Comments on: Packard Jennings wants you to do bad things to your job.

Packard Jennings wants you to do bad things to your job.

loquacious — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:27:49 -0800

Job? Fuck it. from Packard Jennings. Also, A Day At The Mall. (Mildly NSFW due to cartoon nudity and copulation. But, screw it, y'know? via.)

By: subaruwrx

subaruwrx — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:39:08 -0800

ah, now I see the nsfw warning... Thanks though, funny read.

By: freebird

freebird — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:39:27 -0800

That's beautiful.

By: frecklefaerie

frecklefaerie — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:42:22 -0800

I feel I should give some credit to castironskillet for sending me the link I posted on metachat.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:43:43 -0800

If this is paradise I wish I had a lawnmower.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:50:22 -0800

I think someone had stolen this and put the images on their Russian LiveJournal page, which was recently digg'ed or reddit'ed. Ineterweb meme tracking is getting more challenging by the day. (Not that this isn't worth the post.)

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:53:20 -0800

I think someone had stolen this and put the images on their Russian LiveJournal page, which was recently digg'ed or reddit'ed. Indeed. But they were nice enough to link and attribute, which is why I linked to the main site and the proper frames.

By: anotherpanacea

anotherpanacea — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:06:27 -0800

Great stuff, best of the web, dugg, +5, you know the drill. I hate the meme tracking though... it takes the joy out of reading posts like this, because I realize that I'm like the zillionth person to laugh at these images, and that if I mention it to anyone they'll look at me blankly before saying, "Oh, that."

By: rough

rough — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:17:20 -0800

Very Project Mayhem. Cool. Thanks.

By: Gamblor

Gamblor — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:22:01 -0800

Thank you, I love subversive art like this. Hiding the "A Day at the Mall" printouts inside The O'Reilly Factor For Kids was inspired brilliance.

By: redteam

redteam — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:34:53 -0800

Ugh, panel 11 contains a shirtcocker.

By: Gamblor

Gamblor — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:38:33 -0800

shirtcocker? I'm not sure Donald even has one under there. I am sure that I don't want to know for certain.

By: greycap

greycap — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:41:48 -0800

Wow. I loved this. I like how it descends into Joy of Sex style illustrations halfway through (particularly the staff room scene).

By: StopMakingSense

StopMakingSense — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:44:43 -0800

Wow. I love this guy a little. Trying to buy a Mussolini action figure at Wal-Mart.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:50:40 -0800

yeah. That's comedy.

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:50:53 -0800

Finally, some information graphics I can use.

By: beerbajay

beerbajay — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:06:02 -0800

I thought the first half was getting kind of played out, so I'm glad the situation was taken to the logical extreme. Satisfying, in the end.

By: Western Infidels

Western Infidels — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:15:02 -0800

Project Mayhem indeed.

By: galimatias

galimatias — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:25:03 -0800

The first rule of Project Mayhem is you do not talk about Project Mayhem.

By: kenlayne

kenlayne — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:14:57 -0800

I love how this project lets you hurt junk-mail peddlers (I'm talking to you, Chase!) while giving the employees forced to deal with this stuff something fun and inspirational to look at. Too many chaos projects are pointlessly mean to the underpaid nobodies. Pretty pictures filled with interesting alternatives ... who wouldn't enjoy that? Finally, I can make use of those crappy color printers I get "free" with every new computer. Are there any similar projects that take on the incredible hassle of having to individually open and shred all these credit card offers, actual blank bank checks and other dangerous garbage we get in the mail every day? (Hell yeah, I "opted out," and the junk keeps coming ... mostly from companies I reluctantly have to deal with.)

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:21:34 -0800

Goddammit, the first rule of Project Mayhem is you do not ask questions.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:54:35 -0800

You think you're coming into this house? You're too goddamn fat to get in! *Swats at cortex with a broom Ha, ha. Seriously, though, this is amusing, but like raging against the storm.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:31:39 -0800

Oh, excellent, glad to see things all turn out OK in the end. I was a bit worried seeing the SWAT teams, but I guess they were won over by the peace-love energy of the liberated office workers.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:59:27 -0800

Unless he was trying to prove that some Wal-Mart cashiers are reasonably intelligent, have a sense of humor, and are pretty damn helpful and co-operative, I'm not sure I get the point of the Mussolini action figure video. Loved the pamphlets, though.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:24:51 -0800

I don't think the point of the Wal-Mart/Mussolini video was to belittle anyone. If anything the point was to just get a receipt from Wal-Mart - for his own "product" no less - with the "Mussolini" tag on it, which was just awesome. He actually seemed pretty stoked and amused to me that the cashier recognized Mussolini. Also, note the part where he says "Hey, it gives you a break." and the moment where he actually deflects another customer from her line by saying "Yeah, we're having some problems." to them and they shuffle off to find another cashier. I've done a similar thing in huge, busy chain stores - finding small ways to genuinely get the cashiers to not have to hurry either through creating small "problems" or trying meaningful small talk or just trying to create small pockets of space and peace where they get a brief break from what is undeniably a hell of a work day.

By: slimbob

slimbob — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:42:41 -0800

The kid in The Mall panel 6 is Dutch! See? What a tolerant society...

By: Hat Maui

Hat Maui — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:08:32 -0800

bitchen link, tone loq.

By: oraknabo

oraknabo — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:01:23 -0800

Job? reminded a lot of this great old leisuretown strip.