Twonks | Bluesky

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Comics in two panels

Panel 1: An office worker looks at his wristwatch and says “Well, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere”

Panel 2: the office worker walks out the door while his coworker, still hard at work, watches. A clock on the wall behind the coworker reads 10 o’clock.

    • terranoid@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      11·
      14 hours ago

      It does work with some bosses who get really confused about your non concern, especially if they see you normally work really hard and get shit done. They kind of don’t know what to do about it if they don’t want to lose you.

      I’ve seen people pull it off and also sometimes they’re just burnt the fuck out and don’t care, especially if the time you choose to do it doesn’t make them look worse or add work for them.

      Make your boss’s life easy 90% of the time time and they usually won’t care.

      You really have to find the sort of job where you have specific things you need to get done and done well, and if you accomplish that you generally make your own hours.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    6·
    16 hours ago

    “It’s 9 o’clock somewhere too. Get back to work.” - The Boss, probably.

    … this might actually be a from a Matt Groening Life is Hell / Work is Hell comic strip now that I think about it.

    But it’s possible I’ve been around long enough to expect this sort of thing from at least one sort of manager.

  • Tango@piefed.caEnglish
    53·
    16 hours ago

    That’s explicitly what the song is about. Ditching work in the middle of the workday because fuck 'em, and proceeding to get shitfaced.

    I can’t really say this comic is funny if it’s just repeating the exact meaning of the song at face value.

    • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      The phrase “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere” is much older than that song. I was aware of that as a fairly popular saying long before the song came out. Apparently, it dates back to at least 1959.

      That doesn’t really affect your point, which is that the comic is just retelling a famous joke almost exactly as the joke was originally stated.