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2014-04-24

by shaenon on April 24, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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  1. Jay Eff
    April 24, 2014, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    I like how M’s speech balloons are very, very, very light gray.

    • Norman
      April 24, 2014, 12:22 am | # | Reply

      I think it’s supposed to be silver, but over the decades it’s acquired a bit of tarnish.

  2. Tetra Valent
    April 24, 2014, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    No, Sweetheart, pay cuts if you don’t comply.

    • The Ponytrician
      April 24, 2014, 1:00 am | # | Reply

      My thoughts exactly. That knife cuts both ways, Sweetheart.

      • Mahlernut
        April 24, 2014, 8:31 am | # | Reply

        And if you think about it, isn’t a pay cut that you’ve avoided something like a sort of raise?

        • Rex Vivat
          April 24, 2014, 10:20 am | # | Reply

          Only in the same way that extortion rackets offer “protection”.

          • Caelo
            April 24, 2014, 3:18 pm | #

            ty

    • jdreyfuss
      April 24, 2014, 9:40 am | # | Reply

      I do t think you can get a pay cut in the civil service unless your entire pay grade gets a cut. On the other hand, properly following pointless busywork sounds like exactly how you get bumped up another grade.

  3. Andrew
    April 24, 2014, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    I suppose Gavotte uses Dragon software for everything related to writing. Would hate to see 88 bees typing away like they were monkeys.

    • littlebeast
      April 24, 2014, 9:17 pm | # | Reply

      I’m imagining a constant stream of bees going THUNK THUNK THUNK against a keyboard….

  4. Frank
    April 24, 2014, 1:02 am | # | Reply

    d’aww. Unity is so cute when she does that

  5. Batteryhorse
    April 24, 2014, 2:40 am | # | Reply

    Well, this chapter title is certainly ominous.

  6. oneuniverse2
    April 24, 2014, 6:29 am | # | Reply

    Wilkin’s cup doesn’t go with the outfit 🙂 Of course, with a raise, that could be remedied.

  7. Eddurd
    April 24, 2014, 6:42 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “When I’m Sixty-Four”, The Beatles)

    When you get older, then I can tell
    What a “raise” might be!
    You will see that there could be increasing pay,
    Good for always, not just a day!
    You could buy candy, sammiches too,
    Superballs and stuff!
    Don’t strain your brain, girl!
    I will explain, girl,
    When you’re old enough!

     Seems before her supersedure, Miss Gavotte had sent to us
     Electronic-Mail,
     Told … us … what … to … do!
     These are imperative,
     Ere this day is through!

    Let us not panic, no need to fear
    Swarms confused and dim …
    If we can accomplish all our tasks with haste,
    Our reward is salary-based!
    Nose to the grindstone, getting it done!
    Show our boss we’re tough!
    Remuneration
    Gets explanation
    When you’re old enough!

  8. freddiefreelance
    April 24, 2014, 9:02 am | # | Reply

    Hold it! A “Raise” can buy sammiches? Maybe even Brain Sammiches? We could go down to Zombieway and get’em toasted!

  9. robertnowall
    April 24, 2014, 11:25 am | # | Reply

    Thought they were covered by one of the government unions…

    • Zap Rowsdower
      April 24, 2014, 11:37 am | # | Reply

      Black Ops social services, remember. They’re off the books and listed on the budgets under something innocuous sounding.

      If they told the union they existed, they’d have to kill them.

      • Rex Vivat
        April 24, 2014, 11:50 am | # | Reply

        IIRC, they’re listed as “furniture”.

        • Moor
          April 24, 2014, 11:59 am | # | Reply

          Not all of them — just Nick. But that’s to get it passed Gavotte’s superiors.
          That said, the fact that she was able to do that means the rest of them are probably similarly spread out.

          • keiyakins
            April 24, 2014, 8:19 pm | #

            Nick, and occasionally Unity when she does desk work.

  10. Moor
    April 24, 2014, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

    Okay so this is like 6 days behind, but did anyone else see that Nick’s transition counselor was freaking ARTIE?!
    https://nickzerhakker.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/38/
    Like, DUDE! What the HECK!?

    • merleblue
      April 24, 2014, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

      Aw, damn…poor Nick…

    • irdburns
      April 24, 2014, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

      I did not. I can’t believe I forgot about his blog! And again I say, Poor Nick.

  11. Miserichord
    April 24, 2014, 5:44 pm | # | Reply

    Depending on how quickly the making urge came into play, the last few assignments could be somewhat … “odd”.

    • Shadowmehr
      April 24, 2014, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

      Odd indeed. I have a feeling that she started the assignments before the, er, “process” with a specific endgame in mind. My best guess, and Dear Authors please excuse my guessing, that each of the team got a random, incomprehensible task that will somehow dovetail very neatly at the end.

      In short, this is going to be goooooooood. 😀

  12. Saberbeam
    April 24, 2014, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

    Nicely done, Eddurd!

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