About

About B-RATE

Comics for the people who make the schedule.

B-RATE is a clean, funny comic strip about the people who make the schedule: the ones who get the call-outs, field the swap requests, sit through the meeting about the meeting, and somehow keep everything covered.

It started in a pharmacy, where Ashley keeps an entire district staffed with a headset and a very straight face. Now it's grown to a call center (The Floor) and an Army orderly room (The Orderly Room). Different uniforms, same problem.

Every strip has one thing in common: somewhere, Saturday is still open. Look closely. It's always there.

Every character and workplace is fictional. The feelings are not.

Got a story?

Many strips start with something that really happened. If you make a schedule, work from one, or have ever traded your shift for your own shift, we want to hear it.

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