[TRENCHES] Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - Duckface

Geth

Duckface
http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/duckface

At least he was wearing pants. Right?

Anonymous

Testers are predominantly young and male, we all know this. Put a lot of them together and certain personal standards tend to get a bit lax. It is what it is. At a minimum, the many testers in our office at least managed to not wear shorts to work, even if it was over a hundred degrees outside.

Anyway, much to our surprise, one of the lead producers at the company called all the testers to the lunch room one afternoon. In my five years, it was the only time it’s ever happened.

He talked about how much pride we should have in our work, and how great it is to be doing it all together. He wistfully mentioned his days as a tester many years ago. Sleeping in his car, or working on Thanksgiving and having a makeshift meal with the crew. So many nice things to say.

Long story short, another tenant had complained about finding a tester washing his feet in the bathroom sink. Try and class it up, guys.

VeggieH8R

OR he could have been Muslim?

RMS Oceanic

Those lips...

Sorce

Looks like it's Duck Season afterall.

Gaslight

This seems like an abrupt shift from Coradad's rampage and bitter departure. They could have at least put some bruising on Q's face for the sake of continuity.

RatherDashing89

I still want to know where the printer is.

TychoCelchuuu

Where the fuck are you supposed to wash your feet if not in the sink? Maybe he took his shoes off to relax and stepped on something nasty, or he was Muslim, or whatever. Anyone who thinks bathroom sinks are clean because people only wash their hands in them hasn't thought this through - I've met people whose hands are sweatier than my feet are, and I don't go around touching things with my feet or wiping my ass with some paper I grab with my feet.

Gaslight

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Where the fuck are you supposed to wash your feet if not in the sink?

At your home.

Maybe he took his shoes off to relax

Also generally frowned upon in one's place of employment.

AI50

I think the point was that if the job requires working so many hours or doesn't pay enough so that you have to sleep in your car then they are probably not going home in the first place. At least he was trying to stay clean

Javen

I feel like if I ever had a job that caused my hygiene to suffer, I'd bring it up with my boss. Like, 'hey, I know we're in crunch, but I haven't had time to actually go home and shower or do laundry in a while. Mind if I take a morning to freshen up?' Hopefully they say yes, because they are human beings, or they say no and it's their own fault for now working in a cesspit for valuing manhours over basic cleanliness. It also wouldn't hurt to, like, have the self-awareness to notice things like this and take steps to pre-empt it, like carrying a toiletry bag in your car or locker

TychoCelchuuu

Gaslight wrote: »

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Where the fuck are you supposed to wash your feet if not in the sink?

At your home.

Maybe he took his shoes off to relax

Also generally frowned upon in one's place of employment.

Not every workplace bans shoe removal, and besides, there are other reasons your foot could get dirty. Maybe someone spilled their cup of Coca Cola on your shoe. Do you want to spend the rest of the day with a sticky soda foot?

ArbitraryDescriptor

Sorce wrote: »

Looks like it's Duck Season afterall.

It's Rabbit Season; Elmer is following Toots on Instagram.

Warlock82

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Gaslight wrote: »

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Where the fuck are you supposed to wash your feet if not in the sink?

At your home.

Maybe he took his shoes off to relax

Also generally frowned upon in one's place of employment.

Not every workplace bans shoe removal, and besides, there are other reasons your foot could get dirty. Maybe someone spilled their cup of Coca Cola on your shoe. Do you want to spend the rest of the day with a sticky soda foot?

Eww, I don't want to work at those workplaces :P (also even if it isn't banned, there's a thing called professionalism that should really keep you from taking your shoes off or doing other gross things)


Anyways, I guess I'm of the opinion that feet in the sink is kind of gross. Though it is funny to have the producer give this glowing story about working overtime, then slapping down a guy for doing something cuz he was working overtime.

I mean, I sort of get it, but at the same time, I think I agree with Javen here. 30 minutes to run home and take a shower isn't going to blow the schedule.

KrytenKoro

What is this, mad men? Seriously, its disgusting to allow shoe removal at your desk?

Re:story - It's a bathroom, a place where everything is coated in a fine layer of fecal matter due to being in the same room as toilets. The tenant's being irrational, and the trencher comes off as pretentious (shorts in the summer is unacceptable? At a job testing video games and being exploited for insane hours and conditions?)...this feels more like a story from one of the villains trenches pieces usually rail against.

(Also the comic has a few grammar errors and is really, really oddly placed in this storyline.)

Darkewolfe

Yes, shoe removal at your desk is incredibly disgusting.

And if your bathroom is "coated in a fine layer of fecal matter" rather than "immaculate because people clean it all the goddamn time," then...

KrytenKoro

...you do realize that it's almost physically impossible to have flushing toilets in a bathroom and not get that layer with every flush, right? They demonstrated it on mythbusters, iirc.

As for the shoe thing...wow. "incredibly"? In what possible way is it unhygenic? I mean, your feet are going to be cleaner than any given keyboard, unless you're purposefully dunking them in mess.

see317

All things considered, I'm surprised the story didn't go from "mass meeting" to "mass firing" in the last sentence.

I think it's odd that a person would be washing his feet in the sink, but if that's the worst thing you ever see in your work restroom, consider yourself lucky.

TIFunkalicious

tootsuite?

Darkewolfe

Tout de suite, (tout suite/tootsweet) means "right away" in French.

A bajillion puns are played off it.

Persuter

What kind of game development company requires their testers to wear long pants? I'm a programmer and I'm the only person in the office including my boss who *doesn't* wear shorts.

Spaffy

No shorts at work, what the fuck? They're not lawyers. I presented to one of the UK's biggest ad firm's Creative Director last week and the dude was wearing shorts AND flip flops. And the shorts had way too many pockets. I had way too many buttons undone and was concerned that tucking my shirt in was too much. His assistant was wearing a vest.

If you're not client facing you should be able to wear whatever the fuck you want (within the realms of decency).

I don't know why that pissed me off so much.