by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs – June 28, 2026

OK, not really an LOL to your editor. It’s a comic that brings back painful memories of actual events.

Adding staff to a project in the middle is problematic: (1) you have to bring them up to speed, and (2) you’re likely to get staff that can be spared from other projects — not necessarily the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Similarly, a PM (project manager) added in the middle can be useful, or can just be a dysfunctional scheduler of status meetings, status update reports, and, if they are really bad, someone who attempts to assign blame when asked to do so by management. The difference between a good project manager and a poor project manager is immense. [end of rant]

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  1. Unknown's avatar

    i remember getting my PMP, getting hired in QA as QA, then being expected to do the PM bit as part of my QA responsibilities :)

    all of the responsibilites, all of the negatives, none of the pay or recognition.

    e. ha.

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  2. Unknown's avatar

    If the team is good, the Project Manager doesn’t matter. If the team is bad, the Project Manager doesn’t matter.

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  4. Unknown's avatar

    Re: Engineers comic –
    When I got out of college my dad’s accounting practice was not large enough to take me in, so I had to get a job working for another accountant which I did. He was a very nice man with a practice similar to my dad’s – very small (though he had 2 people working for him and dad was just him) with clients being very small businesses and we served as their bookkeeper as well as their tax preparer. Dad has basically the same, except that he had no employees – just him.

    The accountant I worked for retired a couple of decades ago and dad bought him out. (I am not a CPA.) An older man who had worked for my boss and I continued to do the work for boss’s clients.

    Dad passed away a couple of decades at this point. I took over the few clients who were left on my own. As of this tax season I was down to 5 of them. I had planned on keeping the practice going as long as there were any clients left as I did not want them to have find a new accountant – in many cases of dad’s clients I have known of them since I was maybe 10 or 11 years old and one client who is through my former dates back to boss’s dad when her mom owned their business.

    I cannot keep the practice going due to the requirements of IRS for testing, new filing rules (all returns must be filed through their system and cannot afford the software for so few clients). I still have one return to finish (woman in her at least her 80s as she is a child Holocaust survivor) – the info was just finally mailed to me, and I will be done. I will mailing letters to my last 5 clients apologizing and telling them they need to find someone after all these decades – which I had planned to never do to them. This strip made me think of my situation.

    (And now husband and I will be together EVERY day, ALL day hopefully neither of us will kill the other. – Luckily I do have my embroidery club to get out every now and then without him.)

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  5. Unknown's avatar

    @Meryl:

    With so few clients, whom you’ve known for so long, you could still offer to assist them with “self-filing” if any wanted to go that route. You would not be paid, of course, but it’s obvious you care a lot about your clients.

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  7. Unknown's avatar

    Should’ve known Brooks, a Jew himself, would be diligent about making sure the prop was both intelligible and funny.

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