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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: shanejayell on 03 Oct 2021, 18:34
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Hey it's uhm... what's his name! And his girlfriend. And not-Pintsize.
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Is Pintsize wearing a skirt, or does he have a towel wrapped around his hips? Either way: nice colours.
Claire isn't wrong here. Finances are OK now, but as soon as someone moves out the entire house of cards will come crashing down. Would it be better if Marten started looking for another job (he wants a career change anyway) so that Claire can get his? They'd have to run it past Tai first, but I don't see her refusing Claire the position.
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:lol: I love the way Marten and Claire are both utterly ignoring Pintsize - at this point, I imagine it's sort of like ignoring long-term tinnitus - annoying, but you get used to it.
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Marten, take it from me - there is nothing you can say that will make a dent in anxiety like that.
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:lol: I love the way Marten and Claire are both utterly ignoring Pintsize - at this point, I imagine it's sort of like ignoring long-term tinnitus - annoying, but you get used to it.
Giving Pintsize the benefit of the (very limited) doubt; he might be attempting to shake Martin and Claire out of their anxiety.
For all of his talk, I can only recall one example of Pintsize ever being intimate with anyone - who completely rejected him after Pintsize misgendered him.
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Nope, sorry, the 'new Pintsize' is still wrong.
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Gotta admit, I had no idea who Pintsize was for a bit. At first I thought he was Winslow, but then realised he was the wrong colour.
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Is Pintsize wearing a skirt, or does he have a towel wrapped around his hips? Either way: nice colours.
Claire isn't wrong here. Finances are OK now, but as soon as someone moves out the entire house of cards will come crashing down. Would it be better if Marten started looking for another job (he wants a career change anyway) so that Claire can get his? They'd have to run it past Tai first, but I don't see her refusing Claire the position.
All it takes is one hospital stay to really rack up the bills.
(thank God the government always owes me money on my tax return)
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There are two outcomes to the Claire's post-graduation job that I can see at the moment:
- She becomes the equivalent of Roko in Beepatrice's office (possibly including managing the test data archives)
- She gets a junior librarian's job at Miskatonic College with all that implies.
Meanwhile, I'm wondering if Pintsize is aware that they're just ignoring him or if that doesn't matter because saying it at them is all that he needs for personal fulfillment!
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Hey it's uhm... what's his name!
Its at the tip of my tongue ...
Any minute now ...
Dammit !
All it takes is one hospital stay to really rack up the bills.
:(
In the USA, sadly yes.
Frankly I have no clue why anybody is still living in that country. You have a perfectly fine Canada just to the north of you. They speak the same language (okay, plus French), they have a good social state, they are so much more, sorry, civilized ... what keeps you in the USA ? I'd be in such a hurry to leave if I would have to live there.
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Is Pintsize wearing a skirt, or does he have a towel wrapped around his hips? Either way: nice colours.
Not only that but a pearl necklace as well. Some interesting fashion choices there!
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Is Pintsize wearing a skirt, or does he have a towel wrapped around his hips? Either way: nice colours.
Not only that but a pearl necklace as well. Some interesting fashion choices there!
This is still Pintsize we're talking about here. Whatever he wears, you can be sure he's doing it to shock and offend.
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Now that's what a new chassis is for!
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There are two outcomes to the Claire's post-graduation job that I can see at the moment:
- She becomes the equivalent of Roko in Beepatrice's office (possibly including managing the test data archives)
- She gets a junior librarian's job at Miskatonic College with all that implies.
Meanwhile, I'm wondering if Pintsize is aware that they're just ignoring him or if that doesn't matter because saying it at them is all that he needs for personal fulfillment!
Yeah, I love your second idea. Eldritch horror mixed into QC would be so great!
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P-please stop pushing bizarre, dangerous sex acts so hard, Pintsize.
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The art style looks different - their eyes are smaller. I like it. :-)
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Hey it's uhm... what's his name!
Its at the tip of my tongue ...
Any minute now ...
Dammit !
All it takes is one hospital stay to really rack up the bills.
:(
In the USA, sadly yes.
