This actually came across as kind of charming, and I can't tell if that's my standards lowering or if "person struggling to adjust to cultural shifts and the passage of time" is just a niche Jeph can actually work in and understand
I mean, I'm 30 and spent all day jacking off and playing Monster Hunter while nominally "working" from home. Now I'm here, same as I am every goddamn thread. I can't exactly throw stones on that front.
If you're going to succumb to the internet rot, it's important to at least keep up with the times. For this reason, I have tiktok compilations playing while I cook dinner in order to keep tabs on the zoomerlingo.
I was lucky to join a megacorp as a ticket monkey five years ago and bounce around internally until I became a data engineer. Cushy gig, full-time work from home, six-figure salary, good job security. Pure blind luck. There's a lot of openings in data engineering and SQL-adjacent work in general because big data is a rapidly growing field even relative to it's colossal size, but actually getting INTO the corps can be a hassle because the hiring process for tech jobs is an absolute joke that seems more designed to belittle and burn out applicants than find people who can do the daily tasks.
sounds like my gig except I'm a ticket monkey for a federal agency, covid has been awesome since they pushed us all into work at home and it looks like its staying that way
2 years ago
Anonymous
What do I need to be a ticket monkey? I need to work from home as I see my job drying up in a couple years.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Very little beyond a college education and the foreknowledge that the jobs are deliberate meat grinders. For the most part, as long as you follow the guidelines for ticket resolution, make quota, and obey the timesheet rules, they don't give a single solitary frick who you are or what you do. Some people thrive in that environment. Some don't.
2 years ago
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>Very little beyond a college education
Places actually care about a college degree after covid?
2 years ago
Anonymous
I agree with you that it's far from necessary for most jobs, but it's a piece of paper that says "I'm able to stay with an institution for multiple years in pursuit of a goal while performing prescripted tasks and adhering to a schedule". The actual education is secondary.
2 years ago
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>but it's a piece of paper that says "I'm able to stay with an institution for multiple years in pursuit of a goal while performing prescripted tasks and adhering to a schedule".
God damn I hate this.
2 years ago
Anonymous
get a Google certificate through Skillshare or another certified Google company. That shit is more valuable now than a college degree.
sounds like my gig except I'm a ticket monkey for a federal agency, covid has been awesome since they pushed us all into work at home and it looks like its staying that way
What do I need to be a ticket monkey? I need to work from home as I see my job drying up in a couple years.
I work for the USPS and what the frick is a ticket monkey?
2 years ago
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Let's say you work for a big tech company. Issues are usually tracked internally in a colossal ledger, with each individual issue tracked by a ticket. It has a unique URL, the person who opens/modifies/is assigned/completes/closes the ticket is all marked, and it's a way to keep all communications and steps taken on a task in a single location. For a large tech company that deals with tens of thousands of customer contacts per day, each of those contacts will usually generate a ticket and require some level of action. Sometimes that action is cutting tickets to other queues so one of those guys can do their bullshit and get back to you on your ticket. It's hell on earth and the closest man has come to the shit in the Screwtape Letters.
A ticket monkey is someone that lives in this morass and works the tickets.
2 years ago
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Christ and I thought having to deliver 350+ packages in a LLV during a heat wave was frickin bad, at least I get to see trees and the sun and shit.
Also quit ordering desks, dog food and cat litter from amazon. It really pisses your carrier off cause it fricks with how we pack the trucks AND its heavy as frick. Get the masochists at UPS and FedEx to do it.
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's a trade-off really. Both jobs are managing insane quotas set by people who have never done the work and think that people are robots who can scale up to 100% efficiency at random tasks with zero notice, but your choice is either getting mental illness or repetitive motion injuries. But I've worked grocery before, and I'd much rather take bureaucratic horseshit over having to lug 50 lb sacks of whatever the frick someplace else without a pallet jack.
2 years ago
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Here's where you're wrong but also right: the post office is 100% internal hires for management positions (besides postmaster general of course I hope DeJoy gets mangled by a runaway LLV) so everyone of my multiple supervisors and postmasters (there's a lot of turnover/burnout at my PO) have anywhere from 10-30 years of experience of being a carrier. But, of course, most from pre-amazon and pre-covid MEANING they try to rush you out the door during casing but also stop paying you after a certain amount of hours because you have to make multiple trips for all the amazon packages? Idk shit is about to hit a head and I hope management is ready for the union to bust they ass.
