Freefall

No, the job chooses you.

It's probably best to keep him away from other people, anyway. Especially the customers.

How many times, and how hard, do they have to beat the point into his thick skull, before he begins to realize that he's not the most important person in the world, and never was? He seems like a very slow learner...

There's a reason why he reminds me frighteningly of the current occupier of the White House.

Yeah, his brain simply isn't wired that way.

Speaking as someone who has worked at a job where cleaning up, ahem, "post-processed food" was part of the job duties, a very small part of me pities Kornada.

That said, just as I didn't want pity for that part of said job (back in high school, I was part of the caretaking staff at a pet store... which I loved, because I like animals), I'm holding back any serious expression of sympathy for Kornada here. Someone else had to clean up after his mess; it's only fair that he cleans up after someone else's.

Sympathy? For Kornada? Somebody tell me where that restaurant is so I can, er, add my contribution to the "waste".

It can always get worse◊.

Whatever they try throwing at Kornada, he refuses to do it, in which turn they give him something worse. How much can this escalate, and how will it ever end?

Making paperclips by hand.

I mean, what if he refuses everything? What happens if they can think of no worse work to do?

I dunno, he could end up in a tannery, they use all those really stinky and potentially hazardous chemicals for tanning and dyeing leather.

And let's not start to dwell on such anachronisms that in this world, such jobs should be only done by robots. Even the toilet-cleaning.

Oh, god, I could see it, the absolute lowest rung on the ladder possible.

He'd have to be responsible for properly cleaning robots parts to be recycled... and he'd have to work under Edge.

EDIT: And to add, while I don't think "pet store maintenance staff" is a position on Jean, I'd like to point out that I was responsible for cleaning up feces for at least 30 different species of vertebrate (okay, so the majority of them were fish... that said, I also had to clean up after a monkey), not to mention medicating them (cats, interestingly, were the hardest to deal with). Go ahead, Kornada, just float along on the delusion that cleaning up after one species of vertebrate (okay, maybe two, if Florence gets a hankering for a cricket burger) will be the worst anyone could deal with.

edited 11th Oct '17 7:30:45 AM by 32_Footsteps

The other judge is a sick, homicidal psychopath.◊

Really? Put someone that completely clueless to work with ClF3, which sets asbestos on fire?! That judge must not like the people working at that plant or something.)

Also, in a post on the CTC forums Mark said there will only be a few more strips in this particular subthread (so to speak) before moving on.

edited 12th Oct '17 11:44:30 PM by Nohbody

Wasn't the other judge the one who wanted him burned at the stake or something?

Ah, that substance, for when you want to burn almost anything.

Oh, it's that stuff

As you noted above, I'm less concerned with Kornada's safety here than with the safety of everyone else at the plant once he starts working there.

edited 13th Oct '17 5:30:50 AM by Fighteer

On the basis of "that plant didn't turn into a flaming crater just yet" I presume they have some safety standards, which means Kornada is going to be going nowhere near the actual production.

He'd probably be cleaning the toilets there as well.
The judge is just trying to put him into the danger area in case something does happen there.

Me reading the comic: Huh... I might not remember much chemistry, but that sounds extremely volatile, seeing as it's made out of four halogens bonded together. Does that stuff actually exist, and just how bad is it?

(Does a GIS, sees a glass set on fire)

Holy crap, that guy wants Kornada to literally die in a fire.

It actually exists, and is so bad that even the nazis found it too dangerous to use as a weapon.

Yeah, I know it exists because of the Google search. I know individual results may vary, but that picture of a glass on fire is literally the first result I got when looking through pictures.

Also, bringing up the Nazis in this context is pretty pointless. That's kind of a Hitler Ate Sugar note there.

More like Even Hitler Wouldn't Eat This Sugar.

Which makes about the same amount of sense, but y'know.

They've finally managed to make Kornada change his facial expression.◊ His usual, casually arrogant sneer is gone, replaced by a Deer in the Headlights look.

I like it.

"You will be very clean." "And on fire."