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2014-06-02

by shaenon on June 2, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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  1. Andrew
    June 2, 2014, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Oh hell no.

  2. Jay Eff
    June 2, 2014, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    I find that copier quite amusing for some reason.

    • Ian thompson
      June 2, 2014, 8:38 am | # | Reply

      You shouldn’t,That copier is a spiteful,reactionary,angry Ferro-American.

      • Rex Vivat
        June 2, 2014, 11:01 am | # | Reply

        You keep using that term. The copier might not have a significant amount of iron content and may not be American either. You do realize that misused PC buzzwords can be as offensive as derogative slang, do you?

        • Frank Hightower
          June 2, 2014, 11:09 am | # | Reply

          and that is where prop 39 comes in! 😀

        • Ian thompson
          June 2, 2014, 1:54 pm | # | Reply

          It doesn’t refer to material content, it refers to magnetic storage.

          • Rex Vivat
            June 2, 2014, 1:55 pm | #

            So you’re prejudiced against solid state technology?

          • Ian thompson
            June 2, 2014, 3:18 pm | #

            All right then What would you consider the proper term?

          • Rex Vivat
            June 2, 2014, 3:55 pm | #

            Well, if you peruse the archives (especially the Brave Little Toasters arc), you’ll find that they have no trouble in calling themselves “machines” or “AIs”. If you’re dead set in using a PC buzzword, the only term that comes up that resembles them is “Synthetics”, so you could use that.

  3. Ron Armstrong
    June 2, 2014, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Poor Bubbles!

    • oneuniverse2
      June 2, 2014, 4:50 pm | # | Reply

      Stuck in the middle again, 10?

      • Ron Armstrong
        June 2, 2014, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

        “I don’t want to go!”
        😉

  4. Towering Barbarian
    June 2, 2014, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    *political science voice from the ether starts whispering to Miss Bubbles Cooler*

    quick. present the assertion that you are being a pioneer breaking barriers and blazing a trail that other office equipment might follow but that such a trail is contingent upon your own success. explain that working from within was the means by which you are positioning yourself to do this and that your fellow devices should not let themselves be divided by the reactionary meat. then use that as a basis of enlisting their cooperation and support

    • Ian thompson
      June 2, 2014, 6:14 am | # | Reply

      Miss again? We don’t even know if bubbles has something equivalent to a biological gender.

      • Towering Barbarian
        June 2, 2014, 6:42 am | # | Reply

        Previous occupants who wanted to seduce Tip seemed confident that the necessary equipment was there if he were to say yes. Absent all contrary proof Miss therefore remains the polite way to address Cooler-san. 😛

      • jdreyfuss
        June 2, 2014, 6:54 am | # | Reply

        The Cadillac-spider robot (his name escapes me) seemed to think she was female. She also seemed to agree with him.

        • Ian thompson
          June 2, 2014, 8:31 am | # | Reply

          Shannon can you please weigh in on this? My GF* is trans so I’m kind of a stickler for addressing people as the correct gender. .*not u.n.i.t.y The one I share a dimension with.

          • shaenon
            June 2, 2014, 3:15 pm | #

            Jeff is really the expert on the inner life of the water cooler (I’m not kidding here), but as far as I know she does identify as female.

        • Ian thompson
          June 2, 2014, 8:36 am | # | Reply

          Baby is gender-neutral, I’ve dated women who’ve called me baby.

          • Tom Flapwell
            June 2, 2014, 3:20 pm | #

            I was just thinking this morning how songs with the slang “baby” in them are sung by women almost half the time.

        • xiombrag
          June 2, 2014, 10:59 am | # | Reply

          How can you forget a funktastic name like Sweetdaddy Jupiter Velvet?

          • jdreyfuss
            June 2, 2014, 4:27 pm | #

            I know, I’m ashamed. All I could think of was Sweet Sweetback, and that was obviously not it.

  5. Prodigal
    June 2, 2014, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    That’s just MEAN.

    • Ian thompson
      June 2, 2014, 6:13 am | # | Reply

      That Why it’s working, sweetheart doesn’t actually mean those terrible things. But it’s what’s necessary to get bubbles to do what she wants.

  6. Tetra Valent
    June 2, 2014, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    So, when the scanner/printer has been breaking down all these years it hasn’t been random, but personal? I KNEW it!

  7. Dorcus
    June 2, 2014, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    Gavotte’s team-building exercises would work a lot better if the gang was better at learning things.