2 years ago
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God, I would kill for some of that. Tech typically has no union and no worker solidarity, and the nature of the space is that any tenure beyond 2-3 years is actually seen as an inflexible liability rather than depth of experience. I fully agree that Amazon has been coasting on the flexibility of USPS for last-mile shipping to everyone's detriment and between that and the insane efforts by the feds over the past few decades to strip it down for parts and sabotage it certainly aren't helping. Who knows, maybe they'll actually get that drone delivery shit working, I think a test run just launched in California.
2 years ago
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>Who knows, maybe they'll actually get that drone delivery shit working,
I'm not saying that it's 100% right or that the challenges can't be overcome, but reporting like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-M98KLgaUU makes me skeptical that mass warehouse-to-home drone delivery will ever be a thing.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Where I could see it maybe getting some traction is in conjunction with the delivery lockboxes that already exist, but assuming you add in the fact someone has to sort them into individually secured lockers, the desire to maintain throughput and ease of access, and other logistical constraints, you've essentially just reinvented picking your shit up from the post office. But it's flown there by a drone! That's something!
2 years ago
Anonymous
>besides postmaster general of course I hope DeJoy gets mangled by a runaway LLV)
I can see it now >Postmaster pasted against pole by postal postal worker.
2 years ago
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Yay or nay on the Oshkosh duckface?
2 years ago
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No idea, most of my office's LLVs are being replaced by the mercedes-benz metris.
It's a likable character trait. Someone earnestly struggling to understand something they don't but you do is endearing as hell. Like talking to someone in the process of learning your language or when you have a friend to trying to get into one of your interests you don't currently share. Even when it's scuffed, you appreciate the obvious effort they make to connect with someone.
Have you never met an internet friend IRL? Like, I can send internet porn of pokemon dicks to a dude whose username is a e-girl in a 2000s anime while talking about how we both have depression, but then meeting them in person it's difficult to even say hello because you haven't built up a rapport in that context. They aren't "Kurodicky69" they're some big dude named Mike that looks like he plays Warhammer for money. Also for QC in particular between the timeskips and glacial story pace even events that occurred real-world years ago were a few months ago at most.
Have you never met an internet friend IRL? Like, I can send internet porn of pokemon dicks to a dude whose username is a e-girl in a 2000s anime while talking about how we both have depression, but then meeting them in person it's difficult to even say hello because you haven't built up a rapport in that context. They aren't "Kurodicky69" they're some big dude named Mike that looks like he plays Warhammer for money. Also for QC in particular between the timeskips and glacial story pace even events that occurred real-world years ago were a few months ago at most.
I'm just waiting for the unclimactic reveal that these people's lives have been intertwined for awhile and they never knew.
Isn't this troony girl and merigold? they havent met since either were introduced? what the frick?
Community consensus was it's intentional. There's a marked backslide to the current level of quality which he's held at a newspaper syndication level of unchanging
2 years ago
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I wouldn't say it's intentional, in that would require active decision making. He's just passively slid into generally doing less work, almost certainly not coincidentally around the time that he shifted from being primarily supported by ad revenue and merch to Patreon. Why illustrate 9 types of bread when 3 will do? Why check references, I know what my characters look like? And so on.
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And this is the lazy-ass version of the same shop, 10 years later (in real life - strip time, a few months at most). Good job, Gephhy!
insanely good, there's such a softness to the right image, the expressions and line-weight are perfect. good show anon you know how to nail sketches of marigold and aurelia sucking each others boobs
The creator has gone out of their way to give any conclusive statement vis a vis Claire's genitals and present/future plans for those genitals. Also this redhed is the transgender girl's mother, she just looks 20something instead of 50something because the artist is a hack.
This actually came across as kind of charming, and I can't tell if that's my standards lowering or if "person struggling to adjust to cultural shifts and the passage of time" is just a niche Jeph can actually work in and understand
The sad part is that he's simultaneously out of touch and his brain is rotted by the internet
I mean, I'm 30 and spent all day jacking off and playing Monster Hunter while nominally "working" from home. Now I'm here, same as I am every goddamn thread. I can't exactly throw stones on that front.
