I hate writing cover letters. Why is a resume with a well crafted summary statement not sufficient?
Yay might be good at letters, but I think they'd just skip ahead and set up the interview themselves.:laugh: This is very probably true.
I’m gonna go with the invisible/imaginary “Other” option and say Tilly. They managed do convince a literal supervillain that they were the person for the job despite the blatant fansqueeing.Tilly's unrelenting servility likely would get them many an available job; it did (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3647), despite opportune socialities---they has the requisite skills and attitude. Tilly's father thought he was sending Tilly to spy on Miz Chatham's business (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3628), who thought she was sending Tilly to satisfy an his nepotistic want (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3635) until the contract is made.
Yay’s cover letter: “By the time you are done reading this, We will have seized control of your organization and fired you. Please clean out your desk.”"Any multicellular organism remaining in this building after four (4) hours will be brutally obliterated. Consider yourself warned."
Eh, I just kept my cover letters to the bare minimum and let my resume do the talking.
I think Wil would write the best cover letter.Oh yeah, Wil exists. Hm, idea; tag team it. Tilly tailors the academic content to the job, Wil purples up the prose a bit, and Marten inserts strategically placed humour. Then Claire can do the sensible thing and burn it.
But failing that, Marten.
Yay’s cover letter: “By the time you are done reading this, We will have seized control of your organization and fired you. Please clean out your desk.”"Any multicellular organism remaining in this building after four (4) hours will be brutally obliterated. Consider yourself warned."
I think Wil would write the best cover letter.
There a couple of things to consider here. Firstly, Claire is still looking for a job and its' beginning to drag her down (I can empathise with that). However, also, Marten is an expert in raising her spirits. As much as Claire is trying to keep up her "This is serious business" policy, he's doing a good job at making her laugh! I do wonder if Marten is describing his own skill-set though...
Finally, I want to say again that I want Claire to get a job as the new assistant librarian for Miskatonic University. It's local and it basically writes the continuing arc for Claire just by existing. Cthulhu doesn't even need to turn up, just all the wonderfully weird people who would study or be on the faculty there would be enough!
I think Wil would write the best cover letter.
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I hope to ev'ry power in this place,
You hire me, and I will serve with grace.
Loved Kate from day one :) But, didn't go to the "Before the Dawn" shows when she did her 2nd ever run of shows a couple of years back. Not because I couldn't get tickets (I could have) but because it would have cost me upwards of a grant to be able to go. :(It could be an advertising trick. It's something that's there, that intense fans want, but can't have, and some of them talk about it. (To try to feel closer to it?) And some persons think scarce things are worth more---but as soon as it's released, it's no longer so scarce.
And I am a bit miffed at her not allowing the multi camera, HD, pro shot video of the shows to be released... why bloody bother shooting it, then???
Wait a minute... Why is Claire blabbing that around? Given the fact that Clinton is still wrapping his mind around his attraction to Elliott, surely he'd want to keep it private for a while?You're absolutely right, and I'm guessing Jeph is a good enough writer that he'll notice this and it will result in a temporary Claire/Clinton fallout similar to the Emily fiasco that introduced Brun.
Wait a minute... Why is Claire blabbing that around? Given the fact that Clinton is still wrapping his mind around his attraction to Elliott, surely he'd want to keep it private for a while?You're absolutely right, and I'm guessing Jeph is a good enough writer that he'll notice this and it will result in a temporary Claire/Clinton fallout similar to the Emily fiasco that introduced Brun.
Eh, I just kept my cover letters to the bare minimum and let my resume do the talking. All that they really want to know (unless they ask specifically for it) was "This is about your vacancy, yes I can do the job and I want to do so"!
There a couple of things to consider here. Firstly, Claire is still looking for a job and its' beginning to drag her down (I can empathise with that). However, also, Marten is an expert in raising her spirits. As much as Claire is trying to keep up her "This is serious business" policy, he's doing a good job at making her laugh! I do wonder if Marten is describing his own skill-set though...
Finally, I want to say again that I want Claire to get a job as the new assistant librarian for Miskatonic University. It's local and it basically writes the continuing arc for Claire just by existing. Cthulhu doesn't even need to turn up, just all the wonderfully weird people who would study or be on the faculty there would be enough!
Remember, we're on QC time here. She received her grades maybe a week to ten days ago.
Wait a minute... Why is Claire blabbing that around? Given the fact that Clinton is still wrapping his mind around his attraction to Elliott, surely he'd want to keep it private for a while?
You know me, I like Claire but she does need to have reality to smack her in the face to remind her that real relationships are more complex than romantic fiction.That's already happened (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3208), and she actually seems to be showing more restraint this time, but by this point she should have learned to stay fully out of Clinton's relationships until they're solid, unbreakable canon.
I don’t think we’ve seen Marigold’s evil laugh before.It seems to be similar to Brun's (which I can't now locate), as far as it's possible to tell.
Jeph's text at the bottom is "Angry Birds Ahegao" and... can someone tell me that doesnt exist, please? I dont care if it's true.It doesn't exist.
Something that May clearly hasn't learned yet is not to walk head-first into situations like this. Worse still, not to do so after giving the prankster every motive to be extra mean! I'm thinking the Disney fairies or My Little Pony but even that may be too predictable. I've got the feeling that Momo's must have some shirts from some really obscure animé that will make May appear a peer to all the stranger people with whom she doesn't want to have a conversation!
Yes, May was being mean but not really intentionally so. She's just got this abrasive way of expressing herself that always comes across as being personally abusive. What she was saying was: "Marigold, you and I both know that you've got some weird t-shirts. So, I am genuinely curious which ones are so weird that even you would give them away!" The problem is that she either she doesn't know how or simply doesn't care to put it in a nicer way!
