3 stages of getting fired
Thursday, July 10th, 2008FYI: “getting fired for no reason” pizza is fucking delicious
FYI: “getting fired for no reason” pizza is fucking delicious
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July 10th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Bummer, man. It’s a bummer.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:24 am
you gonna do the unemployment jive? (assuming it was an on the table gig)
July 10th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Seriously, is there anything more delightful than the meal/drinks you splurge on right after getting fired/laid off/quitting? I get this manic glee and spend too much. Perhaps it’s knowing that I SHOULDN’T be spending the money and should be saving, since I’m suddenly jobless.
Once I got laid off and ended up with a bunch of money and almost used it to rebuild the engine in my 69 Thunderbird rather than save it to pay rent and such while I looked for another job. Fortunately my then-girlfriend was much more sane. It took months to find another job and by then we’d used up the windfall, and then some.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Good pick on the pizza. Hope you got extra cheese and “fuck off, restaurants” bacon on it!
July 10th, 2008 at 9:57 am
F’ing sucks! How long were you working with them? It might make a difference legally. If you were being paid under the table, you are f’ed. I wish I knew something about NYC, but I don’t. Good luck! I suppose what you need is a high-profile person to voice their appreciation for your comic. I wonder if Dave Cheppelle or some stand-up comic on Comedy Central could help.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:16 am
That happened to me with a corporate type of job, once. They then gave my duties to a woman I worked with and she quit by the end of the week. They didn’t replace her, either, and then opened a new store with the money they must’ve saved from paying us. Now they’re out of business!
July 10th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Julia, I found a perfect 1 time gig for you to do. 500$ cash. Hit me up via email and I will send you the link. Painting names and small character on a glass, like 144 of them. But shit, 500 bones could buy you a shit load of pizza.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:29 am
I think I saw a documentary on PBS that concluded “no reason firing” was, 95% of the time, the result of the employee being too damn sexified for the other employees to be able to do their work properly. Wikipedia it. Its totally true.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Those damn titties; they can giveth jobs and taketh them away.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:59 am
MDH- “I suppose what you need is a high-profile person to voice their appreciation for your comic. I wonder if Dave Cheppelle or some stand-up comic on Comedy Central could help.”
right, because it totally works like that. I’ll just speed dial him and he can pencil me in for lunch. Problem solved! and yeah, it was an under the table job so I never existed on paper, hence there is nothing I can do but cry into my cheap beer.
Willy- “hit me up via email and I’ll send you the link” ?? why do I get the impression that it’s spam, or like one of those “if you can draw Bambi, you can go to art school” ads. Or like I’d be painting 144 boners for a Viagra ad. wait a minute, where is that job? sign me up!
July 10th, 2008 at 11:50 am
You got your job unemployment cherry popped.
Congratulations - You’re officially an adult!!
July 10th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Why would “I need someone to draw 144 boners” sound weird here, but is beyond normal on Craigslist?
July 10th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
You should sell your eggs. Sterile soccer moms will pay you thousands of bucks for that shit.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Ummm… Not spam. Just trying to help. I thought you could see my email since I posted. I can’t find anyway else to contact you except for this.
Let me know.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Pizza!
July 10th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Hey Julia,
Damn, sorry to hear about the job implosion. Fired pizza is quite delicious though. Like makeup sex or a hangover burrito.
If you’re ever looking for work in Chicago, let me know.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I like the idea of you donating your eggs. It would be a lot like when Barney on the Simpsons was Springfield’s primary sperm donor. All these belching drunken babies… except yours would also punch holes through peoples faces and call them “Bitch”… Man, I really want you to do it now.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I’ll pay you to be my BFF
July 10th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Julia, do not denigrate that bambi art school thing. Apparently, it’s one of the ways R. Crumb got his start. Ever watch Crumb?
Other than that, yeah, getting fired sucks. Some people roll with it, me. Some people, friend of mine, went into ‘turtle mode’, where they just took some crappy job and stuck with it no matter how much it sucked and was beneath their abilities.
You’re in New York dude! And you must kick ass as a waitress. Maybe the place was just not doing as well at it wanted, financially? Assuming your job was in Brooklyn, surely there’s a better gig in Manhattan or Queens you could get. I have faith in ya. Good Luck.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
that blows!! my condolences. your interview with that comic guy was funny though! : P
July 10th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
If you ever want a graphic designer position for a dying, sleazy film company who pays barely enough to buy a single pizza once every week, then I have a job for YOU. In beautiful Long Island City, no less…less than a block away from a power plant.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
you can do eeeeeeeet!!! PIZZA!!!
July 10th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
is it wrong to find the cartoon-julia more attractive than the reallife-julia?
