Grrl Power #695 – Ordnance, schmordnance
Merry Christmas Eve to those of you celebrating the holiday. Merry “you probably have at least part of the week off anyway” to those of you who don’t. And Merry double overtime to those of you in category 3.
I think the idea that the guy is sent to mine something insubstantial is funnier than it should be. How would one mine “warp”? I think the first draft had “gravity mines” but I thought some people might confuse that with explosive mines floating in space that are attracted to ships via gravity or something, so I changed it. Still, it makes me imagine the guy with a ball and chain swinging a pickaxe at… something, then loading a minecart up with hazy blobs of purple energy.
I had considered showing the fight, but I thought it would wind up being 10-12 pages of decent but not groundbreaking action. I mean I’m not exactly Yusuke Murata or Masahiko Nakahira over here. Yet.
Given the foregone conclusion, I figured it’d be okay to skip this time around. We’ll get to see Cora fight eventually.
Cora is very much a combat monster, much in the way Dabbler is, but unlike her, Cora is a focused DPS, whereas Dabbler is a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Cora has some tankiness, but she’s most comfortable as ranged damage. She’s the ranger, essentially. Minus the healing spells and communing with nature stuff.
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Hopefully Cora’s history of saving Fracture Station will ensure the officer doesn’t get too curious about Sydney and her “decorative” orbs. Cora doesn’t seem to be letting on that Sydney might have had anything to do with the takedown of the thug gang, and I suspect she has good reason not to do so.
She already established a few pages back that it would be a bad idea to let the whole universe know just how overpowered Sydney’s orbs are. This holds true even for the police force of a space station where Cora is held in very high esteem. Cora wants to keep Sydney completely off everybody’s radar, at least until she gets Sydney back home.
Wouldn’t sending the surviving thugs off to work in the warp mines tick off the Intergalactic Brotherhood of Warp Miners? In my state there have been proposals put forth from time to time to have convicts perform labor for the state government, only to have the government employee unions fight to keep such labors for union members only. It wouldn’t surprise me to see the same sort of labor action happening in outer space.
Sydney is generally less inclined to blow limbs off non-serious threats let alone kill. I strongly suspect most of this is Cora’s work and the one living thug is Sydney’s contribution.
Also Sydney’s ordnance is not of the kind that leafs bloody stains. She has the total annihilation kind.
Depends on how much Sydney slams them on the ground with lighthook before flinging them into the air for skeet shooting.
Maxim 34: If you’re leaving scorch-marks, you need a bigger gun.
In the first panel, Vremp says: She attacked us. He doesn´t say: they attacked us.
Sydney did nothing or nearly nothing. Protect herself with Mr. Bubble and little more, I would say.
Merry Christmas, holidays, winter solstice, Saturnalia…
I’m surprised Halo didn’t put up her shield and just walked through them, but ok….
Perhaps she did… Shields up… so… want me to… nevermind… *grabs jalapenos*
I’m pretty sure one of the drawbacks to her shield is that she can only move it if she forms the entire thing above ground. Making the shield while standing results in a stationary shield anchored to that spot, unless the ground it was attached to ceases to be there.
Actually, no. We’ve seen Sydney use her shield while standing and it simply forms a flat surface above the ground but under her feet.
I think that the ‘immovability’ of the shield is based on what Sydney thinks it should do – it might be a unconscious thing for now. eg if she wants to ‘stay put’ it does (Max and the meeting/the megaton blast at Alera prime – if she is walking OR flying it moves and can be moved by exterior forces – the kaiju multi beam when she was floating in front of it and when the ship hit her a few pages ago . That may also be the reason the shield took ‘extra damage’ from the first megaton blast (red section) but ;;the inside kinetics and the outside are still disconnected
Sydney never actually hit the ships herself, she just caused them to hit each other
How much of this was Sydney?
At least 25%
She wouldn’t stand for anything less.
Hmm. Not so sure about that. The degree of murderous violence involved seems out of character for Sydney.
