I had not heard of Remi Wolf before, I’m now listening to Remi Wolf and I’m quite enjoying it.
I’m wondering if nobody half sane saying they agree with statement 64, and it not having recommended Careers Advisor before could possibly be not entirely unrelated.
To satisfy my curiousity, can some dedicated reader of the strip let me know the likely identity of the item on the “Keep Wiping!” screen that ends in “XCX”?
Or does it just mean 910? I distinctly remember that when I was young I thought that e.g. the MCMLXVIII at the end of the television programmes was pronounced micklemicklevex or something similar. I was part relieved and part disappointed when I found out what it actually signified (or maybe it actually WAS some kind of Masonic message sent by the BBC… – this episode of the Magic Roundabout has been approved for public consumption).
Also, I’m choosing to interpret various factors such as the system already having all Lottie’s interests and a custom Extra-Chibi Vampirella graphic as indications that Big Jobby has a Charlotte Grote Identification Algorithm, which has tripped an emergency alarm in panel 6.
I’m not sure to what purpose, but I have theories.
If Glyn has never seen the app say this before, logically it follows that the app did not recommend him for his job.
I mean, really, how many people are doing the jobs that aptitude tests recommended to them? I took one in high school that told me I should be a bus driver. I’ve never driven a bus in my life.
Though to be fair most of the jobs I’ve had over the years didn’t exist when I was in high school thirty years ago.
The one I took at secondary school (JIIG-CAL, if I recall correctly) told me I should be an astronomer. It told all my friends who were remotely sciencey that they should be astronomers, too. I still don’t know what I want to be.
Aptitude tests seem to imply that you should do what you love and are good at. But where would the brutal triumph be if you simply did what came easily?
I’m not all that surprised actually. Lottie with her life-honed detective skills, is a great reader of people, and likely would know what people are best sooted for, and want to do with their lives even before they have.
Me thinks this “Advisor of Careers” is much like the “Marketer of the Multilevels”, insomuch as most such consultations result in such advice and recruitment.
“Never said this before” — maybe we’re giving Glenn too little credit. Perhaps the wide-eyed ingenue thing is all a deft performance, and he’s actually a recruiter for an insidious global career-advising cult.
Meta won’t let us even see that link unless we are signed into an account and probably have the app installed too. Zuckerberg also ruined links to Facebook.
I AM A REAL CAREERS PROFESSIONAL AND I HAVE THOUGHTS
– Glenn’s expression in panel 7 is one we have all worn at some time or another
– Were I to be asked ‘what statement would you associate with your careers colleagues’, the statement ‘I believe I am right even when all evidence is to the contrary’ is not exactly the first statement that springs to mind
– It is true that the best way to break a programme of this nature is to answer honestly *but* to make sure you strongly disagree or agree with all the statements. You will get much more amusing results than lying outright.
– If any of my colleagues administered a test of this kind to a client and it came up with ‘careers advisor’ as the answer, they would laugh their baps off, not look horrified. They would then forcefully cast the software in question into the nearest body of water and then snark about it on social media.
– If you were to ask me which of Lottie and Glenn most reminds you of certain colleagues, it would 100% be Lottie every single time.
– Bobbinsverse characters who would make good careers advisors: McGraw, Daisy, Maggie, possibly Mildred
– Bobbinsverse characters who would make bad careers advisors: Tim, Desmond, Esther, possibly Mildred
– Bobbinsverse characters most likely to become a careers advisor: Esther.
This concludes my careers intervention, do have a nice day.
My dreams will be haunted for weeks to come by a winking tod exclaiming “Nang!” Thanks, JA.
Don’t forget the undigested corn kernel that makes up its single baby tooth. These little details matter!
I horrified even myself with that one
I did try to read it slowly, and I have impressions.
One of which is that Big Jobby is obviously smart, because of its large cranium.
That is clearly Big Head Tod
Just like geography teachers.
It’s career advisors all the way down!
Yes because any attempt to anything but that tends to leave people scared due to how you can see the shape of the world they do not see.
I had not heard of Remi Wolf before, I’m now listening to Remi Wolf and I’m quite enjoying it.
I’m wondering if nobody half sane saying they agree with statement 64, and it not having recommended Careers Advisor before could possibly be not entirely unrelated.
To satisfy my curiousity, can some dedicated reader of the strip let me know the likely identity of the item on the “Keep Wiping!” screen that ends in “XCX”?
Or does it just mean 910? I distinctly remember that when I was young I thought that e.g. the MCMLXVIII at the end of the television programmes was pronounced micklemicklevex or something similar. I was part relieved and part disappointed when I found out what it actually signified (or maybe it actually WAS some kind of Masonic message sent by the BBC… – this episode of the Magic Roundabout has been approved for public consumption).
One assumes Charli XCX, whom I quite like as well
“Keep Wiping” may be the greatest typo in the history of this comic. (And if it was deliberate, KUDOS.)
Also heh heh heh big jobby
And “flushed with success”.
“Wipe left to continue”. Well, almost.
This is Lottie’s karma for the “Fartzilla” era.
What would they run a server farm out of a resort?
Tax dodge, probably.
From now on, whenever I am required to fill out any sort of employee survey form, I will mentally translate the neutral option to “Wevvs”.
