Moray Is Good At Her Job
"Eventually" is still in play
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Is cubetown just a standin for TopatoCo? Will the Director just be an AI Weedmaster P
that's a moray
When you’re made of weird goo and you can’t interview
Feels like running a data center for a bunch of AIs could be a "remote-work" job pretty easily.
Yep I am still on board with that idea.
Other than the lack of technical skill and willingness to fracking swear, Moray-X21 reminds me soooo much of myself... why.... WHY?!?
as many others I have been waving red flags all over the place, and I am fully convinced, were this job based "in the real world" (you know, as much as it could be with AIs and stuff around ;) ) it would be the kind of job that *needs* 80+ hours per week for at least a year. That can be a great challenge for some people, especially assuming it comes with adequate pay, but it's not something that can be done while maintaining any kind of healthy work/life balance. Not to mention that anxiety-prone folks would probably develop physical issues to go along with the anxiety from pure stress. Curious to see where Jeph takes this and how much (rather unfun) real world will be here
The kind of challenge it is better to encounter in your twenties than your forties
My pronouns are he/him but thanks all the same, I do like to think so.
Is it just me, or has every instance of an AI-run organization hiring someone new, been cripplingly naive and seemingly in over their heads but extraordinarily nice? 🤔
From a strictly temporal standpoint, all AIs running organizations are children.
It's all great to be put in charge of a department and get paid to build it until they start checking on your progress. Claire's smart enough to pull it off but I have to wonder who's bankrolling this place if they can throw money away like that.
and now for salary negotiation.
I bet Claire is going to forget to ask. Edit: Until Martin asks her what the salary is.
Plot twist: Pintsize will get Claire fired on day one. Claire, Marten and Pintsize will be blacklisted and marked as no-contact. The End.
Nah... It's... It's too easy...
It might be appropriate for Claire to feel like she's taking advantage, here.
The first rule of swear club is: Don’t ***k about swear club.
🚩🚩🚩Hooray!🚩🚩🚩
Wow, right to left is STILL great, I'm beginning to think Jeph is doing this on purpose lol My serious take is that this is a state change for Claire and Marten. Either they demonstrate leadership and competence and get something constructive out of the situation or it overwhelms them and they come home defeated. Even then that might be something on the CV worth having.
I'm starting to think we're going to get an arc about them moving, only for the new job to burn itself literally to the ground before Claire starts working.
I love everything about this SO MUCH
Is Moray made of Mora? (shout out to my Genshin fellows, [caps]Join me in Gatcha Addiction Hell[/caps])
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QC: what if AI but 99% super ditzy ND weirdos?
Look, making brains is hard! Evolution has been doing it for millions of years and humanity is still a hot mess! Humans have only been doing it for the last 20 years, in comic, and even then we still don't know HOW we did it!
What will Yay say? Will Clinton and Aurelia be able to let go? Will Hanners ask Station about it? Is THIS how Alice came to be? How many questions is enough?
Does Pintsize tags along? Does Moray fall in love with Pintsize? Will Steve eat something other than cereal? Will Dora & Tai actually get married? Does Faye and Bubbles ask Roko about how to legalize a robot-human marriage? Does Roko feel betrayed in falling in love with a croissant maker? There question – and more! – will be answered on this episode of QC!
I can't believe there isn't a swearing club sign up yet
I call President!
I love how AIs in this world are naive in a way humans wouldn’t be. Just alien enough to be off-putting, but clearly trying their best.
They have a lot of points in Intelligence and often a lot in Charisma but they haven't existed long enough to have much Wisdom yet :)
Know what, Moray’s concern for Emily’s mental health and safety is a green flag, finally. Still, I wouldn’t work there.
You mean Claire's mental health?
It makes me a little sad that so many folks read Moray and Cubetown as sinister, plotting, scheming, deliberate and predatory. The whole situation just struck me as "we have boundless enthusiasm for learning, no idea how to do that in a structured way, and haven't run into any problems serious enough to shake our confidence yet".
I don't think people are necessarily reading things as sinister. It's possible for leaders of an organization to be clueless, not only about how to run things well, but inexperienced enough that they don't realize when they are harming their staff, possibly through a lack of guidance, or contradictory guidance, or asking too much of employees (and not having the awareness to realize the employees are afraid to raise objections to the capricious authority figures). Why yes, I am speaking from personal experience. :)
Let's face it: Claire has never been in a non-retail workplace before. Her initiation will be brutal, but necessary.
Optimistic prediction: Claire is brilliant and is lauded in professional journals. She is offered positions at a number of well known institutions. Not so Optimistic prediction: Hi Dora. it's Claire. Do you have any positions available?
In between prediction: Claire is good at what she does, but Marten knocks their collective socks off and he becomes their DJ radio dude.
This gig is going to be a wild ride but I'm confident Claire's going to crush it (after a rocky start.)
I'm sure she'll do her best, but I worry she will be way out of her depth trying to setup an entire department as her first job
Moray and Melon really must meet.
I would worry that Melon might try to eat a chunk of her to see what happens and Moray might allow it
I love Moray so much, she's just doing her best 🥺
She is just so completely genuine, unbiased and pure. She comes off as completely free of cynicism.
I take it back. Melon has more common sense.
i just want to point out on page 4860, there appears to be some more of moray in a jar. that is all.
What if that's her personal swear jar?
And the red flags keep on coming. I really hope this works out for Claire, though.
Will Claire have to conform to company attire standards?
Did I miss something? Did nudist jellygirl AIs become a thing in QC and I just missed them being in the background of previous pages or something? (As an aside, this would be a most EXCELLENT prank if Jeph felt like editing old pages and reuploading them to the website, heh.)
... Moray is desperate to get Claire hired. Why is Moray desperate?
They have such sights to show Claire