FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for January 22, 2025

Just like at some workplaces, no work is directed to the incompetent staff members and you cannot get rid of them (no further comment).

Tactical incompetence at it finest.

His nose looks like one of his parents was a rhino.

Mr. Java :)

“Mr Java,” was its spokesperson some amazing Met, like “Marvelous Marv?”

Weaponized incompetence—it’s a lifestyle choice.

My wife likes to cook. I like to eat. It’s a nice arrangement.

She gets after me for being in HER kitchen while she’s cooking. I get after her being in MY kitchen when I’m cleaning up. The dog sits and venerates both of us as we do our respective tasks. He does not beg, he just sits in the corner and watches our every move.

He gets his meal when we get ours. He consumes his in under a minute. He also gets “scrapies” – a small amount of dog-friendly food after cleanup. This might be left over from the meal or just a doggy treat or a couple of baby carrots (he loves them). We get dessert, so does he.

The we conclude the ritual with my setting up the coffee for the following morning. Once the dog sees that, he goes into the living room to watch TV with my wife.

I have made coffee by a number of different methods, including the sort of machine they seem to have, but I can’t thing of any that would have sprayed coffee on the ceiling, even if that’s what I’d wanted. This goes far beyond mere incompetence.

Keep up the good work, Roger. That’s how Earl Pickle keeps getting served.

Oh wow, he’s got his eyes open in the morning, not replaced with a crude line drawing that looks like a halfhearted attempt to show the cyclops after Odysseus gouged out its one eye.

that’s an old one, screw it up and you’ll never be asked to do it again

I never sprayed coffee on the ceiling. Popcorn was a different story

Just saving you the trouble of embarrassment, Roj.

My dear late husband always set up the coffeemaker the night before (it has a timer.) Perfectly proper and in accordance to the Bible.

“Hebrews.”

Same thinking applies to the liberal use of bleach when doing laundry, it only takes once and you’re off the hook from there.

Should we ask how the coffee ended up all over the ceiling…?