My organization does quarterly surveys, and I’m lobbying hard for “Wevvs” to replace “Unsure/Don’t know/NA”
Also, I’m choosing to interpret various factors such as the system already having all Lottie’s interests and a custom Extra-Chibi Vampirella graphic as indications that Big Jobby has a Charlotte Grote Identification Algorithm, which has tripped an emergency alarm in panel 6.
I’m not sure to what purpose, but I have theories.
It’s an adapted version of the Zambian simulation that she and Shauna “won”.
IT KNOWS
IT HAS SOLVED OUR HIDDEN ALGORITHM
IT MUST COMMUNE WITH US
ONE OF US
Hum… does this mean that Glenn is way more similar to Lottie than he looks?
Perhaps he has yet to surmount the Great Hill of Self-Confidence that Lottie had once crested.
If Glyn has never seen the app say this before, logically it follows that the app did not recommend him for his job.
I mean, really, how many people are doing the jobs that aptitude tests recommended to them? I took one in high school that told me I should be a bus driver. I’ve never driven a bus in my life.
Though to be fair most of the jobs I’ve had over the years didn’t exist when I was in high school thirty years ago.
The one I took at secondary school (JIIG-CAL, if I recall correctly) told me I should be an astronomer. It told all my friends who were remotely sciencey that they should be astronomers, too. I still don’t know what I want to be.
Sounds like you should be an astronomer.
You have not been charged for this service.
I’m an astronomer, and JIIGCAL or whatever it’s called told me I should be a forestry worker.
Took a wrong turn in not doing a physics degree, really.
Aptitude tests seem to imply that you should do what you love and are good at. But where would the brutal triumph be if you simply did what came easily?
Barefoot finger pistols, tray recherche
I’m not all that surprised actually. Lottie with her life-honed detective skills, is a great reader of people, and likely would know what people are best sooted for, and want to do with their lives even before they have.
I think chimney sweep might be the best-sooted job.
Is Lottie Salting the Battlefield with that gesture of triumph at the end?
No, she is blowing figurative smoke from the barrels of her J’ACCUSE guns.
Is this also on Page Eight?
(sadly, no. Unless I counted incorrectly it is page 9.)
I am happy to see that my obscure reference was comprehensible to the true conoisseur
“No one even half-sane” is that, like, a double negative?
Well, there is that “half”, so it’s a sesquinegative, perhaps…
Love the “OMG what has happened?” vibes coming off Glenn.
Lottie’s result is quite similar to the experience I related (in Monday’s comments). Does that mean…I should become a Mystery Solver?
Wordlessly, Glenn hands Charlotte his tablet, jacket and tie before fading away to nothing. He has found a successor, the curse is broken.
His last word, fading away on the rising wind: ‘naaaaaaaang’
Me thinks this “Advisor of Careers” is much like the “Marketer of the Multilevels”, insomuch as most such consultations result in such advice and recruitment.
“Never said this before” — maybe we’re giving Glenn too little credit. Perhaps the wide-eyed ingenue thing is all a deft performance, and he’s actually a recruiter for an insidious global career-advising cult.
Turks AND Caicos seems an embarrassment of riches. Just one would be fine.
Ah, the AI turned out to be a paperclipper. Has someone checked the w-values?
Black Metal?
Corpsepaint Grotte, please.
Visit https://instagram.com/badmachinery for two recent examples
Meta won’t let us even see that link unless we are signed into an account and probably have the app installed too. Zuckerberg also ruined links to Facebook.
I’ve put them up on Patreon in an unlocked post so you can see them now.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/65477733
Were there any “honest” answers given to that poor survey?
Are you saying you don’t think Lottie’s interested in mysteries?!?
While I enjoyed them all, that last panel cracked me up!
Charlotte was right about Glenn needing that cup of tea.
I AM A REAL CAREERS PROFESSIONAL AND I HAVE THOUGHTS
– Glenn’s expression in panel 7 is one we have all worn at some time or another
– Were I to be asked ‘what statement would you associate with your careers colleagues’, the statement ‘I believe I am right even when all evidence is to the contrary’ is not exactly the first statement that springs to mind
– It is true that the best way to break a programme of this nature is to answer honestly *but* to make sure you strongly disagree or agree with all the statements. You will get much more amusing results than lying outright.
– If any of my colleagues administered a test of this kind to a client and it came up with ‘careers advisor’ as the answer, they would laugh their baps off, not look horrified. They would then forcefully cast the software in question into the nearest body of water and then snark about it on social media.
– If you were to ask me which of Lottie and Glenn most reminds you of certain colleagues, it would 100% be Lottie every single time.
– Bobbinsverse characters who would make good careers advisors: McGraw, Daisy, Maggie, possibly Mildred
– Bobbinsverse characters who would make bad careers advisors: Tim, Desmond, Esther, possibly Mildred
– Bobbinsverse characters most likely to become a careers advisor: Esther.
This concludes my careers intervention, do have a nice day.
“I think it’s best you just take it slowly.” I’ve been doing my best to digest it. Fortunately, your work agrees with me.
A disturbing amount of this page has already been through the digestion process.
Just the thought of what actual career advice a Lottie Career Advisor would give is terrifying.
John… did you know about the careers quiz extravaganza that used to be called Fast Tomato, or did all of this come from your insane genius mind??
I’ve never heard of Fast Tomato!!
You turned watching The Emoji Movie into an opportunity for artistic growth!