Frankly I have no clue why anybody is still living in that country. You have a perfectly fine Canada just to the north of you. They speak the same language (okay, plus French), they have a good social state, they are so much more, sorry, civilized ... what keeps you in the USA ? I'd be in such a hurry to leave if I would have to live there.
You can get broken by a long hospitalization in Canada, too. Not by the bills, granted, but by not being able to do your job.
And it's pretty much guaranteed you'll be waiting a lot longer for everything, to boot. Six months to see a specialist for anything that's not top-tier "patient will die if not seen soon" stuff is pretty normal.
There's a reason Canadians who can afford it go to the US for medical care, after all...
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I’ve known people who would have happily kilt someone making a joke like in todays comic.
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Am I the only one who thought Pintsize was wearing a towel?
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Frankly I have no clue why anybody is still living in that country. You have a perfectly fine Canada just to the north of you. They speak the same language (okay, plus French), they have a good social state, they are so much more, sorry, civilized ... what keeps you in the USA ? I'd be in such a hurry to leave if I would have to live there.
Warmer weather.
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Booo hisss....
What was Marten doing pre-library anyway? I vaguely remember a office supplies thing...
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One day, Marten will come home to discover Clairesize.
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That pun felt so right, but was just sarong.
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Sarong puns? Kim-oh-no…
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Making choices is hard, can't skirt around that issue. Life's too skort.
Am I the only one who thought Pintsize was wearing a towel?
Nope, I did too.
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Booo hisss....
What was Marten doing pre-library anyway? I vaguely remember a office supplies thing...
Gofer in an office:
https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=448
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Not even bad.
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Sarong puns? Kim-oh-no…
No, it's sa-right pun :-D
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I'm trying to decide whether it's a good thing or a bad thing for Marten that Claire and Pintsize have decided that they have the same sense of humour.
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Hey it's uhm... what's his name!
Its at the tip of my tongue ...
Any minute now ...
Dammit !
All it takes is one hospital stay to really rack up the bills.
:(
In the USA, sadly yes.
Frankly I have no clue why anybody is still living in that country. You have a perfectly fine Canada just to the north of you. They speak the same language (okay, plus French), they have a good social state, they are so much more, sorry, civilized ... what keeps you in the USA ? I'd be in such a hurry to leave if I would have to live there.
Finances mostly. I can't afford to move that far.
EDIT: Not to mention the weather. Y'all have some pretty vicious winters.
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Marten, take it from me - there is nothing you can say that will make a dent in anxiety like that.
It seems horrible puns can, however.
something something worse than the disease.
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In the end, all fashions die, but the sarong remains the same.
[High-fives Claire and then runs for the door]
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The necklace is there to lead into another pun. Wait for it...
3.. 2.. 1..
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Where are the Pun Police when you need them?
http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=53
http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=268
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The necklace is there to lead into another pun. Wait for it...
3.. 2.. 1..
I've been avoiding mentioning the pearl necklace.
Claire and Martin are out of the anxiety spiral now.
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P-please stop pushing bizarre, dangerous sex acts so hard, Pintsize.
Pintside: Speaking of pushing things dangerously hard...
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New comic.
Dale is going to be on Marigold's payroll? I'm not sure if that's such a good idea...
Pintside: Speaking of pushing things dangerously hard...
This mental image made me physically flinch.
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New comic.
Dale is going to be on Marigold's payroll? I'm not sure if that's such a good idea...
Pintside: Speaking of pushing things dangerously hard...
This mental image made me physically flinch.
Does he has experience with web stuff
And many celebrities have their other side work for them.
Big ones like jeremy Clarkson and small ones like total biscuit
Also good way to be tax effective.
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The necklace is there to lead into another pun. Wait for it...
3.. 2.. 1..
Every time I try to come up with a relevant pun, I choke up. Grant us a pearl of your wisdom. I don’t want to stick my neck out for a bad pun here.
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New comic.
Dale is going to be on Marigold's payroll? I'm not sure if that's such a good idea...
Mixing work and relationships is rarely a good idea.....