In fact, wasn’t this one of the things discussed in the comments when she was fighting the big alien things on the dead Alari world? That Sydney’s full-power blasts were horrifying weapons of destruction, and that she might hesitate to use them on a more personal scale?
Gatlinggun mode of the PPO could have been used here though. There is a lot of scorch marks and some fire remains. No clear signs of the hentai orb being misused during the fight despite the company.
She was overly violent and dangerous before she had the powers (if you remember WAY early on when they were discussing that she had an assault charge and the police report put it down as apparently rather extreme, https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/416).
Sydney has been given several examples of collateral damage and even a friendly fire incident (when Hex got freaked out with the ‘tree rat’ she hit a couple of her “allies”) so she is going to be a little cautious about using the PPO in an urban area let alone on a “space station” where she doesn’t know how thick/strong the walls are.
Because of this and the fact that she wants to be mostly a Cop rather than a Soldier her preference will be for non-lethal and I think she’ll be bit pissed at Cora right now.
Assuming Sydney took two seconds to think it through then yes.
IIRC when they were demoing powers (tank) Sydney did have to flip an internal ‘switch’ in order to fire her PPO. I just don’t know the levels of firepower she can control. We all can be pretty assured that the Orbs do interact with her brain and nervous system
Sydney is the reason there’s a thug for the police to arrest.
Okay but now we need to know where she stuffed Sydney. . . .
I just looked at the 2x on Patreon. Sydney is there to the right of Cora. It looks like she stowed the orbs, though.
Guess that conversation about Interstellar War for her balls stuck with her.
I wonder where Sydney would have hidden the Orbs? She isn’t carrying her tube. Also, is Sydney okay with that much carnage?
That’s what I was thnking. She never struck me as that callous. Yes, she killed Squidward, but he kept attacking her, even when it must have been clear to him how that fight woould end. She DID deliberately kill hundreds of drones in an attempt to level up, and it was never actually established those were unmanned. (And they only attacked her when she moved to attack the ship, so you could say Halo was the bad guy/gal there, but it was all fairly abstract, like a video game.) But this wholesale, in-your-face slaughter of human-sized, often humanoid beings… If Sydney’s okay with that, she’s a lot darker than I thought she was.
Obviously Cora doesn’t agree with Batman on the whole ‘no killing’ rule. I’m sure that between them, they could have defeated those thugs without any loss of life, but by the look of it, they didn’t even try! I mean, ‘a RIB’?!
We’ve seen Sydney wearing a “What Would Deadpool Do? jacket.
Deadpool would do this.
Well, presumably medical tech is a lot better on the Fracture, or Cora would be in more trouble for that level of carnage. Either that, or this place has got a serious wild-west frontier law thing going on.
If this represents recoverable injuries, despite the level of overkill, that’s when you see law enforcement going “You also broke the law, but since you beat up people who manifestly deserved it, have a token punishment so it doesn’t look like I did nothing.”
Looked at the 2X, myself, and it might be Sydney, and it might not be Sydney. Not enough definition to confirm or deny.
You don’t see them, because you are too far away, from Sydney.
She’s standing next to her, first panel, left to right it’s Vremp, Officer stufing him in the van, Officer littering ticket, Cora and Halo.
thank god she used hers. if halo used the save attacks as she did on the aliens from the planet…………
“I’m going to call you ‘Ticket’ from now on Cora, because you’re so ‘FINE’!”
“oh oh, she’s so fine, she’s so fine she blows my mind!”
Literally! Literally!
“Hey Ticket, Hey, Hey, Hey Ticket!”
“Surely you are a parking ticket, because you’ve got ‘fine’ written all over you.” Some compliments just don’t translate across cultures well.
I wonder how Sidney is taking this. Sure, she’s a big fan of the idea of overkill, but actually exploding some thugs right in front of her might be a bit much for her stomach…
Yeah, Sydney needs this like a hole in the head.
Wait. Sye u6st made a hole in the head of one of the kaiju and flew right threw.
I think she’s fine and this may be the result of her orb tentacle disarming technique lying in the center of the top panel.
