bro just answered smh
Maybe the woman called him “No One” off-panel.
Rookie move, you don’t bring your plant or antiestablishmentarianism to your cubical until the second month
antiestablishmentarianism
I love this word but where are you seeing it or it’s meaning in this comic?
Antiestablishmentarianism is a political or social doctrine that opposes a nation’s conventional power structure, viewing established social, political, or economic institutions as corrupt, repressive, or unjust
The former employee refused to be forced to answer calls at a corporate, for profit, call center. He’s presumably fighting against the establishment by refusing to just follow conventions in every aspect of his life that he can to fight against economic and social oppression by refusing to do what corporate lackies expect or demand of him. That’s the joke.
The fact that it was a call center doesn’t seem to be relevant, since we don’t “answer to” the phone.
But he did answer to her immediately
takes long drag from pipe He knows he can never abolish the hierarchy. He can only flatten it from a mountain into a mole hill. She sits atop his mole hill.


