Common Superhero Workplace Problems

As part of our celebration of the American workforce this Labor Day, we figured we would look at something that concerns every superhero: the stuff that makes their daily life harder (before they go out and supervillains make their nightly life harder).There’s nothing that’s more stressful than money problems–unless of course you’re a vigilante protecting the Earth from an alien incursion. But if you’ve got both going on at the same time? Oh, boy…AbsenteeismThese days, I’m a freelancer for entertainment news blogs, and so this is not a problem for me. In fact, those paying attention will notice that I wrote articles on the day my first child was born (at another site), the day my second child was born and recently when I had to travel across the country for a family wedding. Because I can work anywhere, and more or less on my schedule.

“I fell down some stairs” is only going to help you a couple of times, and even if you admit that you’re part of a secret Fight Club, people are going to wonder how the guy in the office who’s built like a brick house is getting his butt handed to him every night.They dealt well with this in a Robin miniseries back in the ’90s, in which Tim Drake’s school became convinced that Bruce Wayne was abusing him.

Your workplace is always getting trashed

Whether it’s because the bad guys know who you are or just the fact that it’s where you happen to be when you notice things happening, your office is probably going to get totally mangled at least once a year. Enjoy all that downtime with your friends and family, because you ain’t getting paid for it.

Or at least specialty industries, where people are pretty replaceable when they go missing for days at a time. How many test pilots and private detectives do you know in your real life? And don’t even get us started on the state of modern journalism.Of course, on the other hand, there are plenty of them who appear to be independently wealthy and working for themselves…!