June 28, 2015 - Orientation

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31 comments

Jan

While "polymer" is technically the more accurate word, "oxocarbon" is definitely the funnier :P This comic was reviewed and approved by a real chemist.

Also, three cheers for puke orange walls?

OmegaWolf • 06/28/2015

Lol! Don't think me and them can remember all those names.

Jan • 06/28/2015

He also could've said "C[A-Z]+O" and be done with it :P

mithril • 06/28/2015

sounds like the type of company that has a vice-president of paperclips..

Night-X • 06/28/2015

How many C's are working there? I'm trying to be a smartass this one but my spelling is bad.

Mike Bennett • 06/28/2015

This sounds like Disney in the 90s and early 2000s! LOL!

Lord_Chaos • 06/28/2015

Be happy in your work.

KyleTheFrenetic • 06/28/2015

Hip hip, hooray... Bleah! Haha, wow. Corporate DNA ladder, if it had some extra letters.

Wolfyjr • 06/28/2015

Honestly the kangaroo is kinda cute, looks like a cuddler :P ^w^ and though I slightly don't get it to were it's funny to others I'n sure mr. roo there forgot some also you have to wonder if he has photographic memory to remember ALL those names. Think how much of a bitch it must be to JUST get a promotion and the difference between then from minimal to above average pay

soriac • 06/28/2015

@Jan: Yeah, that's one og the reasons regexp's are so damn useful, it can really ease the chaos. Although if they tend to use all these titles in one sentence, I would consider using a lazy plus "C[A-Z]+?O", this yould cover every single entry (and you know how these guys react to being omitted, even in a regex-engine)

Hopeternal64 • 06/28/2015

Now to wait another week for a new post! You've no idea how much I love your comics.

Jo Li KMC • 06/28/2015

And the frightening thing there? I think those are all legitimate position acronyms on several given corporate ladders.

☆Adam☆ • 06/28/2015

I found this site recently and read all the comics in one day. I'm thinking of becoming a Patron to see the daily work-in-progress archive!

Silverwolf • 06/28/2015

@Jan: Better than puke green. They repainted the Georgetown Med School hallways that color. Ick. Oh wait, they do have the puke green walls in the meeting room in panels 3 and 4...

Beware of Wolf and carbon compounds. I know he's not likely to do anything severely malicious and injurious (I mean he hasn't put anyone but himself in the hospital, right?) but trinitrophenol is not something to mess around with.

GalloViking • 06/28/2015

Expect more comics reviewed and approved by a real chemist in the future, bwahaha.

Northern • 06/28/2015

This may be a stupid joke but I’m actually surprised you did not put in C-3PO in the list… honestly that’s all your missing in that list… but anyway first time to comment on your work and must say I love it, been reading your comics for a while and there always funny.

Lycanthromancer • 06/28/2015

Is that really a 'roo? Because his nose is all wrong.

Jan • 06/29/2015

@Northern I actually did consider C-3PO. Along with COO-COO, CDEFGHIO, and Dave ;)

Perfesser_Bear • 06/29/2015

Oxocarbon, oxymoron, what's the difference? Just swapping out vowels for vowels and consonants for consonants. Did you remember to carry the B?

Randolph Woltman • 06/29/2015

Seriously, how many C's are working there? There's something suspicious about a company with that many C's in their corporate titles...

Also who can actually memorize that many acronyms? Only someone with the brains of a kangaroo (I think that's what that animal is...) would memorize those. :P

Y • 06/29/2015

Well, I think Mr. Roo doesn't. In the second panel he is counting them with his fingers trying to remember, getting slower and slower and s l o w e r and........ welcome to the company.

BTW, I'm pretty shure Jan and Jessie will be CMOs soon. Coffee Machine Operators. Y

Golux • 06/29/2015

One of the many reasons I like this comic. We get to nerd out with Jan over using regex to simplify the C-level corporate hierarchy. And thanks for "Oxycarbon", it melds well with another oxymoron, "corporate planning".

Senko • 06/29/2015

I'm trying to catch up on this (very amusing) strip and its prequel but I can't shake the feeling I'm missing comics somewhere. For intance the recap strip http://www.tigerknight.com/99/2014-05-25a starts off with http://www.tigerknight.com/99/99010c.jpg and the only way I could get http://www.tigerknight.com/99/99010a.jpg is to manually copy the image link and change the c to an a then hit go to. Something that wont work if I don't see an obvious skipped set of comics.

Just wondering are you aware of the problem?

Jan • 06/30/2015

@Senko There's no need to manually copy image links! What happened was, I rewrote the recap. So the revised version is at http://www.tigerknight.com/99/2014-05-25a, while the old version is at http://www.tigerknight.com/99/2014-05-25 (there's a note in the comments about that). The strips that appeared before the recap are random oddities that are timeline-independent.

Don't follow the filename numbering. You'll discover missing, reversed, and out-of-order sequences if you do and it'll drive you crazy :]

0netwo3six • 07/01/2015

I just read this entire comic series and would patronize... but my paycheck is next week

WB101 • 07/01/2015

Wow. That’s an awful lot of hot CO2 for a company… is hit by random brick

As for puke green and puke orange, all it needs is that one yellow color and they’ll be in a weird ‘60s/'70s flashback... O_o

mojofur • 07/01/2015

and the next day we find Mr. Roo's position open, and someone with a list of c's to memorize.

Jamtex • 07/02/2015

Are you just making up Chief xxx Officer afte the first panel?

MIke • 07/04/2015

If only someone like Jessie worked where I do. I'd be a much happier worker if I could buy her coffee or lunch (if she'd let me) every day. Ah well, Mad Science marches on...

LLNV & LLPT

Aaron mallett • 08/09/2015

oxocarbons? (Gets Ready to take Chemistry, While planning to get away from society ((Misanthrope and Philosopher))

Warui Kami • 10/05/2015

What about the CAMPFIRESONG?

Annonomus person, of derpiness • 08/07/2017

The guy forgot one, why would they forget C3PO?

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