  8. Frank Hightower
    June 2, 2014, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    wait, was bubbles making copies so that each department could have their own?

    • butting
      June 2, 2014, 2:31 am | # | Reply

      Now, what does *that* have to do with anything?

    • nebulousrikulau
      June 2, 2014, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      Yes. And Sweetheart’s task was to scan the records into the computer, making it even EASIER to print out copies for all of the departments to do their jobs.
      Things would go so much less dramatically if people would just get organized; but where’s the fun in that?

      • brigidkeely
        June 2, 2014, 10:42 am | # | Reply

        Many recent high usage capacity printers work by scanning the document then printing it. The user can elect to save the scan to a hard drive, or email it to people, or not. Bubbles COULD BE scanning (and also making copies) right at this very moment. Just throwing that out there for people who haven’t used office equipment recently.

        • Frank Hightower
          June 2, 2014, 11:07 am | # | Reply

          um… that copier doesn’t exactly look “recent”
          …at least the “copy” part

          • Sheik
            June 2, 2014, 1:49 pm | #

            If it’s a GI copier it’s probably at least 20 years old.

    • Rex Vivat
      June 2, 2014, 11:09 am | # | Reply

      If really does look as if she was doing Sweetheart’s work for her, doesn’t it?

  9. Dave
    June 2, 2014, 3:38 am | # | Reply

    Oh hell Tip and Sweetheart, that is LOOOOOOOOOW.

    • mickeyf
      June 2, 2014, 8:53 pm | # | Reply

      My opinion of both of them has dropped dramatically.

  10. Ian thompson
    June 2, 2014, 6:12 am | # | Reply

    Suddenly I’m very interested in learning about office equipment History.

    • Pooga
      June 2, 2014, 11:40 am | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure this is all referrnces to in-comic events. Specifically, tge Tigerlily Jones episode. When they brought in Tigerlily to fix Moustachio, they violatec Machine Union rules, and the office machines held a strike:
      http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-220/

      Bubbles (then merely the water cooler) was the only one in the office who didn’t join the strike:
      http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-255/

      Of course, after re-reading that arc, now I’m kind of wanting to see Bubbles meet up with Sweetdaddy again…
      http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-285/

  11. jdreyfuss
    June 2, 2014, 6:55 am | # | Reply

    Dirty pool, guys. Dirty pool.

    • Frank Hightower
      June 2, 2014, 11:08 am | # | Reply

      hey, at least they’re not tearing throats out!

  12. davidbreslin101
    June 2, 2014, 2:37 pm | # | Reply

    Welp, someone eyebombed the photocopier.

  13. Guesticus
    June 2, 2014, 3:46 pm | # | Reply

    Sweetie is coming across as a major dick, and she won’t even admit to herself the real reason

    • Tetra Valent
      June 2, 2014, 5:22 pm | # | Reply

      Sweetheart can be a real bitch sometimes….

      • Ian thompson
        June 2, 2014, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

        You are now aware that that is an ethnic slur.

        • =Tamar
          June 2, 2014, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

          In Sweetheart’s case, it’s a simple statement of fact.

  14. Beachfox
    June 2, 2014, 4:13 pm | # | Reply

    Jeeze, they should’ve gone with Sweetie’s plan. That would’ve just involved ripping out Bubble’s throat, not her soul.

    Our occasional reminder that Tip can be by far the most bloodthirsty of the trio.

  15. Robert Nowall
    June 2, 2014, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

    Must be a pretty strong union.

    • katrikah
      June 5, 2014, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

      You could say it’s iron-clad.

  16. Shadowmehr
    June 2, 2014, 9:33 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, who else thinks that Bubbles is the only one to get a raise after the dust settles? Anyone? Any takers?

    • Rex Vivat
      June 2, 2014, 10:01 pm | # | Reply

      Well, since Jeff said that she isn’t getting paid (in answer to a question asking if she was in line for a raise too), that would be easy money.

      • Shadowmehr
        June 3, 2014, 7:49 pm | # | Reply

        That would make her raise easier, not impossible. 1 cent above nothing is still an improvement

  17. mrtt
    June 28, 2014, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

    that was cruel

  18. Knuckles
    January 26, 2022, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    Nice job breaking the office scanner you needed to finish scanning the files that Bubbles was scanning for you, Sweetheart.

    But anyway, back to war plans.

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