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Dammit. The name of this strip keeps fooling me.
Why would someone program sentient life to be neurotic? The true god question
Per Murderbot: "So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects."
Zlataaaaa just embrace it.
Personally I hope she switches back to her old body. I think she was cuter that way and it fit her character better too :-)
Was this a reference to http://www.mnftiu.cc/category/filing/ ? "My New Filing Technique Is Unstoppable"
You are correct Zlata, actions do have consequences. However, the consequences for YOUR actions are generally not yours to define.
I hope Zlata keeps the body. She seems to really want it, but not believe she deserves it, and that's a shitty feeling.
Hey. We now have a cute girl who is also a robot who is also in love with Marten. And snow. Lots of snow. Talk about playing the long game. https://www.questionablecontent.net/comics/439.png
Incredible callback 😄
MFTIU!?! Brilliant! I salute you!!!
http://www.mnftiu.cc/category/fighting/
I'm curious. Given how easy it seems to be for her to swap body, couldn't she just swap back, and if there's even more regrets there, do it again? It does not seem that the experience was that traumatic, unlike with Roko.
DON'T FORGET: YOU'RE HERE FOREVER.
It's a living.😒
Nobody ever needed paperwork to fire me. They'd just come up to me and say "GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!"
"You can't fire yourself! I quit (keeping track of where the resignation papers are)!"
'Onya Moray!! 😂😂
I think Moray may be fibbing. In a good cause of course.
Good use of the "filing technique" line
No, Zlata. You are not ready to face the actual consequences, and that is why you are trying to insist on resigning and self-flaggelation in order to avoid them. Don't do that.
Talk about waking up with a hangover and not feeling like yourself. Does it ever end?
But the real question everyone is asking: does Hannelore's perfectly organized system beat Moray's perfectly disorganized system? It's time for the showdown. Which unstoppable filing technique is the most unstoppablest? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3610 (Nicely done on the nine year callback, Jeph)
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3617 What's the over/under on Zlata also offering up compensatory drowning in exchange for her missteps?
When she says you can't quit Without forms to submit That's A Moray!
When a locked file drawer Means you'll be working more, That's a Moray! When a lost set of keys Means you never can leave, That's a Moray! When some forms in the shredder Mean you're working forever Thaaaaaaat's a Mooooooray!
🎵 When your feeling a mood And your friends advice are moot That’s a Moray 🎵
🎶 When your missing a file And cannot do a smile That’s a Moray…. 🎶
Oh, Moray's breaking the BIG laws now.
only if Cubetown is At Will employment vs. uh...
Zlata's "punishment" will be to keep the new chassis and get back to work.
Shame 🔔 Shame 🔔 Shame 🔔
Masterstroke from Moray.
Someone's having a stroke, in any case.
Moray is NOT going to let Zlata resign until the Librarian has a word with her. :)
"You can't resign until you have organized all of Cubetown's bureaucracy into clean, streamlined processes that 100% resist entropy."
I'm hearing "I've got a job for life, or until I'm tired of it".
Is .. it me or is this a day late?
Not you, but... Jeph gave us a comic on Friday that SHOULD have been in yesterday. As a result, nothing came in yesterday. Er, does that make sense?
Can you just reject someone's resignation? I'm not sure. But, perhaps. You can't force them to work though, unless you're like the military.
Depends on how much autonomy the Canadian government allows them. Can any Canadian court hear a civil case from Cubetown?
Moray is a nicer person than me. I’d have slapped Zlata for being stupid. (Now, not last night)
Logic checks out
And doesn't check back in for a few days.
Cubetown's filing system was inspired by the works of Arthur C. Clarke - specifically "The Lost Worlds of 2001," where he described Stanley Kubrick's office as a domesticated black hole.
"We call the black hole Bob."
Are either one of them aware that Zlata produced a plant sprout of some sort on her right shoulder in the midst of this conversation? I mean I know the basic answer to the question, but damn, that sprout though 🤔
FEED ME SEYMOUR!
Infallible solution!
The only "proper paperwork" Zlata needs is another ID badge with her new pic on it. Provided she keeps the new chassis. And if Cubetown even has ID bades.
Badges? They dont need no stinkin' badges!
When files for employment Are lost, so can't be sent Thanks to Moray
🎵 When a sapient blob Says you can't quit your job That's a Moray!
When a girl made of slime Says you're stuck for some time That's a Moray!
When you jump to conclusions so she has stop your delusions – that’s a Moray!
Huh. Moray files like I play poker. (Apparently, I'm incredibly easy to read, but because I don't really have a great grasp of what a good hand is, they STILL can't tell whether I actually have a good hand.)
weaponized incompetence for good
Moray's superpower.
Why even drunk with coworkers, unless needing to resign from embarrassment on sobering up?
Bureaucracy saves the day!
The cause—and solution—of all our problems!
Committing a crime while in another body is basically double jeopardy
Yes, and one has to wonder how habeus corpus works when your, well, corpus can shift around 🤔
Filed under SCHLOOP
And if that file is ever found it will be found under POOLHCS.
I haven't read about filing techniques in a million years. I should get into that again.
I heard they are unstoppable!
Do not leave us, Comrade Zlata! The Proletariat needs you!
Ooh, an Alpha Centuari reference!
Throuple?
Moray, Zlata, & Zlata's old body?