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New comic.
Dale is going to be on Marigold's payroll? I'm not sure if that's such a good idea...
Pintside: Speaking of pushing things dangerously hard...
This mental image made me physically flinch.
I'm guessing he refers to the beads as his balls.
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the good news would be that even if Marigold viewership falls to the point is not profitable, everyone would go out with marketable skills to sell elsewhere so the risk is probably worth it. Also they seem to be very serious about taking care of the money entering so it last for a long time
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Dale-us ex machina?
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Hey it's uhm... what's his name!
Its at the tip of my tongue ...
Any minute now ...
Dammit !
All it takes is one hospital stay to really rack up the bills.
:(
In the USA, sadly yes.
Frankly I have no clue why anybody is still living in that country. You have a perfectly fine Canada just to the north of you. They speak the same language (okay, plus French), they have a good social state, they are so much more, sorry, civilized ... what keeps you in the USA ? I'd be in such a hurry to leave if I would have to live there.
I don’t think Canada would accept a huge influx of immigrants from the US. Or we’d have to have specific skills for jobs that were hard to fill.
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Oh, how disappointing. This is going to be resolved the boring way.
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Par for the course these days. Even Jeph's best stories (Bubbles/Faye/Corpse Witch story, Alice Grove) have had abrupt, unsatisfying resolutions. I wonder what other long-running stories will be resolved by Marigold's cash reserves.
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If this goes through (and, on reflection, it's unfair to Jeph to presume that we already know whether Claire will go for this), one thing that we potentially can look forward to is the resumption of the Claire/Emily double-act.
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Ah, if only we all had a boyfriend who could pull strings and get us a job just when someone conveniently happens to quit from that job... :cry:
Also, I'm surprised Dora hasn't put two and two together by now; she knows Marigold is a huge nerd, a gamer, spends a lot of time on the internet. If it's not nudes, then it's probably streaming.
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Hey it's uhm... what's his name!
Its at the tip of my tongue ...
Any minute now ...
Dammit !
All it takes is one hospital stay to really rack up the bills.
:(
In the USA, sadly yes.
Frankly I have no clue why anybody is still living in that country. You have a perfectly fine Canada just to the north of you. They speak the same language (okay, plus French), they have a good social state, they are so much more, sorry, civilized ... what keeps you in the USA ? I'd be in such a hurry to leave if I would have to live there.
I don’t think Canada would accept a huge influx of immigrants from the US. Or we’d have to have specific skills for jobs that were hard to fill.
As it is, to get permanent residency in Canada as an American you have to have useful skills. The permanent residency system is based on a score that depends on things like what skills you have, what languages you speak, what connections you have to Canada, etc. I was able to get a work permit in Canada because I had a job offer as a physicist here. I have to wait until next year to apply for permanent residency, though, because right now my score is too low (your score goes up if you’ve been in Canada more than a year). So yeah, it’s not exactly trivial.
Anyway, puns… I guess if you’re just visiting, you may pull seeing Europe off, but there’s no poutine if you don’t meet the requirements to stay.
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Also, I'm surprised Dora hasn't put two and two together by now; she knows Marigold is a huge nerd, a gamer, spends a lot of time on the internet. If it's not nudes, then it's probably streaming.
Streaming just isn't on some people's radar.
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My impression was that Marigold worked on a professional basis, with clients other than her father. I don't recall any indication that Dale can do web stuff.
The wonderful thing about tools like Joomla is that people can don't need to know HTML to make web sites. The horrifying thing about tools like Joomla is people are making websites without knowing HTML.
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Marigold is more than capable of putting her own website together. I get the feeling that Dale's 'web stuff' is more along the lines of chat moderation etc, and maybe website upkeep? Once the basic structure of the site is up, keeping the content fresh isn't a hard job.
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Marigold is more than capable of putting her own website together. I get the feeling that Dale's 'web stuff' is more along the lines of chat moderation etc, and maybe website upkeep? Once the basic structure of the site is up, keeping the content fresh isn't a hard job.
