I plan to resign before I ever become important enough for them to want to throw me (specifically) a party at work*
the last three surprise parties we did for the upper guys were an embarrassment and I super wanted a closet of antisocialism for myself… unfortunately, that’s the file room
(the bathroom, for SOME REASON people go in there and TALK ON THE PHONE)
[to people who KNOW that the talker is IN THE BATHROOM]
*”what about a going-away party” luckily, the last folks who resigned, our office has been so disorganized that they just got to fuck off w/o any fanfare
I’ve discovered how to avoid celebrating my birthday at work. A few days before, the HR lady asks you what treat you’d like her to buy for everyone.
If you go for the obvious choice, cake, then they will drag you and everyone into the conference room at lunch and do the candles and sing the dreadful song and everything.
On the other hand if you ask for bagels or donuts, then they will put them out first thing in the morning before everyone arrives, and people just come by and help themselves throughout the day. No interrupting your workday for a gathering no one wants to attend, and no being sang at.
at my last paying job, the head manager and HR rep take everyone born that month out for a meal on a set day. For ease of accounting, if you’re on-duty that day, you clock out for lunch and get back-dated as having returned to work 30 minutes later, no matter how long the lunch runs.(Yes, there were people who end up finishing their shift at the lunch and have to roll back into work just to clock out.) My first year working there, everyone was deeply confused when I rolled up in my normal clothes instead of my work outfit, as I wasn’t scheduled that day, then ordered the ribs at a mexican joint.
You might as well ask, who is this Dr. Jekyll and what have they done with that nice Mr. Hyde?
Marsh Maryrose
I think you have the alignments reversed there. 🙂
I am wondering if the mysterious Sue Aside is lurking around somewhere.
LeslieBean4shizzle
… is “Sue Aside” claimed by anyone?
Cause I am seriously tempted to grab that one.
And not just because it would let me do the old Tiny Toons “no relation” joke.
JBento
Yes – it’s part of the Jen Aside/Ana Chronistic ensemble.
There’s a whole branch of the Aside family that hasn’t been claimed yet. Just off the top of my head, there’s Reg, Herb, Phil, and Pear, and there’s plenty more.
Marsh Maryrose
But whatever you do, don’t invite Phil Aside and Pear Aside to the same party.
Anyway, I’m under the impression that no one under the age of 40 gives a rats ass if they, or the person on the other end of the call, is in the bathroom.
I completely care if you are trying to talk to me while in the bathroom. I hate phones and really don’t want to hear you peeing/shitting/whatevering in the bathroom. I’d already be uncomfortable being on the phone, don’t really need to hear someone doing their business on the other end.
I watched more of that show than absolutely necessary when it was broadcast on over-the-air TV.
Marsh Maryrose
Young me watched that show the way that young Willis watched Transformers. I was absolutely the target audience.
anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
I wasn’t all that enamoured with that show.[has the corgies]
It was on the same level as stingray, joe90 and fireball was even lower on the list.
Now Captain Scarlet was awesome in my books at the time as was UFO and that one season of Space 1999.
[there was no second season, just like there was no Star Trek The Movie]
StClair
I’m a bit further along; UFO et al were before my time, but I loved 1999 as a kid, had an Eagle and everything.
Roborat
As did I, I have fond memories of my favourite toy, the Thunderbirds 2 toy, was a favourite possession for years.
Plot twist: she’s an undercover agent who knows Blaine may show up and is running a sting operation to arrest him for his mob connections. As soon as he and Toedad show up, she busts out the kung fu.
Or else she’s looking for moose and squirrel.
Man, I’m showing far too much awareness of sixties pop culture tonight. I’m not that old, I swear.
Geneseepaws
Was it upsie-dasium or unobtanium that Boris was after, Can’t remember?
Doctor_Who
It was upsie-dasium. Unobtainium is from Avatar.
Fascinating how the cheapo spy parody cartoon from 50 years ago and the mega blockbuster from 10 years ago gave an equal number of fucks about making the macguffin sound in any way real.