Well, the fact that only ONE guy is in hazmat gear indicates she didn’t lose her lunch, at least. Yet.
A Ranger without their magic is just a Fighter that focusses on archery.
Those exist. Fighters make very good archers.
or if you play pathfinder cora is a gunslinger
Oh dear, carnage like that is defiately littrring.
What about Sydney? She’s likely to develop some kind of ptsd because of this, skyscraper size squidlike aliens is one thing, but somewhat humanoid thugs redered to gibs is another.
Shieldwalking trough them could have given the same result except melting. Imagine crushing between an impenetrable force barrier and heavy construction elements. A grinder either way.
Makes me wonder if Sydney helped with the fight or not
Sydney delt with the surviving ones.
The fire suggests Pew Pew has a ‘low’ and a single ‘pew’ mode.
Cora delt with the deadly ones with deadly force.
Happy Holidays as applicable to my virtual friends and co-fans.
Yeah, I think Sydney’s contribution was to keep some of them alive, even if a bit worse for the wear.
I did say something in the previous page about Sydney still wanting to be a hero, not a villain, so less likely to melt peoples’ faces off. Sydney is quite effective with her Shield & Lighthook combination, especially since it didn’t look like any of the Mugger-Mob looked like they would weigh 16 tons or greater…Easy peasy.
Notice that the fire is on the same spot as a tarp. There must be a burning body under the it and the fire is so strong the tarp hasn’t smothered it.
I don’t think that’s a tarp… it looks more like the ground and part of the wall was scooped out and crumpled up into the center of the now-flaming bit of organic debris that used to be a person… the bullet pock-marks on the wall to the left of the alley looks more like what one of the muggers guns would do in a panic-induced burst of full-auto rather than Sydney’s PPO would do, since they are MUCH too SMALL and look more like bullet impact damaged bricks and not more flame-blasted melted spots that would occur with the PPO…
PS: i’d love to have the ordnance that could cause that imploded section of deck/wall and not cause massive amounts of collateral damage as evidently is the case here…
Of course Sydney was involved the face planted demon thug was probably “lighthooked” into that position.
He’s also missing an arm, did Sydney do that as well? I hope not.
I think both arms and a bit of horn. The spiky mace was on its left arm
Most definitely disarmed.
RKO via Lighthook!
I note that Cora-cutie subscribes at least partially to my doctrine, and cops suck in any universe or locale…littering !? They will probably add another for not separating the organics from the recyclables.
I interpret the ticket for littering to be basically a slap on the wrist. Cora made enough of a mess that they need to publically tell her off about it and be seen giving her a stern warning and penalty for it, but they don’t actually want to do so, so they give her a meaningless ticket after reading her the riot act.
Kinda like a ‘unsafe vehicle’ for reduced fines if ya pay early. In Coras instance a bit of creds so someone else takes out the trash
yeah, that’s the way i take it too, she get’s yelled at in a loud enough scene that the cops are seen to be upholding their end of their job of protecting the peace and station safety, etc…, yet the whispered (here’s the fine for “littering”) is so that the John Q. Alien bystander is not going to know EXACTLY what the fine was, so it protects the cops from the public opinion for “going soft” on crime as it were…
I read the ticketing as a serious if slightly petty rebuke from an officer who knows she (?) can’t touch Cora, but is super annoyed with how much trouble the station hero gets away with. I’m actually kinda proud of her for being spunky enough to follow through, when she knows she’s being a little ridiculous but still wants to make her point to someone who ultimately has way more social clout and firepower.
“You and I both know this is kinda petty, and you would doubtless get it dropped with a phone call if I cited you for something serious enough to be worth your time disputing. But seriously, you are such a headache and I’m so tired of your ‘incidents’ creating weeks of paperwork for us while you just keep walking away untouched. I just want you to at least once think about who has to clean up the aftermath and maybe produce less of it next time.”
I get the feeling that Cora and the officer have a pre-existing rapport.
And it’s probably an intimate one.