Yeah, this; chat moderation especially but publishing articles and general site maintenance, as well as maybe some email screening, plus he can learn the backend stuff on the job relatively easily. Not impossible that they have a forum similar to this one too. Never mind the nearly inevitable FaceSpace page and other social media presence.
Some people might argue that all comes under May’s job title; I say only if she’s paid twice as much and fully prepared to give up what little social life she currently has.
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Comic up. Poor Claire looks SO anxious.
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Laughs in working in a bank despite having a degree in physics.
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Claire wants to make sure that Dora really, REALLY knows what she's getting into.
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I'm wondering at what stage Marten realises he needs to quit so Claire can get the job at the Uni library and the first job for her CV...
Marten can learn to barista for a while. Once Claire has found the next rung on the ladder, he can shift back...
Although how many libraries are within living distance of there, not many....
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I'm wondering at what stage Marten realises he needs to quit so Claire can get the job at the Uni library and the first job for her CV...
You DO realize there's no way to know that Claire would get Marten's job if he quit? There may be other applicants before her.
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True, but Tai is pretty easygoing, so if Marten goes: "I quit, please hire Claire" she'd probably just shrug and do it. She knows Claire since she was an intern and at least she's a fully licensed librarian, as opposed to Marten.
Btw, I like the perspective on the 2nd panel.
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She has already interned at that library, so I'm not sure how taking Marten's position would enhance her CV.
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"it's dried and ground moths"
Nah, it's spiders - ever since Hannelore has been cleaning out the grinder roaster, regular patrons of CoD have been pining for Dora's spider-blend coffee...
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I really don't get this multiply-repeated idea that Marten needs to quit his position to open one up for Claire. I can only assume it's out of a desire to create a conflict in their relationship (which I don't get either). Claire wants to be a librarian. Marten's job is more towards the admin end and would have almost none of the specialised stuff that Claire wants to practice. She'd find it frustrating (especially working under Tai, whose attitude she hates) and unfulfilling.
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You DO realize there's no way to know that Claire would get Marten's job if he quit? There may be other applicants before her.
I DO realize that it's up to Tai (in comic) to make that hiring decision and that Marten would only quit if it was already agreed Claire would get the job. She's completely qualified etc so she's actually a much more suitable applicant than Marten.
Claire has already interned there but "intern" verses "assistant librarian" or whatever the job title is are very different on a CV. If she wants to become a librarian, she actually needs a position exactly like Martens.
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Claire has already interned there but "intern" verses "assistant librarian" or whatever the job title is are very different on a CV.
Not really, no.
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Here's some jobs that I think would work for Claire:
1) The Beepatrice Conundrum
Claire gets that job at the sex toy test lab. She doesn't get involved with the product testing but that doesn't stop Pintsize bothering her for 'free samples' or even stuff from the reject bin. This isn't the job she wants but there is a curiously high degree of skill commonality. This is especially the case with keeping the chaotic test records properly organised. As well as having Beepatrice as a common co-star, we can have Marten's reaction. Either he's always startled at Claire suddenly bringing up 'business' matters in weird contexts ("Did you know that they test these things for the ability to resist gunfire?") or he finds that he is actually a voice of experience ("Oh yeah! Mom actually has a collection of those!")
Beeps ends up calling Claire 'boss' and admits that she's relieved to have someone in the office who is 'take charge'.
2) The Crawling Chaos
Claire is literally the only applicant for a junior librarian job at Tisamonic University (an expy of Miskatonic, renamed to avoid copyright issues with the Lovecraft estate). It's a dream job - dealing with antique books, some of which are more valuable than the apartment's yearly lease value. However, the students are... weird. The running joke is that the characters are all very obviously the various Dark Gods and other eldrich abominations. They look human but their conversation often outs them. I think that this would be a lovely chance to use the parodies from Hello Cthulhu - Angry and ineffectual Cthulhu, depressive Dagon and alcoholic The Colour From Space. Oh, and Cthulhu's GF Kitty, who is a gothy catgirl domme.
