Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 17, 2025

Dude had better grab some oars if he wants to go anywhere. Then again, he probably has no idea how to row or how rowboats work.

The Insidious Agenda fulfilled

AI determined that all the other rowers should be fired for “poor performance.”

One would hope that since the jerk’s work is done that he would lose his job, too, but he will be sent to another department to needlessly ruin.

I wish Doge was as ineffectual as that.

Another musk-rat….8(

It’s Elon. Now Elon Must row.

He ought to be wearing a black tee shirt.

Due recompense: A stroke (of one sort or the other).

That’s a nice variation of www.Lelandshields.Com/Humor and stress . shtml

Can’t read the date on the other one, but I had it hanging in my cube around the year 2000. For obvious reasons.

It cracks me up (but also saddens me) that people are taking on faith that King Musk and his Clearisil brigade are being “transparent.” Yeah, about as transparent as a steel bank vault door.

DORE

At least he’s not weilding a chainsaw…

look out for those Deranged Oligarchs Grabbing Everything

Yeah, if your idea of efficiency is taking 8 times longer to accomplish the task at hand.

He is not finishing job per Mr. Big Balls’ orders. Is supposed shoot hole in boat then say he is making boat great again.

Only one person filled out the 5 things he did on the job.

Knock him overboard into shark infested waters.

He was working at home like the crew.

Time to toss that dead weight overboard. Adding a few brick to his suit pockets would be an extra benefit.

Government workers are WISHING that they could lose the dead weight.

The old Private/Public sector boat race joke (however after working in both, the private sector can be worse than anything I saw in the public sector): Joke

There was once a boat race between a private sector team and an public sector team. Both practised long and hard to reach their peak performance but on the big day the private sector won by a mile.

The public sector team became discouraged and morale sagged. Senior managers decided the reason for the crushing defeat must be found and set up a working party to investigate the problem and recommend action.

They concluded that the private sector had eight people rowing and one steering while the public sector team had eight steering to one rowing. They immediately hired a consultancy to look at the team’s structure. Millions of pounds and several months later the consultants concluded that too many people were steering and not enough rowing.

To avoid losing again the team structure was changed to give three assistant steering managers, three steering managers, one executive steering manager and a director of steering services. A performance and appraisal system was also set up, to give the person rowing the boat more incentive to work harder.

The private sector were challenged to another race – and won by two miles. public sector managers responded by laying off the rower for poor performance, selling the oar and cancelling orders for a new boat. The money saved was used to finance higher-than-average pay awards for the steering group."

Got the job because he has a background in basket weaving.

Yet no one asks if we really need a row boat especially when we can’t afford one.

Musk in charge,. Is X still in business?

Truth. This had me LOLing!

“Not quite done, sir….it seems we’re still one body too heavy…”

Only in real life the last rower would be left with only one oar…

Flawless allegory.

Not done yet! He still has to replace that last guy with AI. You know, a self-driving Tesla Scull. Then it’ll probably run over a swimmer or two.

’WOW! if a political cartoon ever missed the boat…..

I think there’s a coxwain gag lurking in here somewhere.

Timely and accurate. The latest? Terminating the lease on the Norman OK severe storm radar tracking center. Because we don’t apparently need lead time on tornado warning situations.

Actually, it looks like his work has just started.

Can’t cut your way to greatness.

If Elon had his way it would be The Boy In The Boat.

This whole debacle ends with downsizing the population. One way or another.

Latest cuts in FDA inspectors, are you sure that produce is good?

In a few years, this strip would probably be banned from publication.

That guy won’t last. They’ll eventually leave him with just the one oar. Then none. They will claim incompetence and excess to needs personnel and dump him in the creek.

(F)Elon Musk(rat) strikes again. Nuff said.

This is last year, when all the people supposed to be at the oars were “working” from home.

Good…so leave him right there.

It’s not the Government’s. It’s the Free-Market Corporations’ efficiency expert :-)

In a boat like that they have single oars, not pairs. Without all the left leaning ones it’s not going anywhere in the future, just in circles.

Every government agency that serves American citizens since the arrival of the mad bɑstɑrd and his South African puppeteer.

Right on. Efficiency experts who have no idea of what they are looking at are not experts, and they are certainly not efficient!!!

Much better, since before there were 4 rowers facing front and 4 fact back, thus going nowhere, by design.

Let the editorial cartoons handle the politics.

Musk should try eliminating half the Tesla workers and see how that goes.

…finally the Department of Vacuum Tube Changers gets their walking papers on the way to the Solid State Circuit Board City…I wonder if they ever learned how to swim, especially without floaties?

You can still spot college rowing crews on the Charles River in Boston

Good luck on getting back to shore.

Government cutting unnecessary stuff… EXCELLENT!