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Come up with your own caption …
And this week’s winners are . . .
“Good news is I got a job. Bad news, it’s the same one I had in high school.”
– RICHARD SMITH, Santa Rosa
“So this is how trickle down economics works.”
– JULIUS ORTH, Santa Rosa
“The ad said it was a management position. I ended up managing a deep fryer and 47 pounds of potatoes.”
– MARK BOWMAN, Santa Rosa
“I got McFired.”
– DALE STOUT, Sebastopol
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The cartoons are drawn by Gary Varvel, who has served as political cartoonist for the Indianapolis Star since 1994.
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“Trickle-Down job economics.Once full time boss to part-time employee.
Well Honey, what would you like to hear first? The good news, or the bad news?
Who knew Soylent Green would sell so well…
Even fast food is slowing down.
Make it 48%
Are there any “Community Organizer” jobs available?
It’s really kinda sad. Thirty years in banking,and I needed training to make change!
The ad said it was a management position. I ended up managing a deep fryer and forty-seven pounds of potatoes.
Apparently, I DIDN”T deserve a break today.
I can no longer tell the difference between the clown at my job and the clown in the White House.
All I asked was if Obama would eat here….
The private sector’s doing fine? What a Whopper.
“They said I was over qualified at Hooters.”
Put down the paper. Those stats are no longer accurate, they just went up.
Well I finally got a window office.
“I said but I’m a vegetarian, they said after working here, we all are.”
“I know you like “Five Guys” burgers better, but they already had five guys.”
Mayor Bloomberg siphoned off all our profits.
Last year the word was “super-size” and now I’m let go
because the word has been changed to “down-size.
I got mugged on the way home from the office, then when the kid saw what I had in my pockets he gave me this stuff.
get a job honey, the EPA justed past a gas tax
What a Kroc.
From yes man to you want fries with that in company record time!
So this is how trickle down economics works.
I’ve gone from making a killing on Wall Street, to killing people with greasy french fries!
Unemployment: millions served.
Don’t Grimace.
I’m leavin’ it.
Turn’s out I won’t be needing my suit or briefcase for my new job.
Damn those job creators! We are now part of the 47% that will not need to pay federal income tax next year.
What’s for dinner? Anything but hamburgers!
I got demoted today.
It was this or the clown suit.
“It’s a dog eat dog world out there honey. Glad it’s a burger joint.”
That’s a McWrap.
Super *sighs*
I didn’t cut the mustard.
Hold the lettuce, I’m in a pickle
Let’s hit the sauce and forget it.
“They have good retirement benefits, all the condiments we would ever need, including catsup.”
” It’s not all bad, our son is now my boss. He said he wouldn’t hold my Masters Degree against me.”
Well at least you won’t have to pick up my suits at the dry cleaners anymore!
“I’ve passed the point of no return. Do you know what that is, Beth? That’s the point in a journey where it’s longer to go back to the beginning. It’s like when those astronauts got in trouble. I don’t know, somebody messed up, and they had to get them back to Earth. But they had passed the point of no return. They were on the other side of the moon and were out of contact for like hours. Everybody waited to see if a bunch of dead guys in a can would pop out the other side. Well, that’s me. I’m on the other side of the moon now and everybody is going to have to wait until I pop out.”
Well, I got hired as an “Assistant Kids Meal Engineer”. The Ronald MacDonald job has a waiting list.
This corporate sponsorship of political campaigns is going a little too far.
I only took this job to help re-elect the President. On November 7th, I’m outta there!
After what I saw during training,I’ll never eat another Big Mac again!
I think we need to consider your idea of
growing “medical” marijuana, instead of this legitimate job.
My dear….I am not “loving it.”
Please do not tell me we are having cheeseburgers for dinner!
“My job is being outsourced, how quick can I learn Chinese?
” I told the boss where he could shove that severance pay.”
“Well the NFL fired me, at least I still have Pop Warner.”
Good news…I got a job. Bad news…it’s the same one I had in high school!
If at first you don’t succeed, fry, fry again.
“You can put that paper down honey,I just got a job with a Fortune 500 company.”
Please, no McRibbing.
First I was underemployed, now I’m unemployed.
I got McFired.
I’m here to apply for the position of unemployed husband.
Honey this working at the golden arches is giving me swollen arches!
“Geez Louise, Only 6 more years until retirement, I can’t WAIT”.