13 Responses to 169 | Sewage Conspiracy

  1. Thorin Mason Schmidt says:

    I am blind, so I had to double-check the speech bubble. I wasn’t expecting a cogent question from Lawyer Lady.

    • mvandinter says:

      I apologize for discombobulating you, Thorin.

      • Stephen says:

        I’m guessing it was sheer shock at the rudeness displayed

        • evileeyore says:

          I;m betting Lawyer Lady understands that enjoyment of one’s job leads to doing a better job. For instances she lives to destroy the spirit and morale of companies that hire her, and she excels at this.

          • Stephen says:

            Isn’t she there as the HR part of the interview board?

            DeeDee is there as part of some plot to take DeeDee down or keep her quiet with makework

            DeCaf is the actual manager responsible for programming and primary evaluation of the interviewee

            And

            Lawyer Lady is probably working as the HR/Legal Officer here- probably doing any payroll, legal & admin parts of the interview as well as joint evaluation of the candidate

            Geek Fortress must be rolling in the cash if they can afford an External Lawyer to be doing the HR function in an interview

  2. Stephen says:

    Well,

    “I’ll stand” loses the interview immediately. Then she insults the company, it’s personnel and it’s product. Guess she decided she doesn’t want the job or is being forced to be here

    Wasn’t expecting the “I’m only here because they’ll cut my food stamp/benefits/daddy will be angry otherwise” type of interviewee after all that previous intro

    And if she really is a corporate terrorist them she is terrible at infiltration

    With that attitude, she’d find it hard to work anywhere where Daddy or Mummy aren’t pulling strings

    But…..maybe it was the Mighty Intercom’s behavior made her decide “No way”?

    • mvandinter says:

      This strip was inspired by an actual interview I was part of 10 years ago. And, yes, I was an artist sitting in on a programmer interview.

      • Stephen says:

        Well, at least she hasn’t spat in anyone’s eye and/or challenged DeeDee to a fist fight in the car park, so it’s not the worst car crash of an interview I’ve heard of yet…

        But, yeah, I can believe it’s based on a true story. Easily

        I can also believe that Darth Advocatus just got shocked into acting as a real interview board member in disbelief at the sheer rudeness

        Maybe there’s hope for Evil Lawyer Lady yet?

        Naahhhhh…..

      • Frank says:

        Really? My god. And condolances.

  3. evileeyore says:

    So I’m gonna put on my Advocatus Diaboli hat for a moment…

    Presuming “sewage” wasn’t meant as an insult, they are correct. One does not have to enjoy sewage to be a good sewage engineer.

    However, donning my Advocatus Angelus hat… sewage isn’t meant to enjoyed. Games are. Now, someone could be a genius at designing systems and mechanics and then so long as there are other good programmers who enjoy games and can identify enjoyable systems/mechanics, a genius with no passion for the enjoyment of the games could be a good designer. But I kinda feel like their skills might be better suited elsewhere…

    • Stephen says:

      Guess we’ll see how it goes next Monday!

      Personally speaking after the “I’ll stand” crack at the start, the only way I’d offer her a job is if I had to because she was related to (or sleeping with) someone too important to annoy

      The insults that came straight after just scream “too toxic to hire”

      Meh, I’ve worked with far worse co-workers though they didn’t usually fail the interview within the first five seconds

  4. Frank says:

    Dee Dee is really pitching in. Good for her!

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