Bicycle Bill
I think the term “unobtainium” (alt spelling: unobtanium) predates “Avatar” by quite a bit.
thejeff
It’s been in use in engineering since the 50s and in science fiction about as long.
Shane Wegner
Agreed, the idea in Avatar was that the sassy brats who found the metal deliberately named it after the pre-existing term unobtanium because it actually had a lot of nearly impossible and valuable properties.
Engineering has been using it as a phrase for “we don’t have any material which can fulfill the requirements for tensile strength/conductivity/weight/etc at any price today, but who knows maybe will someday”.
It was, and it has. I think it was actually part of the outfit Willis used as a source, funny enough. There’s nothing but that model on the Tumblr, but IIRC he posted photos of the real jacket on Twitter around the same time.
I saw Grace mentioned, so I went back to the strip to look for the cameo of our favourite squirrel powered superhero, only to realize you were talking about someone else.
Dina plans to slowly replace more and more of the things in her dorm room with dinosaurs. Her bed is already gone, the chairs will be next, then the desks. The ceiling fan will be a spinning archaeopteryx, the light fixtures will be bulbs in the mouths of compsognathus, this will be the TV.
The last straw will be when Amber goes out as Amazi-Girl and realizes too late that she’s wearing a Barney costume.
On behalf of liberal weenie yuppie Satanic “America,” I take offense at your claim that I consume overpriced swill when my locally owned coffee shop is right there.
anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
What?
You aren’t a mass consumer of flavoured, sugared, oiled up carbonized coffee beans that were not even fit as an industrial source of insecticide?
AbelUndercity
Shhh! If the Starbucks Cops get wind of me they’ll drag me in to serve out a sentence of some “venti” milkshake monstrosity.
I thought America ran on a mix of converting fossil fuels into greenhouse gasses, exploitative labor practices, maximizing wealth disparity, and fantasies that all of those things are just fine.
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Jen Aside
I plan to resign before I ever become important enough for them to want to throw me (specifically) a party at work*
the last three surprise parties we did for the upper guys were an embarrassment and I super wanted a closet of antisocialism for myself… unfortunately, that’s the file room
(the bathroom, for SOME REASON people go in there and TALK ON THE PHONE)
[to people who KNOW that the talker is IN THE BATHROOM]
*”what about a going-away party” luckily, the last folks who resigned, our office has been so disorganized that they just got to fuck off w/o any fanfare
Doctor_Who
I’ve discovered how to avoid celebrating my birthday at work. A few days before, the HR lady asks you what treat you’d like her to buy for everyone.
If you go for the obvious choice, cake, then they will drag you and everyone into the conference room at lunch and do the candles and sing the dreadful song and everything.
On the other hand if you ask for bagels or donuts, then they will put them out first thing in the morning before everyone arrives, and people just come by and help themselves throughout the day. No interrupting your workday for a gathering no one wants to attend, and no being sang at.
Clif
I sense a market for singing doughnut candles.
Khyrin
at my last paying job, the head manager and HR rep take everyone born that month out for a meal on a set day. For ease of accounting, if you’re on-duty that day, you clock out for lunch and get back-dated as having returned to work 30 minutes later, no matter how long the lunch runs.(Yes, there were people who end up finishing their shift at the lunch and have to roll back into work just to clock out.) My first year working there, everyone was deeply confused when I rolled up in my normal clothes instead of my work outfit, as I wasn’t scheduled that day, then ordered the ribs at a mexican joint.
Jen Aside
Our office is too small for that, also our HR is in a different state (NJ, we’re Delmarva)
Marsh Maryrose
Who is this “Jen Aside” and what has she done with Ana Chronistic?
Clif
You might as well ask, who is this Dr. Jekyll and what have they done with that nice Mr. Hyde?
Marsh Maryrose
I think you have the alignments reversed there. 🙂
I am wondering if the mysterious Sue Aside is lurking around somewhere.
