Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 10-14 May 2021 (strips 4521-4525)
Perfectly Reasonable:
I kinda suspect we aren't talking about top of the line hot dogs here.
Thrudd:
[sneaks in away from work]
Hi, my vote is for Fairy / Unicorn / that weird girl that would cosplay all day, every day.
Leaking Hot Dog Machine?
Dang that would be one of those things that you find at those truck stop places with the mystery meat and lard cylinders wrapped in cellulose casings mislabelled as All American All Beef Hot Dogs.
[sneaks back to work]
Nepiophage:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 12 May 2021, 08:03 ---I kinda suspect we aren't talking about top of the line hot dogs here.
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US convenience store X - - - It hardly matters what X is - we all know its quality
Farideh:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 11 May 2021, 23:27 ---I can't agree. There's more to being a manager than being bossy, which is May's main trait. Actually, I think being bossy is a serious drawback. There's a big difference between being assertive when necessary and enjoying pushing people around for its own sake, and May is very much the latter. Bubbles, for example, is self-confident and assertive without being bossy.
Anyway, leaving that aside, you need to be organized and motivated. Have we seen May really accomplish anything on her own? Aside from the failed heist that happens before we first meet her. Bubbles and Roko are the characters I usually think of when we're talking about getting stuff done.
I've never dealt with a business manager - which is a different job than middle management - but it feels a bit like being a project lead, and I have a lot of experience with that, both as a project lead myself, and dealing with other project leads. Mostly the good ones were very focused on Getting The Job Done. I'm having trouble envisioning May _caring_ about organizing Marigold's life. It seems more likely she'd just see it as another shitty job, and she'd do a half-assed job as a result.
However... given that Jeph is clearly nominating May, it'll probably go a different way. My read on what May would do, based on past behavior, isn't really predictive of the strip.
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I can see where you're coming from, the portrayal that we have seen of May so far doesn't inspire confidence. However, I feel that there are mitigating circumstances. For the most part, we say May as the ex-convict, stuck in a shitty, dead-end job and in a shitty, dead-end chassis. Neither of those would really inspire her to go above and beyond, and it has been theorized on the forum that the crappy body might have caused her continuous pain. She has a new body now, but the job is the same. Finding a new one is hard for her with her criminal record.
May can certainly be bossy, but we have also seen her be helpful and supportive when she wants to be. She also likes and respects Marigold (for the most part anyway, the off-color jokes notwithstanding), and I think she'd jump at the chance to have a better paying job that doesn't involve leaking hot dog machines and shooing teenagers out of the store with a broom. Once she has that, she will try with all of her might not to screw it up.
David F:
--- Quote from: Farideh on 12 May 2021, 14:13 ---May can certainly be bossy, but we have also seen her be helpful and supportive when she wants to be. She also likes and respects Marigold (for the most part anyway, the off-color jokes notwithstanding), and I think she'd jump at the chance to have a better paying job that doesn't involve leaking hot dog machines and shooing teenagers out of the store with a broom. Once she has that, she will try with all of her might not to screw it up.
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We know she has poor impulse control, so there's lots of room for hilarious failures. I think she's also self-aware enough to say "do not give me any kind of authority over your money". (If she doesn't Momo will make that point for her.) Absent that temptation, it could work, for various humourous values of "work".
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