At least now May will be able to enjoy clothes shopping. I wonder if the new chassis comes with some clothing store vouchers? This would likely be a common occurrence, where an AI ends up in a body that is a drastically different size from before. Happened to Momo and Winslow as well. Roko seemed to end up in one that was roughly the same size as her old one.
Something that May clearly hasn't learned yet is not to walk head-first into situations like this. Worse still, not to do so after giving the prankster every motive to be extra mean! I'm thinking the Disney fairies or My Little Pony but even that may be too predictable. I've got the feeling that Momo's must have some shirts from some really obscure animé that will make May appear a peer to all the stranger people with whom she doesn't want to have a conversation!
Yes, May was being mean but not really intentionally so. She's just got this abrasive way of expressing herself that always comes across as being personally abusive. What she was saying was: "Marigold, you and I both know that you've got some weird t-shirts. So, I am genuinely curious which ones are so weird that even you would give them away!" The problem is that she either she doesn't know how or simply doesn't care to put it in a nicer way!
She probably hasn’t even been in that chassis for 24 hours of coming time. We’ll have to see if it changes her once the “high” has worn off.
Lively debate about May's actions is all well and good, but please don't go throwing misogynist slurs on this forum.
I am always a bit aghast at how vociferously a subsection of folks in the WCDTs condemn almost everything May does. I have loathed her as a character for almost her entire existence, but she's also demonstrably a traumatised victim of the penal system.
I'm not saying May is or is not a nice person (mostly because I don't believe in that concept) but simply that... do you guys know anyone who has been traumatised? Who has been homeless? Who has been an addict? Who has been imprisoned? Who has been accused of being a sex offender, correctly or otherwise? Do you know what damage looks like?
I don't mean to imply that nobody could be so cruel about May, a fictional character, if they had met someone like her - if you have known people who have been through situations like the above and stand by this level of character judgement, then coolio, you do you, but we are different people.
Even removing the 'sentient being who has been through stuff' aspect of this, she has literally changed bodies. Changed her entire body. She is the same consciousness, but she is taller and a different shape and can do different things. I'm aware that as a sci-fi concept this is tremendously mundane, but take a second to consider what it might feel like if you reached to get something on a shelf and found that you had accidentally punched through the wall into your garden because your arms are six inches longer and five times stronger? That must be a headfuck and a half in a handbasket.
This is May being nice. In fact, I think that they have become comfortable enough with each other that this is a bit of banter being exchanged.
I'm not sure if anyone's noticed, but May has again been offered charity, and it is a sign of her progress since being gifted a new body that she is still able to accept it, albeit with a crack about how much of a nerd Marigold is.
What's more, I don't think that panel two represents someone who has been hurt or upset by what's been said.
She is having fun with this.
...You don't think "If you are going to be mean to me, I am not going to give you anything" is Marigold being upset and represented as upset, despite the words literally coming out of her mouth are "If you're going to be mean"?????
That's because May's joke changed from "Your tacky nerd shit is worthy of derision" to "I can pull off whatever look to throw my way". Now, leading panel 3 with a simple "sorry" would have vastly changed the tone of this strip, but May is still a work in progress.
Now, leading panel 3 with a simple "sorry" would have vastly changed the tone of this strip, but May is still a work in progress.Just the word "sorry" can turn any conversation around. I know far too many people who say something rude, get called on it, and instead of apologizing, cling desperately to the opinion that what they did was okay rather than admit any wrongdoing.
She probably hasn’t even been in that chassis for 24 hours of coming time. We’ll have to see if it changes her once the “high” has worn off.I'm guessing whatever Marigold produces, it'll knock May for a loo-loo and kick her out of jerk-mode.
She probably hasn’t even been in that chassis for 24 hours of coming time. We’ll have to see if it changes her once the “high” has worn off.
Have you considered the fact that most persons' actions are at least somewhat thought out, and that explaining the reason for one's actions is an appropriate response? That's exactly what May did. To legitimately believe May was `twisting' the conversation, you'd have to exclude the possibility that she meant it the way she said she meant it.Now, leading panel 3 with a simple "sorry" would have vastly changed the tone of this strip, but May is still a work in progress.Just the word "sorry" can turn any conversation around. I know far too many people who say something rude, get called on it, and instead of apologizing, cling desperately to the opinion that what they did was okay rather than admit any wrongdoing.
And in the last panel, the background turns dark...
I can hardly wait for the next strip. Which, were I Jeph, would be a Patreon exclusive.
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What I can't understand is how Momo considers May a friend. Maybe it's putting a bold face on necessity -- since they will be in each other's company a lot it's best to keep things civil. Or it could just be that Momo has more empathy than I do.
I should not have clicked the spoiler for the angry bird ahego picture.... :facepalm:
Under a spoiler tag.I should not have clicked the spoiler for the angry bird ahego picture.... :facepalm:
Errrrrh - apparently, I'm being slow? Where?
I should not have clicked the spoiler for the angry bird ahego picture.... :facepalm:
Errrrrh - apparently, I'm being slow? Where?
I should not have clicked the spoiler for the angry bird ahego picture.... :facepalm:
Errrrrh - apparently, I'm being slow? Where?
Don't look!
I looked, and I still don't get it.I should not have clicked the spoiler for the angry bird ahego picture.... :facepalm:
Errrrrh - apparently, I'm being slow? Where?
Don't look!
Click for explanation at your own risk.I looked, and I still don't get it.I should not have clicked the spoiler for the angry bird ahego picture.... :facepalm:
Errrrrh - apparently, I'm being slow? Where?
Don't look!