ten-percent
Original: ten-percent on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Boss (older man with gray hair): Profits are down. We need to get rid of 10% of employees.
Employee (younger man): Which 10%?
Panel 2:
Boss: Starting below the knee. That will make it harder to leave the factory.
Panel 3:
(The employee stares silently, looking concerned.)
Panel 4:
Boss: I'm concerned that you may get a morale problem.
Employee (now smiling): No, I feel fine!
Votey:
(Anyone found taking this comic as a serious commentary on anything will be subject to a devastatingly emphatic eye roll)
Boss (older man with gray hair): Profits are down. We need to get rid of 10% of employees.
Employee (younger man): Which 10%?
Panel 2:
Boss: Starting below the knee. That will make it harder to leave the factory.
Panel 3:
(The employee stares silently, looking concerned.)
Panel 4:
Boss: I'm concerned that you may get a morale problem.
Employee (now smiling): No, I feel fine!
Votey:
(Anyone found taking this comic as a serious commentary on anything will be subject to a devastatingly emphatic eye roll)
Alt text
A four-panel comic. An older gray-haired boss talks to a younger employee in an office. Panel 1: The boss says profits are down and they need to get rid of 10% of employees; the employee asks which 10%. Panel 2: The boss clarifies he means amputating everyone's bodies starting below the knee, because it will make it harder to leave the factory. Panel 3: The employee stares in silent concern. Panel 4: The boss worries the employee may develop a morale problem; the employee, now smiling oddly, insists he feels fine. The joke is that 'getting rid of 10% of employees' means cutting off the bottom 10% of each person's body. Votey aftercomic: a hand-drawn box of text reading '(Anyone found taking this comic as a serious commentary on anything will be subject to a devastatingly emphatic eye roll)'.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.