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WCDT strips 4111 to 4115 (7th to 11th December 2020)

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BenRG:
Okay, so this one is entirely based on strips 4395 and 4396 where May is thinking about where she can go in terms of a new job. One thing is sure from the first panel of Strip 4396: Whatever she does, she intends to be sexy too!

What do you think are the three best options that could be open to her? You'll notice that I have included all the options Jeph suggested in strip 4396, even though I do think at least one of them is more Jeph's tribute to Charles Schultz than anything else.

What options have I chosen?

* Admin at Union Robotics - It's a logical outgrowth of her volunteering to work with Sam one afternoon. She figures out that Faye and Bubbles need someone to keep their 'files' in order and maybe take appointments. I think that her attitude would let her fit right in!
* Street entertainer/marketing leaflet distributor - Because this is a job that she told Faye that she likes
* Sven's professional muse - Because I'm a Svey shipper and I like the thought that, no matter what job she eventually gets, she can't get away from Sven and her affect on him!You have three votes each!

Gyrre:
Oh thank god, I was completely drawing a blank on the QC related poll idea I had in the middle of last week.


Other: Something on-screen in television/streaming. Probably just local commercials or something, but can you imagine her as a news anchor? That has potential for hilarity. She'd probably either do the fluff pieces or on-the-scene segments.

Dandi Andi:

--- Quote from: Gyrre on 06 Dec 2020, 06:20 ---can you imagine her as a news anchor? That has potential for hilarity.

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Better. Let her do the weather. Call it "Let me just fucking Google that for you". She'll make a big deal out of the fact that she's just pulling data from the National Weather Service which you could have done in five seconds from the device you're already watching her on.

N.N. Marf:
(Addendum:

--- Quote from: Bud ---Repo Man's always intense

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I think May would jump right on to being a repo diver, but I think the story would be made so much more interesting if:)
May quits / gets fired from her convenience-store job, thinks about what to do for money, gets desperate after a while and pleads the case to Bubbles/Faye that they, despite struggling to be profitable, should take on another employee. May produces a list of qualities, like her no-bullshit sensibility and hard bargaining---qualities that she's actively demonstrating in that moment---and more, that'd make her a benefit to their business. Faye begrudgingly accepts it, half because May has a good point about how she could probably help the business and half from wanting to help May---begrudgingly, half because they don't know how they're gonna pay, and half because she hasn't really liked May recently. Sam's spray business, meanwhile, is on the up-and-up, so the four of them end up arranging that officially May'll be Sam's understudy or something (I think it might even end up being phrased that way), while mainly focusing on how to maybe improve Union Robotics. In theory, she'd be doing admin work, but really, she'd be doing all sorts of odd jobs, most of her own devise or Sam's bidding. At some point, Sam needs to do something for a few minutes, and she's used to Bubbles filling in her doodles when that happens, but this time, Bubbles is busy, too, so Sam asks May to ``fill in for me a sec.'' May doesn't really know how to proceed, the client voices their excitement about getting not only a collaborative spray, which is rare, but with a new artist---their friends will be invidious, etc---so May takes that cue to horribly mangle whatever cool thing Sam had started, but the client ends up liking it so well they pay extra, and get that part of their chassis replaced so they can hang it up for all to see. May achieves legendary status as a spray artist, but doesn't think she can live up to the expectations, so keeps producing ever stranger masterpieces, eventually starting to purposely do it as horribly as possible, just to try to get them off her case, but that's very in right now, so that only flames the fire more. May, of course, is not conscious of the art appreciation scene, but only knows that everyone wants her sprays. Eventually she caves, and starts trying to make good stuff, but less often, because she's under a lot of stress essentially working two jobs, wanting to focus on the Union Robotics admin work---just as the horribly mangled fad starts dying down. There are always diehard fans who won't like her newer stuff, but 96% of connoisseurs agree, if her early work was any good (and oh-boy do they thing it was good), then her newer work must be great. Meanwhile, May has been sorting out inefficiencies in Union Robotics, bargaining down the price of the parts they order, fairly aggressively advertising the brand she's, maybe not consciously, building. There's even a bit where she assumes Momo ``knows all that social-media crap.'' She ends up often telling Bubbles/Faye what to do, effectively becoming their boss, then after a while of the business being profitable, May notices that she still hasn't seen a penny from Union Robotics per se---she's been paid enough for her sprays, but is still struggling. They all realize the error, and make it official, and give her `back pay'---for however many months May's been on the books: so May is officially their boss now, though they are still very much the owners and can fire May if they really want. Or they reorganize it so that May is a contractor for Union Robotics, for Sam.</walloftext>

--- Quote from: Dandi Andi on 06 Dec 2020, 08:25 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 06 Dec 2020, 06:20 ---can you imagine her as a news anchor? That has potential for hilarity.

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Better. Let her do the weather. Call it "Let me just fucking Google that for you". She'll make a big deal out of the fact that she's just pulling data from the National Weather Service which you could have done in five seconds from the device you're already watching her on.

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Hey, TV's gotta try something to appeal to younger viewers. Tangentially, I remember back in the early 90s, when I took out my TV service. I was at friends' place, and a little kid was running around (I dunno, they were 5?) and there was a violent movie streaming, and the kid just looked at this terrible thing that happened on the TV, and was taken aback, and then it didn't even register. They're probably OK, but that horrified me.

Perfectly Reasonable:
Space junk removal. Net the small stuff, attach de-orbit retro-packs to bigger stuff.

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