Kids, these days! They have no sense of respect, no sense of hard work. It's all easy going for them, huh? How do they get these ideas?
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David Rothwell says
That’s not clueless – that’s efficient! Timothy Ferris would be proud …
Sean D'Souza says
I’m sure he would 🙂 But hey, don’t let your kids read this 🙂
Nicki Goff says
Love it! This is my favorite… so far.
Sean D'Souza says
Thanks Nicki. Working at it every week 🙂 Appreciate you dropping in.
Steven Archard says
Sean,
What a wonderful way to start a conversation…
New to your side but enjoy your incite and humor. Rock on!
SA
Dale says
Destined to be a classic!
Thank you Sean.
Sean D'Souza says
You’re welcome 🙂
Luis Cochofel says
Simple and to the point. Very good work, Sean!
Sean D'Souza says
Thanks Luis 🙂
Ken says
Great Idea!
But when the teacher finds they all went to the same outsource… 🙂
Thanks Sean
Sean D'Souza says
That’s hilarious! 🙂 And I remember that happening in school when I was a kid. 🙂
Mike says
Snicker. Four hour *homework* week!!
Sean D'Souza says
Thought it would appeal to your sense of humour, Mike 🙂
Jon P says
Funny cartoon Sean. (Except for the use of unnecessary exclamation marks.) The kid looks pretty blase about his deed, which is part of what makes it funny. Reminds me a bit of my own boys.
Sean D'Souza says
We cartoonists tend to use exclamations instead of full stops! But well noted 🙂 Thanks Jon.
Jeff Rothe says
In the case of MarketingProfs.com the students are usually “crowdsourcing” their homework.
Sean D'Souza says
Yup takes all kinds.
calvin castagnet says
did’t understand …
Sean D'Souza says
Yup, sorry Calvin. It’s linked to a marketing book called ‘the four hour work week’ that supposedly says you can work for just four hours in a day (oops, week). And one of the big concepts there is to outsource everything. 🙂 Hmmm….
Vikram says
I’m glad you rightly referred to it as a “marketing book”. A lot of people seem to revere it like some sort of Bible of the Good Life 😉
Sean D'Souza says
Welllll, those people need to have their heads checked. I’ve never seen any honest business owner ever have a four-hour work week. Ever.
Rosario says
Ha ha! Don’t give my kids any ideas now!
Sean D'Souza says
I’m not. Cover their eyes. Don’t let them see this stuff (heh, heh).
Sean D'Souza says
Thanks Rick 🙂
AVS says
Sean,
Your ‘performance’ in my INBOX over the past 18 months (or so) has been bright, insightful, detailed, inspirational, refreshing and wise…….why not infuse those qualities in to ‘Clueless Cartoons’ ?
Cheers / AVS
Sean D'Souza says
Not clear what you mean, AVS 🙁
AVS says
Those qualities (I think) are missing in these cartoons. Find them too banal, too predicatble. Outsourcing has been around for what – a decade ? and a kid outsourcing his home work is a fairly ‘dated’ possibility – I would have found it funny sometime in 2005 AD or earlier; definitely not in 2011.
Sean D'Souza says
Have you read or seen ‘The Four Hour Work Week’? This cartoon is a direct poke in the ribs (or praise for the book) based on that concept. It’s got nothing whatsoever to do with outsourcing. 🙂
Sean D'Souza says
I think that parent is ready to import a harder working kid 🙂
Laurie Rosenfeld says
🙂
Ann Marie says
Funny and true. There is a successful marketer that outsourced his homework in his college days.
LOL could be why he is so successful today.
Thanks for the cartoon, Sean.
Sean D'Souza says
🙂
Steve Pickering says
Very appropriate, considering school starts on Monday in Florida!
Bill (LoneWolf) Nickerson says
I love it! Did the kid bother to run it through spinning software to make it unique? If he spins enough copies he could sell them to his classmates 8=)
Sean D'Souza says
I’m sure the kid did. Ah, the things these marketers think up…
Brandon Wilcox says
Excellent, my all-time favourite so far! I’m really enjoying this series Sean. Looking forward to seeing where you take it over time.
Sean D'Souza says
Hey, good to hear from you, Brandon. It’s been a long time. 🙂 Trust you’re doing well.
I’m keen to develop stuff over time, and just getting my fangs into this after a long cartoon hibernation. But I have the world’s best cartoon as inspiration: Calvin and Hobbes 🙂
Sanjesh says
ha ha, very funny Sean………….I like.
Rajanesh R Swamy says
This is already happening in INDIA. I get to know the price of each assignment through my daughter.
Sean D'Souza says
Now that’s a new one. Indians outsourcing to India. Or are they outsourcing to the US now?
Rajanesh Swamy says
To fellow students who are good at the subject or skill.
Howie Jacobson says
I’m still trying to figure out how to have a 40-hour work week…
Sean D'Souza says
Exactly. Or why. 😉
Nusair Bawla says
Very very funny.
I love the look on the dad’s face….
Nusair
Zachary Burt says
Kids need to learn delegation skills in school, AND they need to learn compliance skills. Both are useful.
Arlene Harder says
Wouldn’t it be great if we could outsource all our learning? Then I could set out for France next month and be able to speak the language! For a linguistically-challenged person like myself, that would be a major boon.