restaurant (big national chain) where the Managers job consisted solely of coming in once a week and making out the work schedule. Everything else (the entire manager’s job) was let to me. At half of the Manager’s salary, 80 hours week, no overtime pay…. Yeah, I left that job, and they actually wondered why.
Hey, he got a double-decker cubicle out of it. Looks like he’ll be strangling that computer more often for stress relief.
The way it worked with me is that I was made ACTING supervisor, handed the additional tasks and responsibilities, then the ACTING position (and pay) was rescinded.
I got to keep the added responsibilities, of course.
The real ‘raise’ is in your blood pressure, as they raise their expectations, and your workload…
Now y’all know why I’m content to be a trench-dweller.
OMG! I’m a department manager and that is exactly what my cubicle looks like.
Wow, this makes me appreciate my job more. I’m just a regular employee, and we get regular raises without increased responsibilities. …granted, those raises are small, and we’re only part time, and we can’t work after we graduate (gotta be students), but still!
I love how Biff’s eyebrows droop down at the sight of the double-decker cubicle…at least his left eyebrow is..I think…
Hey, at least he still *has* a job(s?). They could have outsourced it…
Maybe in the top half he could have an eyebrow grooming parlour and in the bottom have other people do his work, for free eyebrow trims.