If you're going to succumb to the internet rot, it's important to at least keep up with the times. For this reason, I have tiktok compilations playing while I cook dinner in order to keep tabs on the zoomerlingo.
>I have tiktok compilations playing while I cook dinner
This is not good or something to be proud of
but how else will I become, and I quote, "goated with the sauce"
Don't do that
Didn't say I was
>while nominally "working" from home.
Are there openings in this line of "work"?
I was lucky to join a megacorp as a ticket monkey five years ago and bounce around internally until I became a data engineer. Cushy gig, full-time work from home, six-figure salary, good job security. Pure blind luck. There's a lot of openings in data engineering and SQL-adjacent work in general because big data is a rapidly growing field even relative to it's colossal size, but actually getting INTO the corps can be a hassle because the hiring process for tech jobs is an absolute joke that seems more designed to belittle and burn out applicants than find people who can do the daily tasks.
sounds like my gig except I'm a ticket monkey for a federal agency, covid has been awesome since they pushed us all into work at home and it looks like its staying that way
What do I need to be a ticket monkey? I need to work from home as I see my job drying up in a couple years.
Very little beyond a college education and the foreknowledge that the jobs are deliberate meat grinders. For the most part, as long as you follow the guidelines for ticket resolution, make quota, and obey the timesheet rules, they don't give a single solitary frick who you are or what you do. Some people thrive in that environment. Some don't.
>Very little beyond a college education
Places actually care about a college degree after covid?
I agree with you that it's far from necessary for most jobs, but it's a piece of paper that says "I'm able to stay with an institution for multiple years in pursuit of a goal while performing prescripted tasks and adhering to a schedule". The actual education is secondary.
>but it's a piece of paper that says "I'm able to stay with an institution for multiple years in pursuit of a goal while performing prescripted tasks and adhering to a schedule".
God damn I hate this.
get a Google certificate through Skillshare or another certified Google company. That shit is more valuable now than a college degree.
I work for the USPS and what the frick is a ticket monkey?
Let's say you work for a big tech company. Issues are usually tracked internally in a colossal ledger, with each individual issue tracked by a ticket. It has a unique URL, the person who opens/modifies/is assigned/completes/closes the ticket is all marked, and it's a way to keep all communications and steps taken on a task in a single location. For a large tech company that deals with tens of thousands of customer contacts per day, each of those contacts will usually generate a ticket and require some level of action. Sometimes that action is cutting tickets to other queues so one of those guys can do their bullshit and get back to you on your ticket. It's hell on earth and the closest man has come to the shit in the Screwtape Letters.
A ticket monkey is someone that lives in this morass and works the tickets.
Christ and I thought having to deliver 350+ packages in a LLV during a heat wave was frickin bad, at least I get to see trees and the sun and shit.
Also quit ordering desks, dog food and cat litter from amazon. It really pisses your carrier off cause it fricks with how we pack the trucks AND its heavy as frick. Get the masochists at UPS and FedEx to do it.
It's a trade-off really. Both jobs are managing insane quotas set by people who have never done the work and think that people are robots who can scale up to 100% efficiency at random tasks with zero notice, but your choice is either getting mental illness or repetitive motion injuries. But I've worked grocery before, and I'd much rather take bureaucratic horseshit over having to lug 50 lb sacks of whatever the frick someplace else without a pallet jack.
Here's where you're wrong but also right: the post office is 100% internal hires for management positions (besides postmaster general of course I hope DeJoy gets mangled by a runaway LLV) so everyone of my multiple supervisors and postmasters (there's a lot of turnover/burnout at my PO) have anywhere from 10-30 years of experience of being a carrier. But, of course, most from pre-amazon and pre-covid MEANING they try to rush you out the door during casing but also stop paying you after a certain amount of hours because you have to make multiple trips for all the amazon packages? Idk shit is about to hit a head and I hope management is ready for the union to bust they ass.
God, I would kill for some of that. Tech typically has no union and no worker solidarity, and the nature of the space is that any tenure beyond 2-3 years is actually seen as an inflexible liability rather than depth of experience. I fully agree that Amazon has been coasting on the flexibility of USPS for last-mile shipping to everyone's detriment and between that and the insane efforts by the feds over the past few decades to strip it down for parts and sabotage it certainly aren't helping. Who knows, maybe they'll actually get that drone delivery shit working, I think a test run just launched in California.