July 10th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
plastics
July 10th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Big black- if that’s how you know you’re an adult, I’ve been an adult since I was 17 (first time I got fired)
Whatisthewhat- no one wants my eggs, they are ROTTEN.
Aaron- I like the idea that any baby spawned from my genes would know how to talk and swear right after birth. Makes me proud.
Big pete- no, except that real life Julia has real life feelings, so fuck you.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
If you hand your eggs this-a-way, I will make an unstoppable army of short, beer guzzling cartoonist infants. I will teach them to shit on everything. EVERYTHING.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Welcome to America
July 11th, 2008 at 12:27 am
That’s funny about Big Pete, because the first thing I said behind your back the first time I met you was “Whoa, Julia is so way hotter than she draws herself.”
July 11th, 2008 at 4:10 am
recession city, all over the world, everybodies losing jobs what with… gas prices and house morgatage crisis. its probably all connected.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Completely off topic, but who the hell gives a damn? Anyway, I don’t know where people are supposed to send those search engine entries that somehow lead to Fart Party, and I unfortunately don’t care too much to find out, but I typed in USELESS INVENTION and you came up. Bummer. I like your comix.
P.S.
Sorry about the job, I’m sure you’ll miss the whiskey.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:48 am
“painting 144 boners”
Congratulations, you just created an entire new section of search terms of which people will be using to find your site and you’ll later be posting for us to see how people landed on your site.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Welcome to Club Unemployment! What our club lacks in money and security and health insurance we make up for in the fact that we don’t have to go to work! At least in the immediate future anyway.
July 11th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
for the 2nd panel, I imagine that cartoon “sproing!” sound effect and it makes me laugh every time i look at it.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Lame! Isn’t it always the under-the-table employees who get the axe when things change though? Good luck finding a little time to veg out and getting another job in good time.
I’ll hit up the store and buy some stuff later. For now… I’ll see if I can’t have some whiskey sent over. Anyone know of a good place online that sells makers mark?
July 11th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Congratulations!..You didn’t move to NY to become a waitress but a comic-book Goddess!
And “falafel” can be read backwards (but it doesn’t sound the same)
July 12th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Better than being fired FOR a reason.
Nothing better for your ego than being told you’re just not good enough for this barely above minimum wage job, so bye!
And yea, that first meal afterward is fucking delish.
July 13th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
[...] focused blog presence. * go, explore: The Concrete Jungle Book and its multi-modal scrapbooks. * go, hire: Julia Wertz * go, read: Harvey Pekar and Rick Veitch collaboration at the Vulture [...]
July 13th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
dont get me wrong, reallife julia’s HOT, but cartoon julia makes me wanna do bad things to my computer screen. i need help.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
@Matthew: are you saying Julia was fired by her tits? That’s gotta hurt. If I were fired by my tits I would kill them. Don’t kill your bosoms, Julia!
Oh wait. I guess Matthew is saying at some point they’ll hire you back. For something. Nm.
ps. I googled “no reason firing” and Julia’s strip is result #4. Kinda cool I think, for what it’s worth.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
internet comments are like that creepy uncle who always wants you to sit on his lap on christmas eve. ugh.
July 13th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Three cheers for unemployment.
Ohnowait.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:47 am
I think a comic based around the premise that the internet is like that creepy uncle would be fabulous…
That may be just me though..
July 14th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
didja get my email? guess you already found a new job? good luck!
July 14th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Also, I just noticed the books on your nightstand are labeled “Treehouse” and “Dishwasher”…whats up with that?
July 14th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Dishwasher is an amazing book that is a collection of the zine Dishwasher by Pete Jordan. He tried to wash dishes in all 50 states. Now he’s a bicycle repair guy in Amsterdam. Treehouses is a photography book about treehouses. I fucking love treehouses.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:29 am
Too bad you aren’t still in SF, you could go to Kennedy’s on Mondays with all the other unemployed slobs to “network” about how none of you have money.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:42 am
Oh man, Dishwasher! I heard about it ages ago on NPR but never got ahold of it. It is so next on my reading list now.
July 16th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I heard about Dishwasher, but fear of crappiness stopped me from picking it up. I think I might give it a try now.
Thanks Julia!
July 18th, 2008 at 2:28 am
I got fired recently too, now I have more time to read webcomics. I felt like the Magic School Bus gets a 9-5 anyway. Bring on the pizza.
July 20th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
If the employer gives you an actual REASON for ‘letting you go’, then he’s left himself open for a possible lawsuit. That’s why they won’t tell you why you’re being fired: it’s CYA.
July 27th, 2008 at 2:44 am
I misread “Frustration” as “Flatulence”. The wavy lines made sense then, too.