A quick breakout
I hope you like today’s product placement. Still available at Topatoco!
Lottie’s new way with coffee may be a by product of her incessant enforced police brew-making in Wicked Things. She did her 10000 hours.
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Terrible what Boris has done to the British Ladder Council.
See, Lottie, that’s what you get for being a basically competent human being. Responsibilities!
“Cratchit, I have no choice… but to raise your salary!”
I get where she’s coming from. Literally every time in my life I’ve been in a leadership position it has been a disaster. I’ve told my employer than under no circumstances do I ever want to be anyone’s boss.
Don’t tit about on ladders!
Nice to see that some things are universal, like the head manager at a coffee roastery will be aggressively bearded, tattooed, and name Barnaby.
And Barnaby apparently can pull an espresso from hammerspace.
I was impressed by that as well.
He keeps a freshly-pulled shot hidden under his beanie at all times, just in case. He has to replenish it every 15 minutes, but it’s worth it.
In Portland Oregon those are requirements for male Baristi. Also for bicycle couriers, head shop proprietors, actual barmen, and plumbers.
Also for all those other members of The Decemberists
I think the list might be shorter if you listed who wasn’t required in Portland to sport that uniform.
Damnit, you might be right!
(That town has gone to the dogs since the hipsters took over.)
Mad Beans – I really liked their debut album.
I saw their tribute band Lunatic Legumes once at a festival. One should never meet their heroes.
I kinda hope Lottie will accept. That job is good and she likes it, plus Barnaby seems to be a great person.
There is something very strange going on with the lines on Lottie’s top. Am I the only one who sees it?
It got appreciative shout-outs when it first appeared!
https://badmachinery.com/comic/imagine-beans-on-fire/#comment-5781
It’s the Monkey Island “Stan” effect: https://youtu.be/pAsw16y3U-c
Lottie slinging java is putting its powers to much better use than trying to upsell gullible pirates on porthole defoggers, at least.
Can I buy a British Ladder Council poster anywhere? Cause i’d like to. They have a message that I feel anyone, anywhere, can get behind.
That’s what the Topatoco link above is to. Also, pool safety starring Lottie, from the case currently re-running on GoComics.
I have a vague memory that when British Ladder Council first appeared, I asked for the opportunity to buy a sticker of it, to stick onto my ladder. Alas the demand for such things was deemed too pitifully small to be worth it. Probably for the best.
Lottie has form, its a wonder she got a job at all.
In the USA with our “social credit” system of credit bureaus and public court records and arrest records ol’ Lottie would be able to sling bean bags but never get a better position. Never.
Lottie likes the smell. What better way to pick a job. Wish I’d done the same.
You’d never get a job as chief engineer at Abbey Mills pumping station with an attitude like that.
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Well, I hope not…
Who among us has never felt the creeping dread of their manager asking for a quick word?
Stronk girl! Coffee shop?
Ah the triumphant return of the British Ladder Council poster. I may or may not have adorned one of the ladders at work with my own hand drawn version.
YES! My favourite poster makes an appearance!
I know, right? The poster was the first thing I noticed in today’s comic!
I can relate to this: I have this job because I can’t handle responsibility! Oh no I’m kind of good at it and can’t say no so I have more responsibility! Ad infinitum….
Great bit of supplication by Lottie in panel 5.
There is actual welling. That’s not easy to pull off on short notice.
Lottie has skills.
Hmmm. Tough choice between coffee bean aroma and the lure of mysteries.
There may still be room in the life of a coffee barista for the occasional solving.
Perhaps one might find a niche as the solver of coffee mysteries
Retail management: enough responsibility to catch all the blame; not enough power to be useful.
When my neighbor nearly concussed himself with an expandable ladder several years ago, I gifted him a British Ladder Council public service poster. Last I knew, he had it on his mantle.