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Actually, I’ve got a case of the Capitalism. (It’s terminal.)
No it isn’t comrade. Join your local socialist groups (unless they’re MLs who think Stalin was good and China is a country to emulate, in which case, find another group who are sane and actually socialist).
At least, I refuse to believe it’s terminal!
Wishing you love and solidarity from Australia 💪
Ah, there’s a Capitalism for every day of the week!
I… You know what we should make a combination everclear/whatever they call those drinks for old people like ensure. Call it The Mondays, sell em by the case. As business supplements.
Napkin and lighter included!
they’re for DRINKING snoons. so you vomit. so you get out of meetings. if you want to try the fast way, you gotta bring your own supplies.
Leaning into the old because I refuse to use “reclaimed” incel 4chan speak
I witnessed the cesspits from whence that shit fomented, back in the days of gamergate, and will not touch it with a 100 foot pole.
Ah, makes sense why this way of speaking feels so gross to me
Ooh interesting, what do you mean by the 4chan speak? Is it the maxxing thing?
“Maxxing,” “mogging,” “-pilled.” Amongst many others. I’ve even seen this language on billboards and the seepage of sewage into the mainstream is mind-boggling.
Then again those stupid psyop fucks infiltrated Xitter, tumblr, etc. over a decade ago.
Chud-speak is funny to people because of how absurd it is, that’s why it’s penetrated so deeply into mainstream culture
That’s the point of reclamation, to take something away from the toxic ducks (thanks autocorrect, I’ll stick with that). Why wouldn’t we do it?
These terms were originally heavily used as heavy right wing 4chan terms, largely circulating in hate circle jerks (which is like 50% of 4chan anyways). Largely associated with millenial incel culture.
Gen Z proceeded to take these terms and parody the fuck out if them, effectively mocking incel culture and turning it into a huge joke. Thus then became mainstream and its largely acted as a very successful humiliation tactic towards the hateful groups.
Think stuff like all the “chad” memes but applying it to silly stuff, like intense cuts of a random chair or a porta-potty, x-pilled terms, etc.
All their terms have been mocked into oblivion, you cant really use the terms without just sounding like a gen z meme now.
An example of when millennials did a similiar thing was mocking the shit out of gen x biker/trucker hyper masculine culture and turning it into an ironic joke. IE the skeleton “my body is a machine that turns x into y” jokes, or ironic memes of edgy skeletons/wolves/etc. Three moons shirt, those things.
10/10, I fucking love how culture can do stuff like this over time lol
I turned my bathroom into a spare bedroom that I now rent out to VRBOmaxxing my life. It more than covers the porta-potty rent since I because porta-potty pilled.
I mean I do love The Pack
Is that where spelling goes to die? People were ‘maxing’ their caffeine decades before whatever vapid influencerati re-coined the badly-written version. I still am not sure it was spelled wrong knowingly.
Its not even being old its just being aware. If only they knew
I’m fully aware, this comic is the demonstration of why I do it. I try to get all the white women in my life to also because that inflicts extra psychic damage to a certain kind of person
The writers of Superman comics did something similar to the KKK back in the day
With what was posted there, it’s enough for me that it originated on 4chan at all. Part of me wants to tell people what kind of place the rickroll came from, but then I’d be hard pressed to explain why on Earth I ever went there. You can’t separate all evolved cultural trends from that place, but there is just no way it’s ever going to sit right with me.
shivers
Its just knowing what things mean. The people who talk like this usually have no idea where this shit comes from.
The comic looks more like a Sharty work, given its use of traced elements.
“I was there, 4000 years ago”
I am glad that when I did a team shuffile I was left out of team meetings so now I have no meeting at all.
This is better than winning the lottery.
If you won the lottery and wisely invested the money, you could live off of it, quit your job, and also not have to go to team meetings.
Problem with that is you wouldn’t be able to win the lottery unless you’re buying tickets, and in that case you would probably not be a natural at that wisely investing money thing.
Maybe. I’m good at odds and investing. I don’t follow the lottery odds, but there are times when it actually is worth it to buy tickets. Rare, but occasional.
Like when the pot is super small? I buy a ticket maybe once every few years to dream and chat with my friend about what we’d do, etc etc
i’d literally have to run the numbers. pot versus ticket price versus specific odds of ticket that day. you become more lotto obsessed than the people who just do scratchers. it’s the same kind of actuarial bullshit the people running the numbers do.
Does anyone have my stapler?
At my job I basically never have meetings since I’m a resource to do work and not technically a “team member” on any projects. Recently, some of my younger coworkers were talking about doing 8am stand-ups with the whole department to allow people to chip in about eachother’s work, and I almost lost it.
I always put a shirt when on company calls — I wouldn’t trust the camera not suddenly turning on (or myself — not turning the camera on by accident).