Then there's the books themselves, some of which are bound in human skin, a few are written in blood, and some actually eat ink and write themselves over time. Depending on how you'd want to handle it, maybe Willow is a student there on one of the university's unique courses and has a personal relationship with a few of the more alarming tomes in general. ("Whoa! Claire! Did you know we can make peach trees whose fruits function as Death Notes?" or "Claire, The Chronicles of the Daeva say that it can give you all you want in exchange for a pint of blood. Do you think that's a good deal?")
3) Small Town Library
This the lowest energy and yet, paradoxically, the most interesting.
Claire gets a job as the head (and only) librarian for a small institution in the area around Northampton/Amhurst. It's a fairly small municipal library with a tiny budget, which is why Claire got the job. They needed someone now and they needed someone cheap. Her only co-worker is an unembodied AI who runs the catalogue and online presence. She gets a couple of weeks' training from the outgoing librarian who is old, in a hurry to leave and generally difficult to get along with because he just wants Claire to take over now so he can get on with his retirement.
Basically, the setting is just support for a lot of small-town in-jokes and stereotypes who come in and Claire has to work out what (if any) kind of book they want. More seriously, Claire's "Libraries are Srs Business" mantra is tested by working at an institution that doesn't have money and whose ultimate management chain don't care. Does she bring books home to rebind and clean up? Does she vent to Marten? Does the core cast end up helping with fund-raising (naturally Pintsize suggests a bikini car-wash and makes it clear that he wants to be part of the team).
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Claire has already interned there but "intern" verses "assistant librarian" or whatever the job title is are very different on a CV.
Not really, no.
So job title doesn't matter at all, only where you work? You intern at a company, that's identical to having years of experience there doing a different job?
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Claire has already interned there but "intern" verses "assistant librarian" or whatever the job title is are very different on a CV.
Not really, no.
So job title doesn't matter at all, only where you work?
Believe it or not, job recruiters are a lot more interested in what you actually did in a job than they are in the job title. So being an "intern" is not going to be "very different on a CV" from an "assistant librarian" if they both basically involve being a dogsbody.
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She has already interned at that library, so I'm not sure how taking Marten's position would enhance her CV.
^This. Let's not forget that Marten's job is not an actual librarian position or even close to it. It would be like taking a lab technician position when you're trying to become a professor with your own lab at a university. It's just not going to do anything for your chances.
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I get the feeling that Jeph has writte himself a bit into a corner with Claires jobsearch. Where in the comicuniverse would she get a "real" job for her qualification - without moving and thus leaving the comic ?
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hm, well, generally speaking every town tends to have a library, plus there are multiple unis and colleges in the surrounding area, especially if you expand it to up to 1 hour drive.
I personally think eventually there will be a shift in jobs occurring with Claire eventually ending up at Smif though.
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One thing about today’s strip; the “drink” that Dora was assembling: look at the difference in levels in that jar between panels one and two - it’s nearly halfway up the cap at the start and quite a bit closer to the bottom at the end. That’s a lot of whatever that was; did Dora just serve espresso paste?
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I like the tattoo on the arm of the random customer. It looks like she couldn't decide on what she wanted, so she told to artist to just scribble something.
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One thing about today’s strip; the “drink” that Dora was assembling: look at the difference in levels in that jar between panels one and two - it’s nearly halfway up the cap at the start and quite a bit closer to the bottom at the end. That’s a lot of whatever that was; did Dora just serve espresso paste?
Small drink in a large cup?
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One thing about today’s strip; the “drink” that Dora was assembling: look at the difference in levels in that jar between panels one and two - it’s nearly halfway up the cap at the start and quite a bit closer to the bottom at the end. That’s a lot of whatever that was; did Dora just serve espresso paste?
Small drink in a large cup?
Sure, but that was the sugar she was pouring and given the typical size of one of those dispensers, she added something north of fifteen teaspoons, which is more volume than an espresso on its own. So it was probably more like coffee flavoured sugar by the end.
I mean, fine if that’s what the customer wanted, it just seems highly unusual.
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I have seen people do it. There was one regular at a place I worked who used so much, the sugar thing had to be refilled right after she left.
