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Trenches comic: Tuesday Oct. 11, 2011
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Comedic Opportunities in Test (Without complaining)
10/11/2011 - Anonymous
Hello! I have been a tester for a little over 10 years now, and I wanted to share some character archetypes with you based on people I’ve met along the way. I have to admit that I was disappointed with your article about test being a hellish thankless job - it’s not like that everywhere you know.
Anyways, on to the archetypes:
- The “bug machine” tester who just put in 26 bugs on the horse animations in the last hour
- The tester who owns every console ever
- The giant vampiric manchild who can’t say good things about anything, except that weird JRPG that nobody has ever heard of and only laughs inappropriately in loud, short bursts *HAHA*
- The pretty girl that all the guys are afraid to talk to until she hosts a brownbag on “How to perform fatalities in MK” (This actually happened)
- The Russian guy who smells like cigarette smoke and violence and says words like “Tester Porn” when he sees debug commands and never calls in favors people owe him - Leaving work at 11:30pm on a Sunday, you get a flat tire. Out of nowhere, Vasily pulls around his 1998 Jeep Cherokee and gives you a spare he just happened to have that fits perfectly and in the thick svelte accent says “Don’t mention it.” You are convinced that one day he’s going to ask you to hide a body, execute a cop or worse… cover his shift.
- The certification tester whose eyes are so dead, they make the Great White Shark look sympathetic
- The girl who learned conversational Japanese from Nintendo Error messages
- The localization tester who everyone calls over to their desk to get them back to English when they get stuck testing in E, F, R, I, G, S
- The MacGuyver tester who hooked up an oscillating fan to the joystick for soak tests *without* using duct tape (I got lots about this guy…)
- The test manager/director that intently listens and then only laughs when asked about publisher negotiations
- Dev QA vs Pub QA - seriously this is all you need for endless fun
- The former Nuclear Sub pilot who wanted a job that was low stress and doesn’t know what everyone whines about when the AC shuts off on Sunday. “YOU SHOULD TRY DOING THIS EVERY DAY FOR 500 DAYS BITCHES WE COULD LAND A BIRD ON THE DECK IN THIS HEAT.”
What the fuck does that even mean?
Cheers and have fun.
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I know someone just like that.
Q's nose/glasses combination look exactly like a bird - like an owl or cockatoo.
My nose is covered in freckles, but even mine isn't as orange as the noses in the comic.
I think we all do.
I get that (I'm already not a fan of the style of Trenches admittedly) but the random orange noses just really don't look good. It makes Q look like a bird, and it makes the girl look like she has no nose. For some reason it reads like negative space - like she has no nose, just a nasal cavity or like a jack o' lantern - but that could just be me. It doesn't bother me as much on the main character as much though.
Presumably a during lunch meeting/training session where you bring your lunch with you. My company calls them "Lunch and Learn" I believe.
In THE wiki. As in their internal wiki system for documentation and other stuff, nothing to do with Wikipedia.
Also, in for the soup recipe.
I am pretty sure its just supposed to be a generic stereotypical Russian name, like calling him Ivan only a bit more creative.
And this is a good comic.
I'm pretty sure the bird man is supposed to be a bird man, it's not some trick of the light.
and, it'd be very weird if your nose was as orange as the noses in the comic, Lindsey...
Strange and enigmatic QA Lead? Better with spread sheets than he is with people? Actually a really talented tester who makes thorough and effective test plans? Insists on being called Q instead of his full name?
I lived this shit.
[e] and/or avoids the sun.
only he smelled like B.O.
and wasn't helpful, ever.
Have to admit - I'd have a hard time giving the benefit of the doubt to someone who insists on calling himself Q.
How do you know he 'insists' on being called that? Maybe that's just his nickname in the office? I work with a guy that everyone calls 'Q' or occasionally by his full name, Quentin. Calling people by nicknames is more a sign of inter-office affection than a sign that the person with the nickname is pretentious, unless we get some panel where he wigs out because someone calls him by his full name.
(Incidentally, there used to be a lady working at my company that I had to email frequently, and her nickname was Peaches. And the odd thing was that she DID wig out if you called her by anything other than Peaches. I never met her, only emailed, and she's retired now.)
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Yeah, it's basic Seinfeldianism.
I give this strip 4.5 bananas out of 5
My first thought that he was actually a carrier guy, and he was meaning landing planes on the deck. But if he was really a sub pilot he probably means hitting a ship with a missile, which I guess is a high stress, skilled operation which would be harder to do when it's hot.