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WCDT 2116-2120 (6-10 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 3
RyanW1019:
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--- Quote from: RyanW1019 on 09 Feb 2012, 20:11 ---...anyway, to discuss this as if I haven't seen the second comic, who is Dale?
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A better question would be whose appearance in the next comic you just heavily hinted at. :P
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No, I'm asking because somebody on the last page bet the security chief is Dale, and because I don't know who Dale is. No hinting intended, my apologies.
slydon:
Willy Wonkott-Chatham is going to send Marigold home for eating the prototype space pocky.
DSL:
Dale is a pizza delivery guy and Marigold's World of Warcraft nemesis. Hanners is of the opinion Dale flirts with Marigold when he taunts her in face-to-face meetings, and more than a few forumites would like to see Dale and Marigold "level-up" their relationship.
Dale's mentioned having three jobs at once; being head of security on the station would involve one hell of a commute to deliver pies. Perhaps he is allowed to use EC-101.
RyanW1019:
--- Quote from: DSL on 09 Feb 2012, 20:26 ---Dale is a pizza delivery guy and Marigold's World of Warcraft nemesis. Hanners is of the opinion Dale flirts with Marigold when he taunts her in face-to-face meetings, and more than a few forumites would like to see Dale and Marigold "level-up" their relationship.
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Oh, the "This one has potential" guy...
Yeah, it's not him. I won't confirm any speculations, but I can definitely shoot down some of the crazier ones.
NotsoAverageJoe:
--- Quote from: Akima on 09 Feb 2012, 15:02 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 09 Feb 2012, 13:05 ---
--- Quote from: NotsoAverageJoe on 09 Feb 2012, 06:49 ---kinda like how if an officer's wife is caught having an affair while he's on deployment, his career will suffer as a result.
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Being punished because your wife cheats on you? If that's actually happened, how the hell has it not created a huge scandal? That is all sorts of horrible.
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Oh, I'm sure the unfortunate officer would not be punished in the sense of being thrown into the stockade, but they might find promotion hard to find. This is far from being restricted to the military, incidentally, particularly at the "pointy end" of corporate hierarchies (which is what flag/field rank would be in the military, yes?). Typically there are many, highly-qualified, bums and only a few seats. Promotion decisions are often made on the basis of very subjective judgements of people's "soundness". Having a kid with a drug conviction? Having a marriage partner who is not "people like us"? Having a child with special needs who might "distract" you? Any of these can derail a career. There is no scandal, because it is normal and routine.
The "never off duty" thing applies to civilians too in practice. Civilans do not face the UCMJ (or its equivalent in other countries) but they do face "double jeopardy" in that they can certainly find their careers affected by things that happen outside the office. As is well known, embarrassing photos and opinions posted on Facebook, Youtube etc. can come back to bite you. Recruitment firms routinely trawl that stuff nowadays. Getting drunk at the company Christmas party was a Career Limiting Move for decades before the internet.
As the old sergeant in the cop-show said: "Be careful out there!"
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yep, pretty much this. fortunately for civies, there's the option of fighting back with legal action. the whole chain of command (they take it really seriously and have it, and the consequences of bucking it, written down in incredibly boring and annoying detail) thing in the service makes just raising the issue almost as big a black mark against you as whatever it was that got you black balled in the first place.
i actually expected today's comic to be Potter repeating her graduation mistake in celebration... now im wondering whats up with Marigold. hmmm, could her creepy-glasses gaming arch nemesis be involved somehow?
meh, doubt it, but good for a chuckle to think about.
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