>Who knows, maybe they'll actually get that drone delivery shit working,
I'm not saying that it's 100% right or that the challenges can't be overcome, but reporting like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-M98KLgaUU makes me skeptical that mass warehouse-to-home drone delivery will ever be a thing.
Where I could see it maybe getting some traction is in conjunction with the delivery lockboxes that already exist, but assuming you add in the fact someone has to sort them into individually secured lockers, the desire to maintain throughput and ease of access, and other logistical constraints, you've essentially just reinvented picking your shit up from the post office. But it's flown there by a drone! That's something!
>besides postmaster general of course I hope DeJoy gets mangled by a runaway LLV)
I can see it now
>Postmaster pasted against pole by postal postal worker.
Yay or nay on the Oshkosh duckface?
No idea, most of my office's LLVs are being replaced by the mercedes-benz metris.
It's a likable character trait. Someone earnestly struggling to understand something they don't but you do is endearing as hell. Like talking to someone in the process of learning your language or when you have a friend to trying to get into one of your interests you don't currently share. Even when it's scuffed, you appreciate the obvious effort they make to connect with someone.
wait haven't these characters known each other for a decade?
Have you never met an internet friend IRL? Like, I can send internet porn of pokemon dicks to a dude whose username is a e-girl in a 2000s anime while talking about how we both have depression, but then meeting them in person it's difficult to even say hello because you haven't built up a rapport in that context. They aren't "Kurodicky69" they're some big dude named Mike that looks like he plays Warhammer for money. Also for QC in particular between the timeskips and glacial story pace even events that occurred real-world years ago were a few months ago at most.
No, they've legit never met, and even if they had, in the sliding timeline of the strip, it's only taken place over the course of a few years
Isn't this troony girl and merigold? they havent met since either were introduced? what the frick?
That's not Claire, that's her mom, Jeph's just terrible at drawing her as a 50 year old and constantly draws her so she looks like her daughter.
And again, that's the nanobot water. It gave her Benjamin button disease and she'll be a fetus by the end of the month
Considering how up until like the mid 00's Jeph was constantly improving as an artist, it's fricking wild how badly his art has stagnated.
Community consensus was it's intentional. There's a marked backslide to the current level of quality which he's held at a newspaper syndication level of unchanging
I wouldn't say it's intentional, in that would require active decision making. He's just passively slid into generally doing less work, almost certainly not coincidentally around the time that he shifted from being primarily supported by ad revenue and merch to Patreon. Why illustrate 9 types of bread when 3 will do? Why check references, I know what my characters look like? And so on.
And this is the lazy-ass version of the same shop, 10 years later (in real life - strip time, a few months at most). Good job, Gephhy!
I'm just waiting for the unclimactic reveal that these people's lives have been intertwined for awhile and they never knew.
I actually fricking laughed at the milk comic. What's wrong with me?
My guess it's because it's an innocent joke
So where's the porn of them making out and fricking on webcam?
Look in the catalog, the local drawfriend has a few pictures in that milieu
The drawthread I looked at (Mad Mod OP) didn't have anything, what am I missing?
Oh sorry, meant the archive. Look for catbox links in past threads. https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/131668584/#q131669606
I fricking love you.
I do what I can. The artist is pretty prolific and is in a lot of these threads, but I don't think they've ever posted a full download of their work.
That Marigold alone will keep me fed for the rest of the week.
https://files.catbox.moe/rjkv82.png
you sonovabitch
You bastard. I forgive you because you gave us something great, but why you gotta do that?
Frick, I lost
Fuuuuuuuck yes.
insanely good, there's such a softness to the right image, the expressions and line-weight are perfect. good show anon you know how to nail sketches of marigold and aurelia sucking each others boobs
Sana graduating makes this fake vtubers storyline extra aggravating.
Want I'm more interested to know is why Jeff's second wife left him
The better question is how he tricked two people into marrying him
I remember the "this is me" memes, haven't really paid attention, does redhead actually have a dick or is it just a joke?
The creator has gone out of their way to give any conclusive statement vis a vis Claire's genitals and present/future plans for those genitals. Also this redhed is the transgender girl's mother, she just looks 20something instead of 50something because the artist is a hack.
>not to give
why am I here at one in the morning, I have an 8AM meeting
That's Claire's mom there but Claire either does or did have one. It isn't a joke in the context of the comic.