a-job
Original: a-job on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Interviewer (an older woman with glasses, seated at a desk facing a job applicant): The best available data suggest job interviews are largely pointless, and even resumes tell us nothing about your ability to do your job well.
Panel 2:
Interviewer: Ironically, my job is to see if you can do your job, even though I am statistically unable to do my job.
Panel 3:
Applicant: So...
Interviewer: Sing my name as if there's a heroic opera about me to demonstrate team spirit or whatever.
Panel 4:
Interviewer (thinking, with a satisfied expression): That's genetics, my dear!!
A caption/label reads: 78 APPLICANTS
Applicant (singing operatically): CHERYYYL STOCKDAAALE!
Votey:
A wide-eyed, anxious-looking person says: Now add a plot and set dressing.
Interviewer (an older woman with glasses, seated at a desk facing a job applicant): The best available data suggest job interviews are largely pointless, and even resumes tell us nothing about your ability to do your job well.
Panel 2:
Interviewer: Ironically, my job is to see if you can do your job, even though I am statistically unable to do my job.
Panel 3:
Applicant: So...
Interviewer: Sing my name as if there's a heroic opera about me to demonstrate team spirit or whatever.
Panel 4:
Interviewer (thinking, with a satisfied expression): That's genetics, my dear!!
A caption/label reads: 78 APPLICANTS
Applicant (singing operatically): CHERYYYL STOCKDAAALE!
Votey:
A wide-eyed, anxious-looking person says: Now add a plot and set dressing.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic about a job interview. An older woman with glasses sits at a desk interviewing a younger applicant. She explains that the best available data suggest job interviews are pointless and resumes tell us nothing about job ability, then notes the irony that her job is to judge whether someone can do their job even though she is statistically unable to do her own. When the confused applicant starts to respond, she instructs him to sing her name as if it were from a heroic opera, to demonstrate team spirit. In the final panel a label reads '78 APPLICANTS' and the applicant belts out operatically 'CHERYYYL STOCKDAAALE!' while the interviewer thinks smugly 'That's genetics, my dear!!' Votey (aftercomic): a wide-eyed, frazzled-looking person flatly says 'Now add a plot and set dressing.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.