Sunday Funny for a Happy day in August

At my last Gainful Employment location, my first couple of days went sort of like this:

Only the names have been changed to protect the incompetent. I swear, sometimes I think Scott Adams must be connecting into my systems to get content for his cartoon.

Cross-Posted to A View from the Plateau

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