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2013-04-25

by shaenon on April 25, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Chirigami
    April 25, 2013, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Touché

  2. Tuiteyfruity
    April 25, 2013, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    YES, I have lots of questions!

  3. Dave
    April 25, 2013, 4:19 am | # | Reply

    Aaaand there’s the smug. Sweetheart totally called it.

    • WJS
      July 8, 2019, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

      And they haven’t even left yet.

  4. Eddurd
    April 25, 2013, 5:42 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “The Wall”, Pink Floyd)

    We all need the same vacation!
    We’re not leaving on our own!
    You’re being honest, just like we are …
    Seems our cover has been blown!
     Hey, leader, seems you’ve always known!
      In the hall, I’m gonna … beat my head on the wall!
      Darn it all, I’m gonna … beat my head on the wall!

    • Barking Monkey
      April 25, 2013, 6:20 am | # | Reply

      How can you have any pudding if your plot’s not discrete?

    • jdreyfuss
      April 25, 2013, 6:54 am | # | Reply

      Is this the part where Sweetheart “Run[s] Like Hell”?

  5. tremor3258
    April 25, 2013, 9:10 am | # | Reply

    Of course, her staff already resolved to be just as honest with her as she is with them….

  6. Dewy
    April 25, 2013, 10:31 am | # | Reply

    Well, this IS a government institution. Transparency has always been defined by the government as viewed through a one-way mirror. Every time a politician uses this word, I get giggle fits. Gavotte is only being true to the ideal.

  7. Rex Vivat
    April 25, 2013, 10:43 am | # | Reply

    I was under the impression that they aren’t just coworkers, they’re also friends. Is it really so strange for them to want to go on vacation together?
    Of course, suddenly asking for vacation time effective almost immediately… now that’s suspicious.

    • Dave Van Domelen
      April 25, 2013, 2:28 pm | # | Reply

      No, not too unusual. So Gavotte probably already knows all about their actual plans and is just being catty. Bee-y. Whatever.

    • Stig
      April 25, 2013, 5:39 pm | # | Reply

      > Of course, suddenly asking for vacation time effective almost immediately… now that’s suspicious.

      Also: allowing everyone in a department to go on vacation simultaneously.

      That would not have been permitted anywhere that I have worked.

      I think that Gavotte is, in effect, sending them on this mission — and getting them to burn up their vacation days as well.

      Are they sure there wasn’t a “bee on the wall” listening at the cafe?

      • Rex Vivat
        April 25, 2013, 7:02 pm | # | Reply

        Well, technically not everyone in it, as Moustachio is staying. Not that he has any choice in the matter.

      • Shadowmehr
        April 25, 2013, 8:24 pm | # | Reply

        With this group and that administrator, a bee on the wall is almost a given in any situation.

        I’m just wondering if that second panel was a hint that she already knew, or an invitation to come clean about it. Or both.

  8. Quilla
    April 25, 2013, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

    As Pratchett once said, when something is transparent it either means that you can see right through it, or that you can’t see it at all.

  9. Smithnik
    April 25, 2013, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

    “…But although you cannot see it,
    It can see you very well.”
    –Jack Prelutsky

    There are definitely a lot of hazards to transparency, and Gavotte “clearly” knows all of them.

  10. Saberbeam
    April 25, 2013, 5:09 pm | # | Reply

    This reminded me of a trailer for Borderlands 2 at around the 1:30 mark:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G31QY3SL0_I

    “Now, full disclosure: I will absolutely stab you in the back somewhere down the road.”

    Nothing quite like a bit of honesty to inspire teamwork, right?

  11. Sailorleo
    July 16, 2014, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    That’s “Another Brick in the Wall”, and all three variations on the song that appear on the album “The Wall” scan differently. (This appears to match “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” best.)

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