For a very many years, I worked in a small business that by it’s nature created tensions between and inside people. It was my good fortune to have an office whose window overlooked the smoking area where the employees would sit around a decrepit picnic table and share their woes, gossip, and smoke. Always, there was a billowing cloud.
To create a pressure relief, and as an outlet for my own amusement, there were years where I posted cartoons and sayings in my window for them to see once or twice a day. Most of them are long gone now, having served their purpose.
Not all are lost, however! During the cleanup of a room in my house I came across some that got saved. Bear in mind that they were rough. They were quickly executed in a very few minutes. I took pictures of some of them and then did some clean up and colorization on a few.
I often got reports of employees in the next office putting their ear on the wall to listen to a closed door conversaton in my office. Always, they denied.
This occurred to me and I decided to share it with the crew. Very deep.
There was always at least one employee who made sure the secrets and tidbits of gossip had legs
I used to illustrate how lucky they were to work there by pointing out the odds against it until one of them said, “you mean 300 million people are smarter than me?”
Admitting the obvious.
I drew her this inspiration. She wanted to quit smoking. I pointed out that her two daughters would be left alone if cancer took her.
An utterly silly Diet concept based on “you snooze, you lose”. It’s so primative, and yet it cracks me up : )
This is an ode to, and not a disrespect of indigenous people. We’ve long been told that they were master stewards, wasting nothing. I just illustrated it.
I told her no, but thinking I’d left for lunch, an employee brought her dinosaur dog through the office, scaring everyone. She said it was harmless. Didn’t look harmless.