like-family
Original: like-family on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man stands on a stage in front of an audience, gesturing as he speaks.
Man: "I DON'T KNOW ABOUT OTHER COMPANIES, BUT HERE, WE'RE NOT EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS. WE ARE LIKE FAMILY!"
Panel 2:
Caption at top: EARLIER...
A bald man with glasses speaks sternly to a young boy.
Bald man: "BILLY, YOU'RE FIRED."
Boy: "BUT DAD-"
Bald man: "EMPTY YOUR BUNK BED. I WANT YOU OUT BY END OF DAY."
Votey:
A grim-faced person frowns, shown with sketchy hand-drawn-style line art and scribbled, unreadable handwriting above their head.
Text above: "LOUSY FREELOADING OFFSPRING"
A man stands on a stage in front of an audience, gesturing as he speaks.
Man: "I DON'T KNOW ABOUT OTHER COMPANIES, BUT HERE, WE'RE NOT EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS. WE ARE LIKE FAMILY!"
Panel 2:
Caption at top: EARLIER...
A bald man with glasses speaks sternly to a young boy.
Bald man: "BILLY, YOU'RE FIRED."
Boy: "BUT DAD-"
Bald man: "EMPTY YOUR BUNK BED. I WANT YOU OUT BY END OF DAY."
Votey:
A grim-faced person frowns, shown with sketchy hand-drawn-style line art and scribbled, unreadable handwriting above their head.
Text above: "LOUSY FREELOADING OFFSPRING"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A man on a stage addresses an audience of silhouetted heads, gesturing and saying, "I don't know about other companies, but here, we're not employees and employers. We are like FAMILY!" Panel 2, captioned "Earlier...": A bald, bespectacled man sternly tells a small boy, "Billy, you're fired." The boy protests, "But Dad-" The man continues, "Empty your bunk bed. I want you out by end of day." The joke: the boss claims his company treats people like family, but his actual family relationship was just as coldly transactional as firing an employee. Votey: A grim, frowning face drawn in loose line art, with the scrawled words "lousy freeloading offspring" above, mimicking the dismissive way one might think of a fired worker.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.