Well, I didn’t… until you suggested it.
+1
actually, Dave, the whole skip made the thing even funnier :D
At the end of last page I was thinking with holidays and all, that is the perfect time for an other meanwhile on earth or what Deus is up to break.
Drawing the 10-12 pages of thugs getting massacred would have made sense if Dave had 10-12 funny things to have happen during the slaughter. Without that many jokes it makes sense to fast forward to the funny. I think Dave made the right call here as it keeps the comics’ pacing going at the right clip.
Yeah, we know these guys are doomed from the start, a *skip to the end* gag was the best fit and most expected. Why spend five weeks showing way over their heads thugs get the crap kicked out of them; unless you want the audience to sympathize with them and make Cora and Sydney look like sadists. Go for the gag was the best option.
Looks like agent-1bdi is on the job
(Just had to mention monsters inc and futurama) … exiting stage left… very quickly
;-p
I guess if there is a body in that burning corner of the alley, they should to make sure that it does not leak too much… Don’t want a toxic spill in the waste water system after all.
At said mine:
Foreman: ‘Those warp whistles don’t mine themselves. Double time! Our distributor expects at least three fully functional ones a day! That means you Will harvest those tornadoes and Like it!’
Warp mining is probably a desk job in a cubicle farm.
White shirt, black tie, headset, remotely working a crane machine
only slightly less crooked than the one at Walmart 1/3 filled with plushies.
So like data mining, or are you thinking stuck operating some dimension needle probe from a desk they are chained/gravity locked/energy handcuffs *because sci-fi*, to pushing buttons over and over and having to right down exotic particle density numbers each time to report, doing this for incredibly tiny areas over and over again.
Either Cora can do illusions too or Sydney is pretending humans have seven breasts.
More likely but less fun is that Cora pulled a small bag out of Hammerspace and Sydney has the Orbs in that bag behind her back.
Five up the back under her shirt like Godzilla spines.
Two up front under her shirt pretending to be modest boobs.
PS:
I’ve always wondered…
Could Sydney fly if the orbs were in a backpack and she commanded
them to rise?
It would free up a hand.
I have pictured her directing all but two of the orbs to form a platform that she could stand on in mid-air, while using the remaining two. I’ll admit that your version has the advantage of not requiring her to balance on a small, rounded surface without the benefit of the flight orb’s anti-vertigo protection. Secure orb pockets on a flying harness might be even better.
last panel had me laughing for 3 mins. happy holidays everyone
Ditto, especially since it reminded me of Alice’s Restaraunt – classic story involving police and others overreacting to something minor. I think I like this officer’s spunk in standing up to Cora, I wanna see more.
Littering and…?
Littering and…?
Also, if Cora is a ranger, does that make dabbler a bard? Using that high charisma score and all.
Sorceres who multiclassed like crazy over the years using D20
The Warp Mines are a cross between mobile medium-security prisons and mining vessels. They warp between chunks of rocks, ice, etc in asteroid belts, kuiper belts, and Oort clouds. Prisoners have no way of getting far away from their assigned prison-ship because their spacesuits and/or mining rigs are very much designed for short-distance travel and short-term (a matter of hours at most) survival. And because these prison ships warp between entire systems, not just parts of a particular system, there’s no way to juryrig a signal that’ll reach anyone who can get close enough to the ship’s location in time to plot a daring snatch-and-grab for an escape…especially if they work for a few hours in one location, reboard the ship for lunch, and find themselves working in the afternoon in an entirely different location lightyears away.
…After all, Dabbler did point out it’s far easier to mine water from chunks of space ice than to try to invade an inhabited planet, which one presumes is armed and ready to defend itself to one degree or another. She made it pretty clear by inference that mining ice from comets and Oort cloud chunks is a regular, common industry in the interstellar community.
(Before you say high tech ice pirates will always win vs low tech primitive natives…I’ll remind you of the Battle for Endor, where the Ewoks had flint-knapped tools and pointy sticks for their tech…which included some rather tactically effective ambushes, traps, and other surprises, based on good advice given in advance for setting up said strategic ambushes, traps, and so forth…and they wiped out a professional army, not just mere ice pirates.)