LeslieBean4shizzle
… is “Sue Aside” claimed by anyone?
Cause I am seriously tempted to grab that one.
And not just because it would let me do the old Tiny Toons “no relation” joke.
JBento
Yes – it’s part of the Jen Aside/Ana Chronistic ensemble.
Sue Aside
o hi
JBento
*waves*
BarerMender
Jen Aside. I just now got it.
Marsh Maryrose
There’s a whole branch of the Aside family that hasn’t been claimed yet. Just off the top of my head, there’s Reg, Herb, Phil, and Pear, and there’s plenty more.
Marsh Maryrose
But whatever you do, don’t invite Phil Aside and Pear Aside to the same party.
Jen Aside
off the cuff:
Amb, Basil, Bi, Caan, Christ, Dee, Eek, Fam, Fell, Flor, Gaine, Herb, Herp, Herr, Host, Jen, Jerm, Louse, Luke, Mareet, Pére, Pest, Phil, Ratte, Reg, Scab, Sen, Set, Site, Soarer, Spurm, Sue, Tairan, Tar, Veer, Zarr
Jen Aside
come to think of it, I DID put Pére and Phil in the same party
Rabid Rabbit
Really? Your file room is full of Randroids?
Sorry, sorry. I was just too amused at the thought of an anti-socialism closet, as opposed to an anti-sociability closet.
Marsh Maryrose
Anyway, I’m under the impression that no one under the age of 40 gives a rats ass if they, or the person on the other end of the call, is in the bathroom.
sidehack
Once again I am happy to be an exception.
Diane
I completely care if you are trying to talk to me while in the bathroom. I hate phones and really don’t want to hear you peeing/shitting/whatevering in the bathroom. I’d already be uncomfortable being on the phone, don’t really need to hear someone doing their business on the other end.
Doctor_Who
I’m trying to figure out what Grace’s outfit is. She sort of looks like she’s wearing a jumpsuit over a white turtleneck? With a nametag?
Is she a 1960s spy / aviatrix / stewardess?
ValdVin
Thunderbirds cosplay.
Doctor_Who
She does sort of have Lady Penelope vibes, doesn’t she?
Marsh Maryrose
I didn’t understand until you named Lady Penelope, but Valdvin absolutely nailed it.
ValdVin
I watched more of that show than absolutely necessary when it was broadcast on over-the-air TV.
Marsh Maryrose
Young me watched that show the way that young Willis watched Transformers. I was absolutely the target audience.
anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
I wasn’t all that enamoured with that show.[has the corgies]
It was on the same level as stingray, joe90 and fireball was even lower on the list.
Now Captain Scarlet was awesome in my books at the time as was UFO and that one season of Space 1999.
[there was no second season, just like there was no Star Trek The Movie]
StClair
I’m a bit further along; UFO et al were before my time, but I loved 1999 as a kid, had an Eagle and everything.
Roborat
As did I, I have fond memories of my favourite toy, the Thunderbirds 2 toy, was a favourite possession for years.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
She looks like either a Fed trying to infiltrate, or maybe a crosstime spy.
Doctor_Who
Plot twist: she’s an undercover agent who knows Blaine may show up and is running a sting operation to arrest him for his mob connections. As soon as he and Toedad show up, she busts out the kung fu.
Or else she’s looking for moose and squirrel.
Man, I’m showing far too much awareness of sixties pop culture tonight. I’m not that old, I swear.
Geneseepaws
Was it upsie-dasium or unobtanium that Boris was after, Can’t remember?
Doctor_Who
It was upsie-dasium. Unobtainium is from Avatar.
Fascinating how the cheapo spy parody cartoon from 50 years ago and the mega blockbuster from 10 years ago gave an equal number of fucks about making the macguffin sound in any way real.
Bicycle Bill
I think the term “unobtainium” (alt spelling: unobtanium) predates “Avatar” by quite a bit.
thejeff
It’s been in use in engineering since the 50s and in science fiction about as long.
