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[TRENCHES] Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - Guest Art: Mackenzie Schubert
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If it's still just a break between seasons, it's now the longest one so far.
Updated stats:
Length current guest comic has been up: 55 days (so far)
Season 1 08/09/11 - 02/16/12
Season 2 03/20/12 - 11/15/12
Season 3 01/08/13 - 09/05/13
Season 4 11/19/13 - 09/16/14
Break between Season 1 & 2: 33 days
Break between Season 2 & 3: 54 days
Break between Season 3 & 4: 75 days
Break between Season 4 & 5: 83 days (so far)
http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/the-invisible-god
Not going to guess about the game, but the timeframe has got to be mid-90s. Doom came out in 1993, Duke Nukem 3D in 1996, and Quake in 1996 as well.
Neglect is an ugly thing.
http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/falling-on-deaf-ears
http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/rebel-assault-on-my-childhood...its-a-trap
http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/calling-in-dead
Hey man, you just don't understand. You can't let a cog get uppity. I mean, employee. If they start getting uppity then they start asking for things like benefits and time to sleep. It's madness.
Like, lie dude. Invent a better reason that that! Go for sympathetic, not borderline contemptuous.
PSN: TheWolfman64 3DS/Pokemon Y: 0774-4614-4065/NNID: the_wolfman64
Seriously, what does it even matter as long as they are doing good work, are around when it's critical, and aren't making a habit of being absentee with no notice?
Yeah. Though it may have actually been honestly broken up about it. No kid gets out of elementary school without knowing how to fake sick. Maybe he really was devastated. My best friend bawled his eyes out when he was 10 because his paladin got killed in a game. 19 seems a little old for that, but put the stress of a minimum wage 70 hour a week job on top of personal life stress and yeah, I can see that being the straw that broke the camels back so to speak. I've had a mental breakdown before. The thing that set it off was tiny in comparison to the things that built up to it.
Indeed. You really have to look at your employees as interchangeable parts instead of humans to really care why they are taking the day off. As long as they don't make a habit of it you should have enough staffing depth to handle normal absenteeism. But from his perspective perhaps he figured that this cog proved himself unable to work every day without fail, and getting a new cog is easy, so why not just use 'em until you break 'em then replace 'em from the neverending line of applicants waiting to be abused?
Yeah it was a pretty bullshit excuse, but unless he had been a problematic employee in the past I don't really see why sacking him was necessary.
The fact that he would even be that honest means he's probably been working so hard he's delirious and really needs a day off anyway. After he got back to work you could just tell him its inappropriate to take a day off to morn the death of an imaginary person, and he needs to start remembering not to stay up late when he has work the next day.
Yes that isn't something you should HAVE to tell someone, but there are a few people without common sense or good parents that impart this wisdom.
If he dose it again...well yeah sack the little insubordinate shithead (at least for not giving you the courtesy of making up something serious).
It doesn't matter what it was or why your employee needed the day off; it was obviously important to him, and he felt he couldn't do his work effectively because of it. If he needed a personal day because he saw a spider and he's very shook up about it, it's not your fucking job to judge him. It's your job to judge his work performance, and from the story you told, I don't see any particular problem there. You're his supervisor, not his slave driver. Also, you're a dick.
Especially since you work at a gaming company and you show no respect for gaming. I don't even know what kind of mental gymnastics you have to go through when you fire someone for not thinking your game was important because they thought a game was important.
http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/i-am-in-mourning
http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/too-good-to-be-true
http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/not-everybody-is-a-soulless-asshole
I was going to make a joke here about the AI hanging out at Ilovebees.com waiting to transmit data on the Covenant to the UNSC 500 years from now, but... it looks like Ilovebees.com is down now? That's kindof a bummer.
Those Alternate Reality Games never really had a plan for longevity, since they were in essence marketing campaigns.
...smh. Some people are just so goddamn stupid. Besides maybe issuing refunds or credits what did they think account support could do about it?
Its probably less that the managers didn't have the ability, its more like they didn't have the authority. Workers were probably told it was not possible so they didn't bug the manager's boss to let the managers do it. I understand the CS reason on not hanging up, but there really needs to be some bullshit or belligerence exception (even if you need it cleared first). When I briefly worked in customer service (in a financial institution) we weren't allowed to hang up on a customer, but if there were issues we couldn't solve or a customer was becoming increasingly irate we were allowed to pass it on to the managers (which happened frequently when they were expecting to have money in their account, but it hadn't wired in yet; learned a bit about how much federal red tape exists when moving money around).
ILoveBees.com was still active with the countdown showing until relatively recently. Like, the past year or two.
I've all but completely given up on it, but it was one of the few webcomics I liked that updated on Tuesdays, and it's hard to break the habit of checking it for a new one...
I think if I ever were to see that guest art in real life, I would vandalize it.
I'd rather the author at least post a "hey, I won't be updating this for the foreseeable future, sorry." but I guess ad revenue is too important to give up.
There's no place for such a post to appear on the site, since they never added a "news" section to the site. All the news for the comic has previously appeared in PA news posts.
The "About the Artist" section has never been updated to remove Monica Ray after she left:
http://trenchescomic.com/about
Perhaps it's time for a new Strip Search? Winner takes over the trenches?
Ah, I had begun to think it was finally dead. Be interesting to see what happens with it.
Is there a way to get the tales to start updating again? It gave us something to talk about until the comic starts up again.