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WCDT Strips 3606 to 3610 (6th - 10th November 2017)
Shjade:
--- Quote from: Dust on 07 Nov 2017, 20:03 ---I'm surprised Hanners hasn't developed a system (traps?) to keep strange people of her apartment yet, especially in that building.
Or maybe Tilly was just too badass for such - considering how many supporting characters apparently have been eaten by that Allosaur at this point, their replacements have to be extreme just to walk the mean streets of Northampton.
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...I'm not sure what you're talking about here?
Tilly was invited in through the front door. She didn't sneak into the apartment. What traps would she have set off?
--- Quote from: JimC on 07 Nov 2017, 12:01 ---I'm just tryingg to imagine being in Tilly's shoes. You've been employed as a PA to her daughter by someone with a fearsome reputation. It seems possible even probable the daughter has been described as a little eccentric. You turn up at the address to find your new employer still asleep, and on seeing you she immediately turns her back on you, without even inviting you to cross the threshold, starts a telephone shouting match with the person who emplyed you, which is concluded by her flinging the phone across the room and breaking it.
Have any of you ever had a even vaguely comparably bad first 5 minutes in a new job?
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Trying to look at this from the perspective of someone accustomed to being an effective PA for some fairly high-level people: neither the shouting nor the phone-throwing were directed at Tilly, so...not a bad start at all, really. Maybe not good enough to be called "encouraging," but could be far worse!
OldGoat:
Jeph brought Tilly on board because he's been reading my mind. I've been thinking Winslow can sometimes be a little annoying and Tilly is his way of saying, "You think Winslow is annoying? I'll show you annoying!"
Seriously, every one of the 'droids in the cast displays more ability to think autonomously than she has some far. I see an arc about freeing her mind from B E-C'so grip. Maybe Spookybot can expel Beatrice from Tilly's head like Sauruman from Theoden's. Imagine Beatrix landing on her arse and sliding backwards across her office floor.
Edited for unwelcome spelling autocorrect disaster.
BenRG:
Today's conversation between Tilly and Hannelore was... terrifying. Basically, Hannelore has to deal with someone who has somehow internalised instructions to work for her no matter what she experiences to the contrary. Is that some kind of mental illness or is it the sort of cognitive dissonance you need to work for Beatrice without being driven mad by the amorality of her business style?
In any case, this promises to be a competition between Hannelore's good nature and her irritation. If the latter wins out, then Tilly will find herself ejected and, if she persists, arrested. Of course, that may be Beatrice's trap: To drive Hannelore into destroying someone who is at your mercy and has no flexibility to do anything other than what they are currently doing!
Tilly's clearly got an editic memory of some sort to be holding that level of information about Winslow for instant recall. Either that or she has some sort of data implant (some manner of cerebral augmentation being another obvious control mechanism for Beatrice).
Finally... I find myself wondering if Companion Contracts were outlawed (hence 'former') but that most Companion AIs stayed with their humans out of a sense of responsibility, concerned that they can't manage without them?
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 07 Nov 2017, 10:49 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 07 Nov 2017, 10:19 ---
--- Quote from: hedgie on 07 Nov 2017, 10:05 ---The ears are a telltale sign that she's human.
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(Adding "Ear lobe development" to checklist.)
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Please don't overdo the lobes because that's how you get Ferengi - nobody in their right mind wants Ferengi - Wall street 1%ers don't count since they are proto-Ferengi and a right mind hasn't existed there for at least a century or more.
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*raises hand offering a high-five/high-touch*
Also, some humans have "attached" earlobes.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 07 Nov 2017, 15:21 ---
--- Quote from: JimC on 07 Nov 2017, 12:01 ---Have any of you ever had a even vaguely comparably bad first 5 minutes in a new job?
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I had a temp job where I walked in the door and had to turn around due to the fire alarm going off. Okay, the fire wasn't that bad but not the best way to start/finish the job.
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I worked part-time at a Sonic for two weekends. When the store manager introduced me to her assistant managers, I found out they were both her sons and that they had a rather dysfunctional family. Having grown up in a dysfunctional family, I knew that the job probably wouldn't be pleasant.
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