The first rule of project management is everything takes longer and costs more. The second rule is if it’s on time and within budget, you’ve probably forgotten something.
The worst part is dealing with clients who won’t play open cards: “I’m thinking of a number, but I won’t tell you what it is. Instead, I will waste your time by insisting on innumerable revisions until I am finally able to accept that my budget is laughably insufficient. Of course, I will hold you personally responsible for this fact. Logic? What’s that? Mwahaha! Mwahahahahahahahaha!”
Anyone need a body-slave? I still have a few good years left in me and I work cheap.
Incidentally, this is my 200th comic. Well done to the stalkers who noticed that without being prompted. If you send your details to FIFA, Sepp Blatter will give you a cookie.
the other side of the mountain 
For a moment I thought you were going to suggest Mr. Blatter would give us a toot on his vuvzela.
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Ugh. That would suck.
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So funny! So true! Congratulations! 😀
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Thank you. I must write about exploding heads more often.
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the endless game of: “Here’s what you asked for.” “That’s not what I want.” “What do you want?” “Not THAT!”
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“I’ll know it when I see it!”
“Nhurhurhur. That’s what she said.”
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Congrats on a 200th comic! Is this like, 200 pesos comics…Or 200 gbp comics… How impressed should I be??
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These are like 200 Zimbabwe Collar comics. Very rare. Collector’s items, even.
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Get back to work slave
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You sound like my ex-wife.
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200th woot woot..
now..I am always on the look out for a good slave. If you come here to Ohio, Daisy and I can use you equally for slave tasks.
Rule #1..always do what I want within my budget, no matter the true cost..
Rule #2..if the true cost is high..see rule #1
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You make running shoes in Ohio?
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200 is such a nice, fat, round number. And to think you actually bailed out on us at one point! Never again.
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I call it “expectation management through inconsistency”. I’m running a seminar next week.
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Is this [making heads explode] effective on people other than clients?
Does it allow for by-passing prosecution by law?
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Yes and no.
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“This is a jewel-encrusted pony. I wanted a jewel-encrusted miniature horse. Also the jewels are the wrong color and they should spell out my name in cursive script.”
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Careful, that was very nearly a specification I can work with.
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Congrats on the comicversary… it’s DC-idedly Marvel-lous!! 😉
Now stop fart-arsing around and get back to working on that thing I’ve not yet decided upon! 😀
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Will do. I’ll email you a draft as soon as I finish up my meeting with the Magic 8-Ball we employed as a project consultant.
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Happy 200th!
And we are talking slave, right? As in no pay, no holiday, and “i work cheap” means “i really work for scraps to eat”? ‘Cause i need one, and lord knows i can’t afford it (or him or her either).
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I’ll send you my CV immediately.
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200 comics gets you a free game of skee-ball. Somewhere.
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Sweet! I’ll go somewhere as soon as I’m done here.
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first!
200th comic! It’s a trap!
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It’s a dress!
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Also, there’s an app for that.
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it’s a Trapp-dress.
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I read… “Anyone need a body-shave?”…and thought perhaps you had a hair fettish.
Well, that and exploding heads.
Happy 200th! Long may the mayhem last!
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Pardon me for being pedantic, but exploding heads would be more of a lifestyle choice than a fetish.
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Oooh! Nothing like an exploding head! Wheeee!
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Except perhaps another exploding head, but your point is well made.
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mmm, I would like to dissect the carnage of said exploding heads. You never know what you might find amongst all that meninges and fractured skull.
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I expect you’d find a miniature Hoover.
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A lot of the bloggers I follow these days seem to be writing about Brazilian waxes and vajazzles. Perhaps that’s what your program is lacking. As always, I’m here to help.
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As always, your help is appreciated
This could be a doodle in the making.
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P.S. Happy 200! You should try to make it to 300. Because then you’ll be all zen with that homoerotic/violent/awful movie that I couldn’t bring myself to watch. BTW, I really excel at giving compliments.
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Thanks, I’m really looking forward to making lame-ass THIS IS SPARTAAAAA jokes. BTW, I powerpoint at giving compliments.
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The first rule of project management is: you don’t talk about project management.
The second rule of…..
OOPS! Wrong blog. Sorry.
Congrats on #200.
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Rule #3: If someone says stop, goes limp, taps out, the project goes on. This job isn’t for pussies.
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So, I think I missed something – are you getting laid off or staying?
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Staying. For now. Those heads aren’t going to explode themselves, you know.
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