Ugh, the battle of Endor. Supposedly a professional army with a high degree of ruthlessness and technology that’s supposed to be millennia ahead of ours, and they bumble around like a bunch of idiots. Seriously, the modern US or Russian army would have beaten the crap out of the Ewoks, and they are a lot less ruthless than the Imperials are supposed to be.
It all depends on how much the ice pirates are prepared to sit back and use the advantage of ship-based ordnance. If glassing the place from orbit is an option in order to achieve their options, it is absolutely what they should do, as it has no counter at all from any civilization that doesn’t have anti-spacecraft tech. Even huddling underground isn’t a great defence since the glassing of the surface will seal you in, leaving the ice pirates free to the rest of the planet.
Ordance schmordnance, if all they want is water and ice, they just tractor a few planet killer asteroids and drop them places like the Yellowstone Caldera or that even bigger one in Colorado and others around the Pacific Rim. Then come back next year when the very few remaining “nuclear armed monkeys” are too busy scrabbling in the ice and snow covered ruins for canned food to interfere.
I’d rather they were mining actual warps in space, and whatever exotic material or energy the process created was used to power FTL drives and other supersciencey stuff.
Do not look to science fiction movies for any reasonable examples of battle tactics and strategy. SF in general does not do well with military scenarios with a few exceptions, such as writers like David Weber, John Ringo, David Drake, Pournell and Heinlein. Even so, they are looked down upon by the elitist snobs in the SF hierarchy. Interesting how the military plays such a dominant role in SF yet those who do it right in hard military SF are scorned by the community as a whole.
Look to history for real examples of warfare and what happens when a technologically superior society encounters a more primitive one. In every case the less advanced culture was overcome by the more advanced one. Oh, to be sure the primitives may have won a few battles, but over the long term they were always defeated. Log traps not withstanding, the only way the Ewoks ‘won’ was due to rebel alliance assistance and because George Lukas made it so by rendering Imperial Stormtroopers incredibly incompetent.
I can think of several examples of technologically inferior societies defeating their more technologically advanced opponents. First Anglo-Afghan War, Maori vs the Brits, Mogols vs China/Europe to name a few.
Australians vs emus
Umm, the Maori fucking lost!!! They may have won a few minor battles (usually when they hid like cowards and then ran away), butt they lost in the end (although you would hardly know that now, they have had fucking everything returned, with interest!!)
The Stainless Steel Rat sends the SF battle genre up most excellently.
God Jul/Merry Yule to you too Dave.
“I think the idea that the guy is sent to mine something insubstantial is funnier than it should be. How would one mine “warp”?”
My initial thought to this is that they’d be mining a substance that only naturally exists in that sub space. The real question is, how would one have people doing it in the sense of a penal colony/ship situation in any sense at all?
Same here.
I would think that that would be how you would mine antimatter. you find a warp that goes to a universe that is composed of more antimatter than matter and just Mine antimatter by pulling it through the warp to our universe.
DaveB: “…I thought it would wind up being 10-12 pages of decent but not groundbreaking action.”
Are you certain of that, DaveB? Looks to me like quite a bit of the ground did get broken up there…
oh dear, it they tack on a “creating a nuisance” charge…she could end up on the ‘Group W’ bench with me. I’ve got straight up my clothes and do something with my hair.
Yeah, Cora’s probably stabbed a few fathers in her time. Probably not her own, but Arlo never specified…
I’m not sure if I’m please that someone else thought of this or annoyed that I was too busy to check my webcomics Monday morning when I might have had a chance of posting it first. Ah, well, at least I had a Christmas dinner that couldn’t be beat…
Bones don’t melt. I should know, because Bones told me so…the tv show not an actual set of bones.
Terrain bones don’t melt. Says nothing about the melting properties of extraterrestrial bones. For all we know, that alien could have been from a species with skeletons made of cheddar.
