Some of you know that I have a visual handicap that makes it impossible to read without a very stron magnifying glass. And if you know that, you also know that the comic strip ‘Pearls Before Swine’ by Stephan Pastis is one of two comic strips – Hagar the Horrible is the other one – that are must reading for me.
Now that graduation time has come and gone, many college graduates are looking for jobs with a promising career path. In Sunday’s ‘Pearls Before Swine,’ Pastis addressed that subject head on and he really got it right.
Rat is working as a ‘Barista’ in a coffee house. A human coworker says to him, “Listen Rat…You need to start thinking about your career path with Joe’s Roastery…It offers great benefits."
Here is how Rat responds:
"Here’s how I see a corporate career. I act like someone I’m not to get ahead…You act like someone you’re not to get ahead. We both pretend like we care about each other’s families. We sometimes grab a beer. We go to the parties we have to. We smile when we need to. We praise who we must. We act like team players. We bite our tongues. And we bury our individuality for forty years. Then we die.”
Pastis summed it up exactly the way it is. So, all you new college graduates, now you know what it takes to keep and get ahead in your new job.
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