work-2
Original: work-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with dark curly hair in a red blazer, holding a coffee mug and pointing, stands in an office addressing a bearded man.
Woman: MR. JENKINS, DO I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'VE BUILT AN ISOLATED LAKESIDE CABIN IN THE BASEMENT OF THIS BUILDING, AT WHICH YOU'VE BEEN CONTEMPLATING THE MEANING OF THE GOOD LIFE ON COMPANY TIME?
Caption (below panel): Later that day, Dave was fired for Waldening at work.
Votey:
Text inside a hand-drawn box: FACT: 98% OF EMPLOYEES ADMIT TO QUIET WALDENING AT WORK
A woman with dark curly hair in a red blazer, holding a coffee mug and pointing, stands in an office addressing a bearded man.
Woman: MR. JENKINS, DO I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'VE BUILT AN ISOLATED LAKESIDE CABIN IN THE BASEMENT OF THIS BUILDING, AT WHICH YOU'VE BEEN CONTEMPLATING THE MEANING OF THE GOOD LIFE ON COMPANY TIME?
Caption (below panel): Later that day, Dave was fired for Waldening at work.
Votey:
Text inside a hand-drawn box: FACT: 98% OF EMPLOYEES ADMIT TO QUIET WALDENING AT WORK
Alt text
Single-panel comic set in an office. A woman with dark curly hair, wearing a red blazer and holding a coffee mug, points sternly at a bearded man (Mr. Jenkins) and says: "Mr. Jenkins, do I understand that you've built an isolated lakeside cabin in the basement of this building, at which you've been contemplating the meaning of the good life on company time?" A caption beneath reads: "Later that day, Dave was fired for Waldening at work" — a pun on Thoreau's Walden, framing philosophical retreat as a fireable workplace offense. The votey aftercomic shows hand-lettered text in a box: "Fact: 98% of employees admit to quiet Waldening at work," riffing on the "quiet quitting" trend.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.