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Why You Never Ask the Designers For a Favor
Usually there is nothing funny about a missing pet, but the tale of Missy the lost cat is hilarious. It serves as an example of just how clueless your fellow employees can be, and why you should never ask the designers to drop what they're doing, and help with a personal matter.
Because it's not pointless cruelty, it's a rather... extended manner of telling people that his skills aren't worthless. People (particularly businesspeople) are to quick to assume that artistic work is simple and worthless (fun fact: simplicity and minimalism are more difficult than complexity).
You're paying for the talent and skill I've been developing since birth, not necessarily just my time. Just like I pay you a cut for the talent and skill for business and networking that you've been developing since birth, regardless of whether the sale took a minute or a week. By the way, do mind you selling my livingroom furniture for me? Oh, yeah, can do it for free? You're a businessperson, so it'll be be easy for you!
I love this guy's site. It's comedy gold.
People who are taking this seriously - Do you really believe that someone snowed under with work would spend so long composing email responses, or spend so much of his time putting together silly posters?
Do you really think that the woman asking wouldn't have got the hint and done it herself? Or even if she didn't, she might have talked to someone else who would have explained things?
Sure, that's the beauty of both the internet and humour. If you think it would be very funny, some other people might too.
Haida Manga
No, really it's not being nasty for its own sake. It's being nasty for the sake of humour. This is FICTION. Satire, comedy, sketch, vignette, etc.
You might not find it funny, which is fair enough, but at least file the author under "bad comic" instead of "cruel sociopath".