Or iron, instead of calcium. Or Titanium. Heck, you could probably get titanium-boned animals in a Terran-style biosphere with the right luck, considering how prevalent and bio-friendly it is.
Bones do melt
The heat needed to cause mammal bones to soften enough to bend like that is also enough to get them to burn if exposed to oxygen, which would happen if the bones in question are external to the body..
Not if Cora is using some Rachet and Clank level (why does that even exist) kind of weapons.
-see this button shoots a gravity containment with a rotating “chainsaw beam* circular equator that severs, engulfs what it severs then produces a vacuum with intense heat on the contained item.
How many femurs do you know of that are external to the body? And who said anything about using flames to burn? Ever slow cooked a leg? If you leave it in long enough, the bones can get soft enough to bend
Soaking them long enough in acid will make ’em bend, too. There’s an experiment for kids to take chicken drumstick bones that have been cleaned up, and bake one in an oven at low to moderate heat (iirc) for a long while to show how brittle it gets when the organic bits get toasted & dried out…and then to take a second drumstick bone and soak it in a jar of vinegar for two weeks, until the minerals break down, leaving behind the organics, at which point you can tie the bone in a knot.
So that’s where all those rubber chickens come from: they have been pickled in bad wine :P
Maybe Prof Lockhart got to them first, could also be a jab at Olde man Logan.
Did anyone notice the reference to the terminator via the scorched hand?
Thought that was one of them horror-survivor stories, “Left 4 Dead” or something
I can’t stop giggling at “melted femur”
This really has been one hell of a long day for Sydney. I’m surprised she isn’t asleep on her feet at this point. I have a feeling that when they finally get aboard Cora’s ship and Sydney is shown some quiet corner of the bridge to sit, she will drop right off and sleep all the way to Earth. Cora and crew will be quite entertained when Sydney starts talking in her sleep.
Well I was waiting for the aftermath page, expecting Sydney to have them all tied up and the like and make some self plugging comment about how most my characters would either of annihilated muggers…or eaten them…but totally forgot this was Dabbler’s friend with Sydney and Dabbler is still re-working her gear to “non-lethal”.
of course if Sydney brings this up, I suspect Cora’s planet wide scanners by now have gone through the data and had detected the heat plumes of recent combat and show Sydney did slice one being to pieces and blew another’s head off along with thousands of fighters, that Sydney may only just “assume were non-sentient mecha-kaiju and drones…but…were just as likely sapient beings who just didn’t regard her as something to or were capable of conversing with her.
What the ticket is really for is, “Multi-hour long inconveniencing of an officer during her mid-shift meal.”
AND missing the two-for-one special offer at the Space-Donut Shop.
And now, some Arlo Guthrie.
He stopped me right there and said, “kid, I want you to go over and sit down
On that bench that says ‘Group W'”
And I walked over to the bench there, and there’s Group W is where they
Put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committin’
Your special crime
There was all kinds of mean, nasty, ugly-lookin’ people on the bench there
There was mother-rapers father-stabbers father-rapers!
Father-rapers sittin’ right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean
And nasty and ugly and horrible and crime fightin’ guys were sittin’ there
On the bench, and the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one the meanest
Father-raper of them all was comin’ over to me, and he was mean and
Ugly and nasty and horrible and all kinds of things, and he sat down next to
Me. He said, “Kid, what’d you get?”
I said, “I didn’t get nothin’. I had to pay fifty dollars and pick up the garbage.”
He said, “What were you arrested for, kid?” and I said, “litterin'”
And they all moved away from me on the bench there, with the hairy eyeball
And all kinds of mean, nasty things, till I said, “And creatin’ a nuisance”
And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the
Bench talkin’ about crime, mother-stabbin’, father-rapin’, all kinds
Of groovy things that we was talkin’ about on the bench, and everything was fine.
I’m in Category 3. But I’m wearing my Santa hat to REALLY mess with anyone who might break into the property I’m patrolling tonight.
NAUGHTY LIST for you!
