A tailored result
Poor Glenn Durgan. It’s difficult to imagine that this experience won’t permanently alter him in the same way Peter Parker was messed up by that radioactive spider.
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Well, I’m pretty sure Lottie’s not a replicant… and I believe Dunning-Kruger is how we choose Presidents of the United States, for which Lottie’s not eligible on account of being extremely British. So that Meyers-Briggs type’s going to be carrying a lot of load here.
What if she was born on a trip to MouseWorld USA? She would be eligible to be elected King Mouse.
I’m pretty sure there’s a bit in the Constitution that says that anyone who’s ever used the phrase, “Huh yeah, I should bloody coco, George. Jog on,” is too British to be allowed to be President.
(The Founders’ Original Intent was Washington, not Jack’s father, but what can you do.)
I was thinking that we probably shouldn’t trust either the Meyers-Briggs or Voight-Kampf results because they’re going to be Dunning-Kruger-ed.
I fear Glenn may soon be feeling like a tortoise on its back in the desert.
And Lottie won’t be helping.
No. She’ll tell him about her mother.
Why isn’t she helping?
Why not? George Washington was a Brit.
Glenn looks totally defeated from just to a single glance from Lottie. I really feel sorry for this young and inexperienced career consultant. But Lottie is just awesome ♡. Too strong and powerful for anyone!
For a brief moment, I thought “I should have mugs clearly marked VISITORS for when I have visitors” until I remembered I’m a hermit.
All the more reason. Get one mug, and gaze at it occasionally, grateful you have no visitors. When visitors come round despite your efforts, make them share the mug. That sends the right message.
Is there a way to complete this assessment without touching “Jobby”?
Panel 4 gave me the irrational giggles even before I read the dialogue.
Jobby is a bit of a turd. Not their fault, it’s just how they were coded.
I’m guessing that Careers Plus did market research on what engages young people, and a certain emoji scored highly.
Of course, the focus groups may have intentionally messed with the researchers.
A sh*t icon for a sh*t job. Quel apropos!
Don’t use the word “turd” here. The preferred usage is “tod”.
For accessibility, I hope Jobby is also voiced by Sir Patrick Stewart.
Lest we forget, The Emoji Movie was written by the same person as The White Lotus. I watched it with my young nephew and was baffled at the time by how it was so well written for something that had no reason to exist at all.
Who’s Tod, and what did he do to deserve this indignity?
The fox from The Fox and the Hound? And, star in the most forgettable Disney movie?
(Or at least the most forgettable one that I haven’t actually forgotten.)
Hmm. Glenn has a script he must follow, and he hands the client a tablet. Not a lot of the consultant in this consulting gig. This seems very much like the telemarketing job I had when I was 19 – it was the only job I could get, and I hated every minute, but I needed to earn money to pay off a tuition debt and go back to college. That job convinced me to do everything possible to finish my degree. Perhaps Glenn dreams of ways to get out of this “career” as soon as he can.
My first thought was, “This guy’s going to be searching for his own new career by the time Lottie’s through with him”.
One definition of ‘consultant’ is: A person who borrows your watch and then you pay him to tell you the time.
Also, in panel 1, Lottie looks like she is about ready to unleash a J’accuse at her mother. Fortunately for all, she shows mercy.
Though I think that Mater Grote is a little disappointed – and concerned – that Lottie folded so easily.
I actually believe that she was sincerely touched by the “FOR YOU”. I’m guessing she has to make the most of these indirect bonding moments in whatever form they occur.
Surely by now, Mother is quite immune to all the poisons Lottie expresses.
You can see Karen holding her breath in panel 1, bracing for the explosion — then letting it out in a relieved sigh when Lottie caves.
Indeed. I was grooving on all the little facial expressions in this installment, and I’m not one to pick up on them easily.
I really do love Karen’s tension and then relief at knowing that someday Lottie is going to explode and destroy them all… but today is not that day.
I love how Lottie just utterly intimidates the poor career agent.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen for ages. All of it.
Poor Glenn/Glyn, he’s sweating.
In your standard chip, I’m far from certain that the nutrition is actually in the potato.
I Recently read a book about AI. Mostly it was about how it can go wrong. For example in visual recognition systems scientists have worked out a way of subtly changing a photo, so subtly that a human can’t see the difference, such that if you show the system a picture of a pickup truck, for example, the AI system will tell you that it’s an ostrich. And it will tell you this pick up truck is an ostrich with 90% confidence. They can also do that with voice recognition which might be worrying for anyone using ALEXA.
The book is called “You look like a thing and I love you” if anyone is interested. I have no financial interest in the book by the way.
I’ve just started reading that, and it’s wonderful. (Based on a wonderful blog, of course…)
“You look like a thing and I love you” is a wonderful AI-generated attempt at a valentine heart candy message from Janelle Shane.
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Oh! I was about to link her website but I see that the book is by her. This all makes sense to me now. Her newsletter is great.
I love that book too and showed it to two of my colleagues who do work with AI and they immediately bought it too.
Panels one and two are a tender little mother/daughter story all their own.
Rob, this strip reads as a collab with your Marketeer strip. (I mean this as high praise o/c)
Gotta love that helpful little turd.
Don’t use the word “turd” here. The preferred usage is “tod”.
I like how Lottie’s rage appears to be distorting the kitchen behind her, and the look of relief on Karen’s face in panel 2!
Also I’m imagining the team at Careers Plus coming up with the name Jobby, someone pointing out what that means in Scotland (well, and elsewhere, but mostly there) and instead of a rethink the bosses just going “and THERE’S our character design!”
Relief? To me, that looks like utter shock.
To me it looks like disappointment as Karen was hoping for anger here.
The microwave is straining to stay afloat
If Glenn’s using Myers Briggs, Lottie’s scorn is bang on target. It’s woo, pure and simple. The VK test has more solid scientific foundations; don’t get me started…
I always tell people my Myers-Briggs type is SMTP. It’s a far more useful answer to anyone who understands it than the actual thing.
Saying M-B is woo is like saying astrology is woo.
Each is a technology whose purpose you just don’t understand. You flatter yourself imagining you do. But people are more complicated than shovels, and what works for understanding shovels does not work for understanding people. The role of random numbers in a technology is frequently not obvious.
As a hint: if you completely scrambled all the entries in your newspaper horoscope, every day, it would not be even a little less useful to the people who read it eagerly each day. No one would notice, few would care if told, and those who would are as confused as you.
Poor, poor, fool.
“The girl looks like that one vampire chick from the comics, but vertically compressed. And clothes. And, she brought me tea, and touched my hands!”
But, he has no idea of Lottie’s proclivities. He probably doesn’t even know what proclivities are.
There is no question that meeting Chibi Vampirella will change Glenn Durgan’s life forever.
It would change anybody’s!
What now?
[googles]
[Sulu]Oh, my!
I laughed a lot at the methodology list in panel 4!
I did a full on giggle-snort at Dunning Kruger!
Hi,
I missed the Schartz-Metterklume Method.
The ploop!
So, touching “JOBBY” makes him go “PLOOP”…
Interesting way to explore a career path.
Poor Glen seems uncomfortable, perhaps he should take the survey to figure out his career.
“You just go at your own speed, pet.” Is not forever in my lexicon.
Absolute favorite line in the strip