Pokémon No
http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/pokemon-no
They can’t give an award out to everyone.
AnonymousWorking as a web designer and developer for the games division of a Very Large Software Company, I had the opportunity to work on some impressive and fun projects. Back in the day before Millennials were a thing, web sites were more information-focused and less complex than they are today, and “web masters” (as they were once called) often found themselves doing every aspect for a particular project by themselves.
So one day, my boss forwards me an email from product marketing; it was the specifications for a sub-site, complete with verbiage, some assets, and a list of functional requirements. I dutifully prepared the web site, going back and forth with marketing over the site on our development server. Once completed, the often time-consuming process of Final Approval™ was the only obstacle to delivery.
I went on vacation with my girlfriend and prepared an email to my boss and delegate as to the status of the project, as well as the 30 seconds’ worth of work required to make the web site go live. It went live while I was on vacation without a hitch.
Fast forward six months later, and I was assigned a small section to add to our Intranet site announcing the recognition of certain employees for their efforts on specific projects and that these employees would be awarded a plaque and a payment of $800 at a company awards banquet. One of the projects being “recognized” was my very own sub-site.
Shockingly, the people they mentioned were: the marketing folks (no problem), my boss, and the fill-in who had literally pressed a button to launch it. My name was notable in its absence.
I complained to the lady in whatever-division-handles-award-giving-out and explained my situation. I complained that I had worked on the entire project alone from an IT and design perspective, that I had completed 99.9999% of the project. I pointed out that it had been assigned to me, and not the other recipients. I pointed out that the delegate had only pushed the site live, and my boss had only forwarded the original email to me and that given those credentials, I was certainly due recognition, the plaque, and the little bonus cheque (given tax deducations, the plaque was the more valuable item).
You know what her response to me was? “We can’t give awards out to everyone who was involved in the project.”
Jesus.
When my boss and my coworker went up on stage in their tuxes to receive their accolades, I did not clap.
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The balloon placement in panel two is bad, but the comic is a bit disjointed overall.
I think the author was trying to interweave two jokes, one about being forced to move around with the new Pokemon Go apps vs the ability to cheat with the old Pokewalkers and one about the term "walkers" to describe the undead. Unfortunately, the term "Pokewalkers" really muddles the two jokes (sounds like Isaac is referring to Pokewalkers in the last panel) and the entire comic ends up slightly incoherent. The 4th panel should've been left out completely.
her text could have been more vauge to allow that to make more sense. maybe even "the Walkers".
sounds like the author had two jokes they wanted to make and figured one would allow them to make the other.... Glad i kept coming back to the site for like....2 weeks to get this gem
But I really like the art and direction The Trenches has been going lately.
TBF it's still above average for the recent Trenches.
http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/continue
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> Also, it's been a year since we've seen or heard from Janet, or the Vampire guy, the EA contract did stipulate they got ALL employees.... What happened to them?
Look, it's clear that even though the Trenches has Mike, Jerry, and Scott's name on it, they've checked out. It's like they had a child together that they got tired of quickly, and are now ignoring and passing it off from relative to relative, or leaving at friend's houses. There's no coherent plot, characters pass in and out of the strip, and sporadic "big events" happen as somebody new tries to make a mark. At this point there's really only 3 options:
I really wanted to like it when it WOULD start trying to put together a long standing plot. But I think by now we have seen Mike and Jerry at least do not really like to stick to anything for long, almost get bored. So starting a comic that really wanted to be that continuity thing they never could do was kind of doomed to failure.
I just do not understand why no one else who has taken over was able to do this either. Nor why it continues to have its original branding that hasn't really changed since the pages were put up.