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I think reading this just gave me a cavity.
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New comic.
So.... expresso machines explode? :-o
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Yes, espresso machines explode.
( google is our friend )
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RIP, Mister Burny.
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Dora had it right the first time.
"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow."
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I suppose that it's an indication of how tight the staffing situation is at CoD that Dora wants Claire to start now, even though she's still in her interview clothes. I just wonder how she'll look in the 'college student casual' that seems to be the uniform at the shop? Or does Emily still have some of those super-suits she made?
So.... expresso machines explode? :-o
This one especially. There is some indication that it is an eldritch entity with a short temper and an insatiable desire for worship.
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She has already interned at that library, so I'm not sure how taking Marten's position would enhance her CV.
^This. Let's not forget that Marten's job is not an actual librarian position or even close to it. It would be like taking a lab technician position when you're trying to become a professor with your own lab at a university. It's just not going to do anything for your chances.
That's not the best analogy because a lot of PhD students actually do lab tech work while doing their PhD's. And then after. Friend of mine from my Physics days got a doctorate and was still assisting labs and stuff for years alongside his research.
You think they go straight to running their own labs after graduating?
I have hired people. There is a huge difference when I look at a CV it I see a 3 month internship or a couple of years of experience. And yes: intern verses assistant librarian or whatever Marten's job title is (or could be....there's often flexibility there) also matters.
This isn't controversial. Length of experience and job titles matter. Claire won't have picked up everything she could have learnt in a small internship.
Imagine in 2 years these two statements.
1) "After graduating I worked in a coffee shop for the last two years, I am applying for this job as a librarian because...."
2) "After graduating Smif hired me to join their library team, where I have been for the last two years. I am applying for this job as a librarian because...."
One of those applicants is more likely to get the position.
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It's pointless to argue because the point is moot -- if Claire really wanted Marten's position, I'm sure she would have it by now.
I'll just point out that we are in agreement that length of experience matters. Obviously.
And where she gets further experience is completely up to Claire.
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Here's some jobs that I think would work for Claire:
1) The Beepatrice Conundrum
Claire gets that job at the sex toy test lab. She doesn't get involved with the product testing but that doesn't stop Pintsize bothering her for 'free samples' or even stuff from the reject bin. This isn't the job she wants but there is a curiously high degree of skill commonality. This is especially the case with keeping the chaotic test records properly organised. As well as having Beepatrice as a common co-star, we can have Marten's reaction. Either he's always startled at Claire suddenly bringing up 'business' matters in weird contexts ("Did you know that they test these things for the ability to resist gunfire?") or he finds that he is actually a voice of experience ("Oh yeah! Mom actually has a collection of those!")
Beeps ends up calling Claire 'boss' and admits that she's relieved to have someone in the office who is 'take charge'.
2) The Crawling Chaos
Claire is literally the only applicant for a junior librarian job at Tisamonic University (an expy of Miskatonic, renamed to avoid copyright issues with the Lovecraft estate). It's a dream job - dealing with antique books, some of which are more valuable than the apartment's yearly lease value. However, the students are... weird. The running joke is that the characters are all very obviously the various Dark Gods and other eldrich abominations. They look human but their conversation often outs them. I think that this would be a lovely chance to use the parodies from Hello Cthulhu - Angry and ineffectual Cthulhu, depressive Dagon and alcoholic The Colour From Space. Oh, and Cthulhu's GF Kitty, who is a gothy catgirl domme.
Then there's the books themselves, some of which are bound in human skin, a few are written in blood, and some actually eat ink and write themselves over time. Depending on how you'd want to handle it, maybe Willow is a student there on one of the university's unique courses and has a personal relationship with a few of the more alarming tomes in general. ("Whoa! Claire! Did you know we can make peach trees whose fruits function as Death Notes?" or "Claire, The Chronicles of the Daeva say that it can give you all you want in exchange for a pint of blood. Do you think that's a good deal?")
3) Small Town Library
This the lowest energy and yet, paradoxically, the most interesting.
