Nah, in this company you call in the Lawyers to deal with things a competent management team would have already dealt with, so since this is a case for legal, that means the management team will try to deal with it themselves.
And Baron is one of those management team members….
He pulled a knife defending his own face. He’s the “Little Man”.
Normally, pulling a weapon at the workplace would be one o’ them there “HR Events”, but if it’s just the three of them… and Princess started it… she may be willing to pretend none of it happened.
And since I don’t see anyone as listed as being HR… that’s probably Princess due to inherent sexism in corpoland. (I’ve never seen a man in an HR position in my life, every corp I’ve worked for that had an HR department – even if it was just one person – it was a woman).
And here is where we find out they just rarely show up to work and they’re a complete Himbo like Hemsworth’s character in Ghostbusters (2016).
A fist fight over work quality or some such can be passed over in some of the rougher workplaces out there as workers caring about their work
But pulling what appears to be a genuine combat knife on someone?
No, that’s one of those “serious consequences” moments. Police arrests, escorting off the premises, potential charges and immediate dismissal are all on the table
Baron and Princess are both still management team and their goofing off doesn’t excuse Rex, whom is a grown man, from responsibility for his own actions
Huh, Princess is listed as “upper management” when all she does is sit at the front desk. “Office manager” is today’s euphemism for “secretary”. I think she’d have more real (if indirect) power as an actual secretary to actual functioning management. Though that would require her to do actual work. That’s the second thing I thought when reading the staff directory again. The first thing was “team? what team?” Princess, for one, is not a team player.
BTW, that whom ought to be a who since that subsentence makes Rex a direct object again. (He is a grown man, not him is a grown man.)
Anyway, I agree that pulling a knife here isn’t called for. It shouldabeen a Q-tip. A really large Q-tip.
Why are everybody expecting this place to function by normal rules as to things like acceptable behaviour in the workplace? Absolutely nothing we have seen so far indicates that to be the case (rather on the contrary).
Hah! Funny enough I did used to* carry a bowie knife to all of my jobs, it was sheathed on my backpack strap. Now it’s rests in the back compartment since “has a knife prominently on pack” is code for “wants to engage in violence, shoot on sight” by the cops.
However, the only time I used to pull it was ironically when I worked in McDonald’s. We weren’t allowed to use the kitchen equipment when were eating our meals, and I frequently bought a large hero from the sub place next door. Well, I wanted to cut it in half, took our bread knife one day and was yelled at about it. So the next day I pulled out my bowie to cut my sandwich. Manager was not pleased I had a “knife on the premises”, I told them they had 2 choices, provide us with adequate cutlery, or shut up when we provided the cutlery ourselves.
I got away with sassing that manager since I was the only person they had who didn’t complain about closing, worked every position, was never late, never high/drunk, and didn’t quit after two weeks of closing.
I work from home now, so technically I have more weapons at my place of work than I’ve had in the past… but I don’t technically “bring them here”… they live here too.
Nope,
Way too far
Sack him
Yeah, but I think maybe we should get the Lawyer Lady back to deal with it… legally.
Nah, in this company you call in the Lawyers to deal with things a competent management team would have already dealt with, so since this is a case for legal, that means the management team will try to deal with it themselves.
And Baron is one of those management team members….
Did he just pull a knife defending a boys’ doll toy?
I think she was threatening Rex (not the toy) with the nail polish remover.
He pulled a knife defending his own face. He’s the “Little Man”.
Normally, pulling a weapon at the workplace would be one o’ them there “HR Events”, but if it’s just the three of them… and Princess started it… she may be willing to pretend none of it happened.
And since I don’t see anyone as listed as being HR… that’s probably Princess due to inherent sexism in corpoland. (I’ve never seen a man in an HR position in my life, every corp I’ve worked for that had an HR department – even if it was just one person – it was a woman).
And here is where we find out they just rarely show up to work and they’re a complete Himbo like Hemsworth’s character in Ghostbusters (2016).
evileeyore, if I understand you correctly, this comic is in desperate need of a “Himbo”. I’ll see what I can do.
Regardless,
A fist fight over work quality or some such can be passed over in some of the rougher workplaces out there as workers caring about their work
But pulling what appears to be a genuine combat knife on someone?
No, that’s one of those “serious consequences” moments. Police arrests, escorting off the premises, potential charges and immediate dismissal are all on the table
Baron and Princess are both still management team and their goofing off doesn’t excuse Rex, whom is a grown man, from responsibility for his own actions
Huh, Princess is listed as “upper management” when all she does is sit at the front desk. “Office manager” is today’s euphemism for “secretary”. I think she’d have more real (if indirect) power as an actual secretary to actual functioning management. Though that would require her to do actual work. That’s the second thing I thought when reading the staff directory again. The first thing was “team? what team?” Princess, for one, is not a team player.
BTW, that whom ought to be a who since that subsentence makes Rex a direct object again. (He is a grown man, not him is a grown man.)
Anyway, I agree that pulling a knife here isn’t called for. It shouldabeen a Q-tip. A really large Q-tip.
Why are everybody expecting this place to function by normal rules as to things like acceptable behaviour in the workplace? Absolutely nothing we have seen so far indicates that to be the case (rather on the contrary).
True.
Thorfinn has hit the nail on the head!
P.S. The real life Rex didn’t carry a Bowie knife. It was a folding pocket knife.
Hah! Funny enough I did used to* carry a bowie knife to all of my jobs, it was sheathed on my backpack strap. Now it’s rests in the back compartment since “has a knife prominently on pack” is code for “wants to engage in violence, shoot on sight” by the cops.
However, the only time I used to pull it was ironically when I worked in McDonald’s. We weren’t allowed to use the kitchen equipment when were eating our meals, and I frequently bought a large hero from the sub place next door. Well, I wanted to cut it in half, took our bread knife one day and was yelled at about it. So the next day I pulled out my bowie to cut my sandwich. Manager was not pleased I had a “knife on the premises”, I told them they had 2 choices, provide us with adequate cutlery, or shut up when we provided the cutlery ourselves.
I got away with sassing that manager since I was the only person they had who didn’t complain about closing, worked every position, was never late, never high/drunk, and didn’t quit after two weeks of closing.
I work from home now, so technically I have more weapons at my place of work than I’ve had in the past… but I don’t technically “bring them here”… they live here too.
Rex, a man who never found a situation he couldn’t escalate.
Frank is right. Rex is a troublemaker. I need to give him more subplots.
And he has such fun at it too.