Is it a job interview? An exit interview? An annual review? A disciplinary hearing? I can’t make sense of it. I guess exit interview makes the most sense. Though, had anyone ever asked me, I’d tell them that if they didn’t care enough to fix the place while I was there, I’m not going to do business consulting for free now that I’m leaving.
I think she’s explaining that she’s quitting because she no longer feels passionate about quitting the job. As opposed to the more usual feeling passionate about the job.
It could be that she is passionate about (loving) the job; she thinks it is great and it fills her with joy. But then if something goes wrong – some monstrous new manager arrives who is taking the organisation in a disastrous new direction and demoralising the workforce and whatnot, then she is passionate(ly angry) about quitting. It means something to her. It’s not one of those tick box by-the-numbers drone jobs for a company and industry she is indifferent about.
She’s a contrarian. She’ll only work for an employer she hates working for. And she hates working for this one (hence the concerned look on the manager’s face). If she ever reaches the point where she’s blase about working there, she’ll know it’s time to leave.
Friday’s strip has essentially the same scene. But her speech there refers to her resume , so it seems to be a hiring interview.
Perhaps she’s hiring him.
She’s on the wrong side of the desk to be hiring (see the drawers), I think.
More probably: she quit, so the HR asked her if the job was the problem. It wasn’t: she just likes to quit.
Mitch4 is right, IMHO. If it were an exit interview, there would be no “my job here” yet. She’s just looking forward to the angst.
I think that is just art being reused. Can’t draw any conclusions between the jokes.
I think this joke is just that quitting any job she takes is a foregone conclusion. So one of her criteria about taking jobs is that she knows she will be sad when she eventually quits it.
” If it were an exit interview, there would be no “my job here” yet.”
Huh? You get an exit interview on the way out, when you leave your “my job here”. The complaint would be that “my job here” no longer exists, not that it doesn’t exist yet.
I think this is just one of Pardon My Planets common themes.
Modern life is so neurotic that even when things go well we assume that must be something wrong and things going bottoms up is and soul-crushing is how things are *supposed* to be.
She assumes that any job she has there’ll come a time when she gets fed up and passionately has to quit. She assumes such passion would be a good thing and that she imagined just how passionate she’d be when she storms out, that that must be a really good aspect about the job and therefore this is one of the best jobs she ever had because of it.
Sorry, my error. I should have said ”If it were a job interview, there would be no “my job here” yet.” I’ll go bury my head how.
There was an episode of Seinfeld where Elaine heard rumors that her boyfriend had a tendency to break up very badly. So she decided to break-up with him. When pointed out that that would just bring the bad break-up sooner and that the whole thing could be avoided by staying with him she said “I consider the break-up to be a very important part of the relationship and I just can’t be with someone who can’t do well”.
Pardon my Planet is a universe of this logic only… not as competently done.
This woman considers quitting the job to be a very important part of the work experience. One of the criteria she had for choosing the job would be how passionately she’d feel about quitting it.
” job interview”
Yeah, obvious in retrospective. Sorry, Ed, I should have figured out what you meant without having to ask.
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Is it a job interview? An exit interview? An annual review? A disciplinary hearing? I can’t make sense of it. I guess exit interview makes the most sense. Though, had anyone ever asked me, I’d tell them that if they didn’t care enough to fix the place while I was there, I’m not going to do business consulting for free now that I’m leaving.
I think she’s explaining that she’s quitting because she no longer feels passionate about quitting the job. As opposed to the more usual feeling passionate about the job.
It could be that she is passionate about (loving) the job; she thinks it is great and it fills her with joy. But then if something goes wrong – some monstrous new manager arrives who is taking the organisation in a disastrous new direction and demoralising the workforce and whatnot, then she is passionate(ly angry) about quitting. It means something to her. It’s not one of those tick box by-the-numbers drone jobs for a company and industry she is indifferent about.
She’s a contrarian. She’ll only work for an employer she hates working for. And she hates working for this one (hence the concerned look on the manager’s face). If she ever reaches the point where she’s blase about working there, she’ll know it’s time to leave.
Friday’s strip has essentially the same scene. But her speech there refers to her resume , so it seems to be a hiring interview.
Perhaps she’s hiring him.
She’s on the wrong side of the desk to be hiring (see the drawers), I think.
More probably: she quit, so the HR asked her if the job was the problem. It wasn’t: she just likes to quit.
Mitch4 is right, IMHO. If it were an exit interview, there would be no “my job here” yet. She’s just looking forward to the angst.
I think that is just art being reused. Can’t draw any conclusions between the jokes.
I think this joke is just that quitting any job she takes is a foregone conclusion. So one of her criteria about taking jobs is that she knows she will be sad when she eventually quits it.
” If it were an exit interview, there would be no “my job here” yet.”
Huh? You get an exit interview on the way out, when you leave your “my job here”. The complaint would be that “my job here” no longer exists, not that it doesn’t exist yet.
I think this is just one of Pardon My Planets common themes.
Modern life is so neurotic that even when things go well we assume that must be something wrong and things going bottoms up is and soul-crushing is how things are *supposed* to be.
She assumes that any job she has there’ll come a time when she gets fed up and passionately has to quit. She assumes such passion would be a good thing and that she imagined just how passionate she’d be when she storms out, that that must be a really good aspect about the job and therefore this is one of the best jobs she ever had because of it.
Sorry, my error. I should have said ”If it were a job interview, there would be no “my job here” yet.” I’ll go bury my head how.
There was an episode of Seinfeld where Elaine heard rumors that her boyfriend had a tendency to break up very badly. So she decided to break-up with him. When pointed out that that would just bring the bad break-up sooner and that the whole thing could be avoided by staying with him she said “I consider the break-up to be a very important part of the relationship and I just can’t be with someone who can’t do well”.
Pardon my Planet is a universe of this logic only… not as competently done.
This woman considers quitting the job to be a very important part of the work experience. One of the criteria she had for choosing the job would be how passionately she’d feel about quitting it.
” job interview”
Yeah, obvious in retrospective. Sorry, Ed, I should have figured out what you meant without having to ask.