Chloroform is the key to a good business....

[Kim Brody]

Okay so a little background about my work. I work in at a cinema and in my area they have three separate theatres. The main one which is the megaplex cinema that plays all the popular movies and then two small old cinemas that play arty and most of the time unpopular movies. My boss doesn't understand that if you play unpopular movies people won't feel the need to come to the movies. Now, She isn't the kind of person that you want to get on her bad side, she can be very scary.

Here is the small story for your enjoyment

I work at both small old cinemas which are never very popular and today was an extra slow day with one movie with no one in it and at the time 2 people for the second movie (there are only two cinemas). So my boss from the main megaplex cinema calls me to find out numbers of people. I tell her at the moment only 2 people. Her response....
"That isn't good, you need to do better, okay?"
Wait Wait Wait.... I NEED TO DO BETTER?! Alrighty then if you buy me some chloroform I'll get you some customers....

[Deserted]

I'm curious how this is in any way your fault. I'd love to know boss's thinking on this one...

[strawbabies]

Your boss is an idiot. It's a very simple business concept -- if you're selling something nobody wants, you won't have any customers.

[mhkohne]

Does the boss want you out on the sidewalk like a carnival barker? WTF

[EricKei]

I'm curious how this is in any way your fault.

For the same reason that the lacks of business in a store with few customers is the workers' fault over at Grumbel's...Whatever that reason may be.

[greek_jester]

For the same reason that the lacks of business in a store with few customers is the workers' fault over at Grumbel's...Whatever that reason may be.

Beaten again! I was just about to link to the current storyline. You have good taste in comics; love your avatar!

[KellyHabersham]

For the same reason that the lacks of business in a store with few customers is the workers' fault over at Grumbel's...Whatever that reason may be.

That sounds like some of our department managers at Macy's, on the days when the store didn't get very many new credit card sign-ups.

[EricKei]

gj: Thanks! ^_^

The comic in general makes me go O_O at times, as, while it does exaggerate from time to time like any good comedy medium, there are times when it is quite realistic. This storyline is one of the latter.

[Kim Brody]

I'm curious how this is in any way your fault. I'd love to know boss's thinking on this one...

I have no idea what she was thinking. If anything slightly goes wrong or they don't make a lot of money that day she blames us! Silly silly woman :/

[Jay 2K Winger]

Chloroform is the key to a good business....

"Why-- why do you have chloroform?"
"Why don't I have chloroform?"

[EricKei]

"Hey, does this smell like chloroform to you...?"

[Deserted]

Why did you do that to T-Bob, and why do you carry chloroform around in your purse?

[Gilhelmi]

For the same reason that the lacks of business in a store with few customers is the workers' fault over at Grumbel's...Whatever that reason may be.

Thank you; This comic has been added to my regular reading list.

Also

Curse you; I just lost 5 hours reading this comic. You should be more careful when posting links. *I say sarcasticly*

[EricKei]

Glad to be of service.

You have no idea how many webcomics pages I've done archive binges on . If I like one, I tend to just spend the next free day or two reading the whole damn thing (keep in mind, tho, that I've followed several from when they were in their infancy, like 8bit theater and penny arcade)...Hell, I'll do it on ones I know already just to have a recap every few years. PS238, Girl Genius, Dominic Deegan, Megatokyo, Sinfest, Erfworld, Order of the Stick, El Goonish Shive, Sequential Art, etc...Those are just from my current "daily reads" list. I really gotta get around to doing that for XKCD at some point. I was only able to do it for a day or so, but the fact that it's (mostly) a non-serial comic helps.

Yer lucky this isn't a certain social board I once frequented back in the day >_> (now long since evaporated into the aether. Pre-4chan era, but still very...loose...with regards to content)

I once got a thread full of fellow loonies to click a link to a certain scary Cowboy Bebop cosplayer's site (MAN-FAYE) (highlight to see, think "I like to move it move it" ) specifically by telling them, in no uncertain terms, that they should NOT click the link for any reason whatsoever. Naturally, they reacted by doing so. I've grown up a bit since then

I still have my favorite reaction to the incident etched into my brain: "No...That was just...No. For all that is heavenly and sacred, FUCK NO."

And no, there is no way in hell I would link it here, even if the page still existed.

Wait, where were we...? Oh, yeah. Chloroform. (Warhammer 40k meets Sonic with a healthy dash of dark humor. Go ahead. Click it. You know you wanna.)

[prjkt]

yeah I think I've read all of XKCD, Perrybiblefellowship, Retail and Cyanide & Happiness