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WCDT - 19th Dec to 23 Dec (strips 4936-4940)

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Torlek:
While true that Claire is displaying zero chill here, this place has absolutely not earned any chill. The job interview isn't just about the interviewee showing the company why they should want to hire them. It's about the company showing the interviewee why they'd want to come work there. The only thing Cubetown has shown Claire so far is, "We have NO fucking idea what we're doing."

brasca:
It's been a year since I delurked and strangely enough it was Claire's attitude that drew me out back then. 

Last year I found her annoying for being upset over her mother mistakenly thinking she got the job she was dreaming about instead of a temporary job at Coffee of Doom.  Now I'm not sure how much time  has actually passed since then, but there was a bit of a time jump and Cubetown is the first place that's actually extended a job offer to her.  I'm not sure what librarian jobs are available in the world of Questionable Content, but looking around my corner of it I'd say beggars cannot be choosers especially when you consider the alternatives.  Would she be happier working in one of those red states that pass laws that censor what books libraries can have or lend?  And then there's their stand on LGBTQ rights.  Yes.  Cubetown is dysfunctional, but I would think by now she'd be used to it.  She shares an apartment with Pintsize.  She works at Coffee of Doom.  She lives in Northampton. 

If she's going to be this way the least she could do is recommend her brother for the job.   

Cypher:
Personally, to whatever extent she's entitled to feel peeved, there are ways of conducting oneself gracefully and respectably, if only not to lose the moral high ground. THIS... is not it. This is a teenage "uh, like, whatEVER" sulk. If I were Marten (let alone security woman, who should have noped out of there ages ago) I would have put up with about two minutes of this surliness, then said "OK, I'll be at the exit; see you whenever you're done". And I usually like Claire. I think maybe Jeph's gone a bit too far in trying to convey she's disillusioned; it's just making her look tiresome and self-absorbed.

Wheel.of.Fish:

--- Quote from: Cypher on 20 Dec 2022, 06:16 ---Personally, to whatever extent she's entitled to feel peeved, there are ways of conducting oneself gracefully and respectably, if only not to lose the moral high ground. THIS... is not it.
--- End quote ---

Quite vehemently agreed. Claire has a record of taking firm stands against incompetence and poor organization, but what's with the glaring stolid snapping at Marten who didn't do anything? And why is she so mad at the awkward pink security lady? She spends half her life talking to socially awkward tall people.

Her grim face heading to the office seems to be evoking Hanners' similar relentless march on her own mother, but Hannelore was rightfully enraged at being manipulated and at having another person's life manipulated on her unwilling behalf. Claire is seemingly super angry at everyone around her for finding out exactly what multiple people had told her previously and what her own research had confirmed; Cubetown is not well-run. It's an open-ended AI-headed concept shop with no particular limiters in place, like some sort of technophilic version of Leary's house or John Lilly's lab.

She knew the risks when she chose to come down here, and now she's mad that the place that is world-famous for not running especially well is not running especially well.

I think she should be more amazed that Cubetown is ongoing DESPITE everything that's happening constantly. Clearly there's SOMETHING functional here, and someone so centered in organizational design should be eager to find out what it is.

... but yeah, no, snap at Marten some more.

Elder Sign:
Yeah, like the least you can do when you're angry is to keep that anger directed at the actual legitimate recipient(s), instead of malignantly taking it out on everyone around regardless of whether they contributed anything to the problem or have any real power to correct it.

Anger does not "control" the person who is angry; it's the other way around.  Lack of self-control when frustrated, angry, enraged, etc. is not a feature, it's a flaw.  And not correcting that character flaw reflects on the person choosing to do that.

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