job-3
Original: job-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Interviewer (a balding man, seen from behind): SO, WHAT MAKES YOU WANT TO WORK HERE?
Applicant (a young man with red/orange hair in a red shirt): WELL, I'VE ALWAYS HAD AN INTEREST IN...
Panel 2:
(The applicant smiles silently, raising a finger.)
Panel 3:
(The interviewer looks down at a resume/papers on the desk. A document reading "JOB OPENING" is visible.)
Panel 4:
Applicant (now reading from a paper): CROUCHING AT THE BACK OF A LARGE TRENCHCOAT SO THAT YOU APPEAR TO BE A CENTAUR?
Panel 5:
Interviewer: CAN YOU MAKE CLIP-CLOP NOISES? MY LAST ASSISTANT WAS GREAT AT IT.
Votey:
Interviewer (off-panel, large shape on the left): BUT WHAT DO YOU DO?
Applicant (a small figure on the right): THIS. THIS IS WHAT I DO.
Interviewer (a balding man, seen from behind): SO, WHAT MAKES YOU WANT TO WORK HERE?
Applicant (a young man with red/orange hair in a red shirt): WELL, I'VE ALWAYS HAD AN INTEREST IN...
Panel 2:
(The applicant smiles silently, raising a finger.)
Panel 3:
(The interviewer looks down at a resume/papers on the desk. A document reading "JOB OPENING" is visible.)
Panel 4:
Applicant (now reading from a paper): CROUCHING AT THE BACK OF A LARGE TRENCHCOAT SO THAT YOU APPEAR TO BE A CENTAUR?
Panel 5:
Interviewer: CAN YOU MAKE CLIP-CLOP NOISES? MY LAST ASSISTANT WAS GREAT AT IT.
Votey:
Interviewer (off-panel, large shape on the left): BUT WHAT DO YOU DO?
Applicant (a small figure on the right): THIS. THIS IS WHAT I DO.
Alt text
A five-panel comic of a deadpan job interview. A young red-haired applicant in a red shirt sits across a desk from a balding interviewer. Panel 1, interviewer: "So, what makes you want to work here?" Applicant: "Well, I've always had an interest in..." Panels 2 and 3 are silent beats; the interviewer reads a resume next to a paper labeled "JOB OPENING." Panel 4, the applicant reads aloud from a paper: "Crouching at the back of a large trenchcoat so that you appear to be a centaur?" Panel 5, the interviewer replies enthusiastically: "Can you make clip-clop noises? My last assistant was great at it." The joke: the absurd job duty is treated as completely routine. Votey (bonus panel, drawn in rough black-and-white sketch style): a large vague shape (the interviewer) asks "But what do you do?" and a small figure answers "This. This is what I do."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.