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Pika-la-Cynique β The Frustrations of Corporate Octopus
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Published: 2017-09-09 09:38:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 16363; Favourites: 707; Downloads: 0
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TFW you have a perfectly efficient system of your own to manage your time&tasks which is just as if not more productive than how management thinks you're supposed to do your job, but There Are Rules and This Is How We've Always Done Things....(magazine article illustration, trad ink and digital colour. I think I need an on-point caption to sell as a print.....)
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However, the octopus is unlikely to live long enough to 'vest' his pension, let alone retire.
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(recent breakfast conversation)
Me: Take a look at this funny octopus picture.
Husband: (looks alarmed)
Me: NO NO IT'S NOT SEXUAL.
#lifeinJapan
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Reminds me of Hank from Finding Dory, except in an Office Space-esque scenario.Β
Good work!
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Not that two-fingered gesture, evidently...
(Let's how the typist doesn't turn round and see it from the other side, though!)
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LOL!Β Perfection.
The little lonely cactus high on file cabinet makes me laugh out loud. I don't know why. ...its the little details that get me.
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"The rule is that you have to type *two*-handed! No exceptions!"
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"Maintaining the two-limb status quo is more important than increased productivity, Gerald."
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I second this Β
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I feel like corporate octopus could easily become a mini comic by itself, love it! haha
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
This one hits close to home.... Those corporate assholes.
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Oof just had this experience helping out a friend!! Got the boot just for them to turn around and struggle again!
Love the piece!Β
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XD Β I feel your pain, Corporate Octopus. Β I feel your pain. Β Let's do drinks after work.
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hell yeah, beer for all T____T i feel his pain too
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Later quit his job to go work for Business Cat.
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Accurate, funny and the octopus is adorable, plus his expression, priceless.Β I know I've had the same look on my face several time, every day at work.
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OMG that is so cute.
Somehow he makes me think of Otto!
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Manager Dude: "HR has gotten complaints from your coworkers."
Corporate Octopus: "I keep telling them that the tentacle thing is a repugnant racial stereotype. I have done no such thing!"
Manager Dude: "No, this is about you stealing lunches from the break room fridge."
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reminds me of a typing teacher I had who refused to let me challenge out of the class even though I tested at 70wpm with zero errors . . . because I used the backspace key. Β She insisted I'd type faster if I just ignored the errors, kept going, and fixed them later. Β Ended up just dropping the class after two minutes on the typing tutor that blocked backspace.
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When you know you're right, but the teacher thinks another way... most frustrating situation possible.
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I'd go with 'Because the beaurocracy is always efficient...' or 'Because new ways of thinking never improved anything...' or even 'Make sure you do the thing we've always done even though no one remembers the purpose of doing it.'
Discussing efficiency in a meeting once, we were told the story of a guy that was instructed to fill in 0 in a certain area of a form. No one knew why, they just knew they were supposed to fill the 0 in. So the guy decided to find out why...and discovered that that section of the form was used to record the number of air raids that day, something that hadn't been relevant since World War 2.
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"Yet another unrealistic body expectation" or "Is he kidding?"
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... i have googled and discovered that for the first time today.
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I don't think I'm getting it? What is the octopus doing different from the lady, and what gesture is the man making?
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Humans type with the fingers on the ends of two of our four appendages. Β
The octopus is typing with four appendages, with one left to handle the paper, and another possibly used for balance. Β The output is the same, or even better (a huge stack in his outbox) but the manager is concerned solely with appearances. Β The octopus doesn't look like he's working in the approved way, so mid-level management is displeased. Β Mid-level management is kind of an idiot.
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I love how the octopus looks like an octopus. No beaks in strange placesΒ
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"...unlike Marilyn, here. Β I always see her fingers returning to the Home Row."
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Or "Miss Potts, here, pinches the sheets between TWO fingers. Β Not in a one-fingered suction cup grip..."
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All in all, though, i think the expression on the octopus is more than sufficient, without a caption.
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Agreed. It had me cracking-up. For those of us who have been there, the expression sums it up nicely. π§
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Hehe, Officetopus.
Now when miniskirts will be obligatory...
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