Shane Wegner
Agreed, the idea in Avatar was that the sassy brats who found the metal deliberately named it after the pre-existing term unobtanium because it actually had a lot of nearly impossible and valuable properties.
Engineering has been using it as a phrase for “we don’t have any material which can fulfill the requirements for tensile strength/conductivity/weight/etc at any price today, but who knows maybe will someday”.
Needfuldoer
I think it’s just a yellow stripe, not a name tag.
Found the character model for it on the DoA Tumblr.
Deanatay
The yellow stripe was an unofficial symbol for SEMME in the Walkyverse, IIRC. It’s leaked over into the Dumbiverse a couple of times.
Bicycle Bill
Yeah, Sal had it on her swimsuit when the group took off to Lake Monroe. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/acumen/
Needfuldoer
It was, and it has. I think it was actually part of the outfit Willis used as a source, funny enough. There’s nothing but that model on the Tumblr, but IIRC he posted photos of the real jacket on Twitter around the same time.
FacelessDeviant
Whatever it is, its damn cool!
Ryek Hvek
What first came to mind was Tony Daytona from the Luann comic strip
JBento
I’m thinking race car driver.
Roborat
I saw Grace mentioned, so I went back to the strip to look for the cameo of our favourite squirrel powered superhero, only to realize you were talking about someone else.
Stephen Bierce
I wonder what the decor is.
Doctor_Who
Dina plans to slowly replace more and more of the things in her dorm room with dinosaurs. Her bed is already gone, the chairs will be next, then the desks. The ceiling fan will be a spinning archaeopteryx, the light fixtures will be bulbs in the mouths of compsognathus, this will be the TV.
The last straw will be when Amber goes out as Amazi-Girl and realizes too late that she’s wearing a Barney costume.
Chris Phoenix
No, the light fixtures will be lambeosaurs breathing flame.
(…Just kidding!)
StClair
“It’s a living.”
Danielle
ruth runs on gay now
Deathjavu
It’s also a renewable resource like spite, but with none of the toxic emissions! The future of energy.
Danielle
being gay is good for the environment
Joe Moose
I thought America runs on Starbucks nowadays.
Bicycle Bill
America runs on Dunkin’.
butts
fruit flies run on a banana wait what
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Liberal weenie yuppie satanic atheist “America” runs on Starbucks.
Real America runs on Dunkin’
AbelUndercity
On behalf of liberal weenie yuppie Satanic “America,” I take offense at your claim that I consume overpriced swill when my locally owned coffee shop is right there.
anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
What?
You aren’t a mass consumer of flavoured, sugared, oiled up carbonized coffee beans that were not even fit as an industrial source of insecticide?
AbelUndercity
Shhh! If the Starbucks Cops get wind of me they’ll drag me in to serve out a sentence of some “venti” milkshake monstrosity.
Reltzik
I thought America ran on a mix of converting fossil fuels into greenhouse gasses, exploitative labor practices, maximizing wealth disparity, and fantasies that all of those things are just fine.
plasticwrap
You forgot the arms manufacturing.
Reltzik
Oops, yes, how silly of me. And probably a dozen other things. All of which synthesize so perfectly with the fantasies that none of it’s a problem.
Keulen
And a shitty healthcare system.
StClair
Our five weapons are…
Needfuldoer
Starburnt coffee.
We run on fahkin Dunks heah, ked!
anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
Ah, if only there were those olde tyme Timmies instead of the abomination that it has become under the direction of 3G Capital
StClair
“Actually, I totally can.”
lawoot
So where’s Mandy? I see Dorothy in the background…
Reltzik
Panel 2, next to Grace. Joyce is upstaging her.
(Yes, I just used upstage in a figurative sense when she is actually downstaging Mandy instead. Bite me.)
ValdVin
Turn in your megaphone, jodhpurs, and beret, stat. You’ll never direct in this town again!
RacingTurtle
Dorothy’s tag fell off! She needs to turn around and put it back on
abysswatcher1993