why-5
Original: why-5 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Interviewer (an older balding man in a suit, holding papers): So, why do you want to work at our company?
Panel 2
Applicant (a man with dark hair): Uh, same reason you do.
Panel 3
Interviewer: To be occupied every hour of every day so the grief doesn't swallow you?
Panel 4
Interviewer (leaning forward, distressed): Sheila! Sheila, you were so young!
Votey:
A character with tears welling in their wide eyes, slumped over: No vacation days.
Interviewer (an older balding man in a suit, holding papers): So, why do you want to work at our company?
Panel 2
Applicant (a man with dark hair): Uh, same reason you do.
Panel 3
Interviewer: To be occupied every hour of every day so the grief doesn't swallow you?
Panel 4
Interviewer (leaning forward, distressed): Sheila! Sheila, you were so young!
Votey:
A character with tears welling in their wide eyes, slumped over: No vacation days.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic set in a job interview. Panel 1: A balding interviewer in a suit, holding papers, asks the dark-haired applicant, "So, why do you want to work at our company?" Panel 2: Close-up of the applicant, looking slightly uneasy: "Uh, same reason you do." Panel 3: Close-up of the interviewer, eyes wide and blank: "To be occupied every hour of every day so the grief doesn't swallow you?" Panel 4: The interviewer leans forward, breaking down: "Sheila! Sheila, you were so young!" The joke is that the interviewer projects his own desperate, grief-avoidant motivation for working onto the candidate. Votey (aftercomic): A simply-drawn, teary-eyed character slumps in despair beneath a speech bubble reading "No vacation days."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.