Comic Strips

I hate feeling like an expendable human resource. When I was laid off it was completely without advanced notice, they're never considerate enough to notify you two weeks in advance (like we are supposed to do).

It's not like the executive types are known for their empathy. I've seen the Chairman of the Board throw full on temper tantrums (and throwing stuff) at his subordinates. They have zero qualms laying us off if it means it increases this quarter's bottom line.

Yup. Post-COVID, the rich were scared by the newly empowered worker who had just finally begun to understand their worth and power, and have declared war on the working class in retaliation. There's plenty of evidence for this by now; the pattern is obvious.

So real talk time, what are doing about it?

Why aren't the remaining workers walking out in protest? Why aren't sympathetic industries and collectives talking to all of these recently released labor force members and collectively organizing marches and strikes, encouraging workers to refuse to do labor until executives take massive paycuts?

What do we have to do, and why aren't we doing it?

And if you are somebody out there doing it, what do people like me have to do to get involved?

TODAY: The dam has never been more profitable, now that we've fired all the folks with their fingers in the little cracks.

THIS TIME NEXT YEAR: Oh no! The dam has failed! Please help us, we need bailouts!

Cool comic but is it necessary that we see corpo and ceo bad posts every day? I didnt know this is boringdystopia. Lets either coordinate strikes or not talk about it at all.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

You serious?

For real though. Yes the CEO can get a pay cut, but that is unlikely to save more than a few individuals. The costs of labour are just that high, often the highest of all costs a company has. That's why laying off staff, although terrible, is the best way to save money for a company.

I agree that CEOs earn waaaaay to much for what they actually do, but cutting that is not the magic solution people imagine it is.

Even the famous pay cut by Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo was accompanied by other cost saving measures in the company, and only because Japanese law demands that layoffs be the last thing a company does.