I’m assuming that Sydney is the figure immediately right of Cora in the first panel. But where are her orbs? We haven’t seen the poster tube in a while, so it must have been lost or destroyed – which leaves her no place to hide the orbs.
Mining warp is like mining woof, except crosswise to the threads.
AAAAAaahhhhhhhh!!!!! NNNNNnnnnoooooooo!!!
Do we have to wait for a flash back to see all the hitting, biting, kicking, crying, whimpering, melting(?), body parts exploding, … (okay you get the idea.)
DANG!
(Wait) till they meet again?
I am pretty sure coras’s tech rig includes recording events for future review and/or Home movies. I am Magine that on her ship on the way home as Sydney is probably napping in the background the crew is going to be sitting there with tubs of popcorn watching the fight. And taking notes on Sydney’s creative cursing during the fight too I bet. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5q3TG5yCG0
I am gonna guess that Halo is in the back of that white van, sampling alien tranquillisers. no way that wasnt traumatic for her.
She is standing there right next to Cora, just has her orbs tucked away somewhere.
Halo is still “over there”. The shock probably won’t hit her until she’s safe at home.
Double Overtime? What’s that?
If I work O/T on the 25th or 26th, I receive the same rate…time and a half.
That being said, I have no issue working the three stats, since the three days alone pay January’s rent. :)
The Commonwealth of Virginia does not pay time and a half or double time for working on Holidays. Instead, they bestow up to eight hours of Compensatory Time – essentially deferring your holiday – instead. Note that I said “up to eight hours.” If you put in extra hours or pulled a double shift, well, a normal work day is 8 hours so a holiday, for pay purposes, is eight hours.
Some jobs, usually thanks to a good union, will have conditions on where you get automatic overtime for working certain days, regardless of if you are over time or not,
Statutory holiday pay stacks with that, where by you get paid for not working, and if you work you get paid, so you effectively get paid twice for that shift.
If you work a stat holiday on an automatic overtime day, you can *really* rake in the cash. I knew a guy who got 4x his usual wage for working Easter Sunday. He LOVED being able to pick up that shift.
Stat pay is stat pay, and O/T Stat pay is Stat pay…since we’re already earning 1.5.
We had time and a half on time and a half for Stat O/T. The company rep that let that get into the contract was fired.
Damned union let that one get away for garbage two contracts later. Especially since when you consider the company pays-out 1 O/T hour on a stat for every 50(?) or so regular hours!
Heck, we had a Minimum Wage Guarantee active for one contract, fossil for two, and it is no where now…again, for garbage.
But, in any case, Best of the Season to all!
A very merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. May you all be with family and friends on this jolly of days. To any one alone on this or any other Christmas day, I wish you the best.
Sincerely Joshua.H.
The cop really should have been sliding sunglasses down her nose in the last panel.
Sorry I missed the
“‘ello ‘ello ‘ello! What’s all this then?”
Also…. Directed toward Sydney…:
“And you! I don’t want to see you and your toys here again!”
Hope this doesn’t hinder Cora’s efforts to get Sydney home and meanwhile,where the deus is Deus???
Deus is currently hitting on a large chested alien whose breasts are actually a pair of gonads that spray air born cloud semen when mating, and that alien thinks Deus is actually just a large female of his kind whose ovum glands are so overly huge as to flatten out their chest supported by extra wide shoulders and is looking forward to the mouth release of the semen cloud by that pretty mouth Deus has and the possibility of having so many healthy offspring with “her”.
Vale knows this and is watching, its one of her kinks.
Vale is actually recording and watching. The mating habits of this particular alien gets quite a lot from pay per view for certain individuals who are into that kind of kink and a shampoo maker is offering to sponsor it stating it can get pretty much any stain, even this out of any type of hair.
and realistic has mat guy on clean up you have to have that fake cheerfull jokeyness to get throughit “oh look a body part no wait that’s a stick” xd
Who says it is fake? Maybe he (or she) was truly happy to find what they thought was a rib, and sad when it turned out to be just a melted femur (they already had one of those for lunch)