Not pants tho — they are staying in the closet.
“Donald Duck-ing it.”
Well, it is a bit weird to keep only the bottom half of your fur-suit on.
I’ve been on the other end of that lol, dude came on shirtless, freaked and left the meeting.
They scream?
Zoom meetings have always been pants-optional.
Camera can’t turn on if it’s not plugged in!
Flock camera proceeds to raise outside the window.
Flock already knows what my buttholes look like, I sent them a complementary jar
Happy grinder noises
shotgun racks
I wouldn’t even trust that honestly.
What? You don’t trust that without a webcam, there is no webcam? Like, do you think the detached webcam has a magical power crystal and wireless data transfer capabilities? Like I’m paranoid but that’s too far for me.
Yes. I’m a very paranoid person.
I put tape over mine.
Honestly, having your chest covered in tape is probably going to raise more concerns in the online meeting than going shirtless would.
Yes but if they ask. It’s gender confirming care and how dare they?!
I thought it was funny at work because they send little plastic slide covers with the company logo to everyone. I joked that they got tired of how ugly the tape looked and the tape glue was probably damaging something with the leased laptops.
Sticky note. Less residue
Stick-on sliding lens covers are super cheap
But less fun and less honest
Put the pants on the back of the chair as a power move. They can’t see that you’re not wearing pants, but they can see you’re not wearing those and wonder
LPT: blow on your mug of gin and tonic before carefully taking sips.
A screwdriver looks like orange juice when you can’t smell it.
Yep that’s why it exists. American petroleum engineers and techs working in Arab states where alcohol is banned. It’s also why it’s called that since screwdrivers are used by almost everyone.
There’s no clear origin to the name. Both tales on Wikipedia refer to using a screwdriver to stir the drink at work.
While there’s no clear origin I can certainly tell you why they would keep calling it a screwdriver while hiding their drinking around their Arabian ESL colleagues
I had a professor who did complex math for energy exploration in Saudi Arabia and apparently you can legally buy a still permit if you have the cash to do so. That’s how all of the Saudi royalty gets behind prohibition I guess.
Huh. TIL.
A screwdriver being the thing that drives screws?
Probably not, they likely mean the alcoholic drink
That looks nothing like orange juice
There are some orange juice brands here that kinda look like that. If you squeezed it yourself it’d look pretty close.
If you had something like squash or mi waidi (?) mixed with water it looks the same.
If they mention it, complain you don’t make enough and have to buy really shitty, watery orange juice and they should be ashamed that they’ve humiliated you, etc… etc…
Now you get to drink during calls AND you’re making more money.
Maybe that’s how it looks in the US. US-Americans don’t consume natural things lol.
Um. I don’t remember the last thing I ate that I didn’t make from scratch. I’m in California though, your argument applied more to my neighbors when I lived in Utah. I met this dude who made salsa from all canned ingredients and when he was done it was thinner than water. Nasty shit. Claimed to be from San Diego, but dude was adopted by the whitest whiteys that ever drank bleach.
No, a screwdriver being a mixture of orange juice and vodka.
And I thought Ncuti Gatwa’s version looked weird.
Ohh I remember being the only one with their camera off while people spoke this kinda crap too!
Now in a new job that doesn’t have meetings. At all. I think our manager protects us from them. Or perhaps he protects the rest of the company from us?
“And what’s behind that door?”
“Damn you are new, that’s HerbGrower’s place, we don’t go there.”
Not just me, there is a whole team of neurodivergency in this room.
Richmond!
I think our manager protects us from them.
Most (good) managers don’t want to be in these meetings any more than you do. Especially since they’d have to be the one running it and doing a lot of the talking. Manager might just be protecting themself.
Most (good) managers don’t want to be in these meetings any more than you do.
I must not have met a good one, cuz mine are always suggesting we meet for something that should be a teams message or email
I must not have met a good one
Yeah, good ones are rare.
a job without meetings?! 🤩
Being a professional hitman does have its perks.
Oh God I feel this in my bones.
Oh his screen is in the bottom right corner
I’ve heard global thermonuclear armageddon isn’t such a bad way to go.
Depends how close you are to ground zero.
The farther you are, the more it sucks.
Luckily I live a stones throw away from the largest oil refinery in Europe
Dude got culture shocked so much he became Hollowed.
don’t give up, skeleton!
Zoom meetings feel like a farce created by a demon to slowly extract our souls from our bodies over the span of years. That would explain why I’m so tired after “meeting-heavy” days.
This art style reminds me a lot of Animatrix.
Apple laptop, really?
Windows isn’t really fit for development, so. And it kind of sucks for just day to day usage. And most IT departments aren’t great, so linux is out.
Many employers don’t give you a choice. Mine did when I started but took it away a few years later.
