Commanding Presence
hey you can't spell "flowchart" without "art"
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Claire used the Dom voice
You also can't spell "flowchart" without "OW". The only time I ever made flowcharts was when they were absolutely required work in college. They always gave me a migraine.
I went with pseudo code as soon as I could. I still have my old flowchart template from school.
Claire is using Googirl Flow (tm) to get this documented.
GDI, Andrew. Enjoy your like! lol
Flowchart art…fart.
Flowch art, surely
A fundamental problem is the urge to apply traditional org charts to highly fluid communities run by beings who are physically more suited to ad hoc mesh communication. Human industrial management is based on the idea that the Monarch has nobles each ruling over a fiefdom so on top to bottom. The paradigm is ownership of land and the serfs who work it. This does not adequately capture the work and resource flow of a highly interconnected network of small groups with varying degrees of integration with others. A more profitable approach might be the literally organic modes employed by mixed forests or slime molds. Dynamic graph databases with heat maps, not aristocratic 18th century hierarchy. In the end, a new form of enterprise management might be Cubetown's most revolutionary innovation
It's kind of hard to properly draw one of those on a whiteboard.
Claire is the Chief Detanglement Officer.
Didn't take long for Claire to go from "Head of Information Science" to "Effectively CEO for an absent owner".
And 'team mom' for the entire town, which I'm sure will be super chill
She has already started the job.
Yup, this stopped being an interview some time ago
So the entire organisation is "we have this weird jellyfish that's super smart and occasionally buds off slimegirls, talk to them" Good lord, they REALLY need Claire
Claire about to unleash some shit she don't want Marten to see
That’s what a bidet is for.
"... and by the time we left she had the robots eating out of her hand. Literally. It was a weird scene."
I hope Claire plans to bill them for her time here later on, because it seems like we've moved on from "showing her around" to "actually starting the job"
No work w/o pay
As an extension of the Director’s neural mass, Moray(-22?)’s entire existence is predicated on assisting Claire. Guess the Director is a bit of a daydreamer.
Given that Moray X-22 has been independent for a while, she could have developed more of a distinct personality, but on the other hand, the Director being totally uninterested in the day-to-day running of Cubetown would explain how we ended up with this mess to begin with
Am I the only one who is curious about what appears to be a rather large fish which seems to report to one of the outer departments?
Oh, that one? That fish is a source of temporary financial assistance to some of the department heads. What? You never heard of loan sharks?
Theory: The fact that “Director” is the only discernible text is not simply Jeph being artistic; it actually all looks like a bunch of vague squiggles to the characters in the comic.
I want to know about the shark leaping out of the water at the bottom of the org chart. What exactly is its organizational relationship to the circle or face in the box above, and also is it a zombie shark or possibly an AI shark?
Clearly it's a reference to The Mud Shark Incident.
ClaireinCharge.org
New gal in the neighborhood lives downstairs and it’s understood. She's there just to take good care of me, like she's one of the family. Claire in charge of our days and our nights, Claire in charge of our wrongs and our rights, and I sing, “I want, I want Claire in charge of me.”
Moray, never stop being you. Also Claire. And Marten.
@Daniel Rydberg: Moray-22: Got it! I will continue to be me, and also be Claire and also be Marten!
The swoopy line near the middle reminds me of "Jeremy Bearimy" from The Good Place.
It reminds me of the final road sign in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure.
I'm honestly just impressed that Cubetown has a place for giving presentations to humans rather than assuming they can just throw digital information around.
This scene takes place on the holodeck.
WTG Claire!
“Well Thank Goodness: Claire!”
This org chart doesn't need reorganizing, it needs to be put out of it's misery...
We should hold a meeting. With donuts. And marking pens. And a shredder. But especially with donuts. (And hot tea for the AI contingent. And bread because Roko.)
Sitting down and testing the waters to see what kind of work she needs to do to FIND OUT what kind of work she needs to do is a really good idea! I would even call it wise.
Claire could boss me around all she wanted 🥺👉👈
There's a line forming; the end is back around that corner.
If the librarian business doesn't work out (or more likely - becomes too frustrating) - she could always cut it as a dom
Think that might hit a bit close to home with Marten, tho...
I'm all here for commanding presence Claire
Putting the “owch” in “flowchart”
Love it! I am keeping this one for my next office meeting.
Claire has been studying with Marten’s mom…
And listening to Hannelore when she uses The Voice. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3637
The rumors we saw in comic 4960 are TRUE, people. Claire CAN juggle swords. Hell, Claire can juggle the DIRECTOR. :)
I love Claire being businesslike! But, if she turns into Martin's mom that will be weird.
something something Oedipus Complex
Hmm. I bet the visualization people will love this one: since “art” is a substring of “chart”, you actually need it for *any* kind of chart! 💹🎨😎
This plotline is going to end with Claire having to flee from arrest for multiple robo-murder, isn't it?
That's the wildly OPTIMISTIC forecast.
The best question is, can she do this remotely?, or is this the end of QC
Jeph has said it's not the end. OTOH it may be a plotline fracture where Claire and Marten go off and have adventures that are separate from Northampton's characters.
So wait is she working without an official confirmation? Or did I miss a comic?
I assume this is just Claire wanting to get a better understanding of the situation for her own consideration.
Moray beg!
You can't spell it without 'Flowch' who I believe the comic will pivot to focusing on exclusively in about ten strips
I’m the ?
I actually kinda love that she's delegating the "get a feel for the vibe" a bit. A) She trusts Marten to give her feedback, but more practically, B) Can he find a job there, also?
First Mate on Boaty.
The corporate dodecahedron, or the corporate tessarct?
ironic, for a place literally named Cubetown
Is that a resistance symbol to the upper right of the Director?
Yes, obviously it connects to the faction of plucky farmboys, smugglers, and exiled princesses struggling to get out from the Director's tyrannical rule.
Librarian domme Claire 🥺🥺🥺
Actually, Claire will more likely need a Gantt Chart for the flowchart. Just sayin'.
Neither would be sufficient on their own to document this mess. Together, they wouldn't be sufficient to document this mess. Do you really think Claire would give out a flowchart for free if it would be sufficient? Well, OK, I guess I can buy that.
Also Claire is suddenly reminding me a great deal of my old chief of staff and that is a wonderful thing
And you can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter"!
WTFWJD?
Flowch art.
Damn. Maybe Claire WILL be able to control this place.
I love Claire.
You also can't spell "flowchart" without "ow."
Or "hat", "wart", "hoar", "crow", "fart", "watch", or "cthlfwao"
Aw man, Claire's gonna turn everything into actual WORK 😭
Okay … portal theory?
Your saying this is a triumph?
If it were my company, said flowchart would have to be made in Excel. . o O (Japanese companies LOVE Excel. For literally everything.)
All companies love Excel. They think it's good for multi-gigabyte databases. (Wishes he was making that up. shudder)
Claire has found her inner mommy.
Synergy
Honestly, it's best for Marten not to be there when Claire goes into Organizational Domme mode.
It would be weirdly incestuous