Claire gets a job as the head (and only) librarian for a small institution in the area around Northampton/Amhurst. It's a fairly small municipal library with a tiny budget, which is why Claire got the job. They needed someone now and they needed someone cheap. Her only co-worker is an unembodied AI who runs the catalogue and online presence. She gets a couple of weeks' training from the outgoing librarian who is old, in a hurry to leave and generally difficult to get along with because he just wants Claire to take over now so he can get on with his retirement.
Basically, the setting is just support for a lot of small-town in-jokes and stereotypes who come in and Claire has to work out what (if any) kind of book they want. More seriously, Claire's "Libraries are Srs Business" mantra is tested by working at an institution that doesn't have money and whose ultimate management chain don't care. Does she bring books home to rebind and clean up? Does she vent to Marten? Does the core cast end up helping with fund-raising (naturally Pintsize suggests a bikini car-wash and makes it clear that he wants to be part of the team).
4) School Librarian
Be it elementary (primary), middle (secondary), or high school; they all need librarians.
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New comic.
So.... expresso machines explode? :-o
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1258 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1258)
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She has already interned at that library, so I'm not sure how taking Marten's position would enhance her CV.
^This. Let's not forget that Marten's job is not an actual librarian position or even close to it. It would be like taking a lab technician position when you're trying to become a professor with your own lab at a university. It's just not going to do anything for your chances.
That's not the best analogy because a lot of PhD students actually do lab tech work while doing their PhD's. And then after. Friend of mine from my Physics days got a doctorate and was still assisting labs and stuff for years alongside his research.
You think they go straight to running their own labs after graduating?
I have hired people. There is a huge difference when I look at a CV it I see a 3 month internship or a couple of years of experience. And yes: intern verses assistant librarian or whatever Marten's job title is (or could be....there's often flexibility there) also matters.
This isn't controversial. Length of experience and job titles matter. Claire won't have picked up everything she could have learnt in a small internship.
Imagine in 2 years these two statements.
1) "After graduating I worked in a coffee shop for the last two years, I am applying for this job as a librarian because...."
2) "After graduating Smif hired me to join their library team, where I have been for the last two years. I am applying for this job as a librarian because...."
One of those applicants is more likely to get the position.
I come from academia and did a postdoc, considering an academic career before switching careers, so yes, I am intimately familiar with how it generally goes.
But perhaps I should’ve been more specific; lab tech work itself is not an issue, but what I meant was taking a fulltime lab tech position after graduating with a PhD ( or after a first postdoc stint, so you will). If you are serious about getting a professor position, it’s not going to help you, because you’d be expected to do postdocs and get first author publications.
As a side hustle, sure, or maybe very briefly when trying to find your first postdoc position, but otherwise it won’t help
I do agree wholeheartedly with your last part though, that its still better than at a coffee shop for your chances
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I've been reading QC since forever and rarely commented but here goes.
I need to know how Jeph can be so consistently funny, insightful, thoughtful, and inventive day after day. I read other strips and sometimes they are great and sometimes awful but I look forward to QC every day and I am NEVER disappointed. It's magic. Jeph, promise us that you will keep doing this until the day you die, which hopefully will be after I die or that you will raise your children to carry on the QC legacy.
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This one especially. There is some indication that it is an eldritch entity with a short temper...
You'd be a little short-tempered too if Bubs threatened you with that concrete saw...
Or Faye wanted to weld a spoiler to your back-side and paint some flames on it...
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I do agree wholeheartedly with your last part though, that its still better than at a coffee shop for your chances
I sincerely hope that Claire will not be working at that coffee shop for two years. And the same would go if she'd taken Marten's job, a position requiring no qualifications to speak of, and which can teach Claire little more. She needs to work for someone who is going to offer her more challenge and opportunity than Tai ever will.
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She kinda needs Tai’s job, really. But what even was Tai’s major anyway?
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She kinda needs Tai’s job, really. But what even was Tai’s major anyway?
Not even Tai knows for sure. She was too blitzed out of her skull on dope for too long at college to remember most of what happened during her student years.