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Subject:Re: It doesn't look good for Tina the Tech Writer From:Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 6 Oct 2016 17:00:20 -0400
Wasn't Tina the one who was described as "brittle", when first introduced?
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Rick Lippincott <rjl6955 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Well, regarding Tina: the character became permanent following an
> outraged discussion here on the list. Maybe if we get into another
> rhubarb, it will save her.
>
> (Although personally I think she won't be gone for long no matter what
> we do. I mean, it's not like cutting a character saves Scott Adams
> money.)
>
> --Rick
>
> On 10/6/16, Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > I was thinking of a Utah Phillips quote that Geoff Hart used to
> paraphrase.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> >
> >> The joke is Tina offered to work harder and do a great job, but the boss
> >> would sack her because she's not a team player ... so you can read
> >> between
> >> the lines the reason why I'm safe...
> >>
> >> -Tony
> >>
> >> On Thursday, 6 October 2016, Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> You're safe as long as they don't consider you a resource?
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Our Slack team pulls the daily Dilbert so I commented about it. The
> >>>> response was, "don't worry you're a team player Tony."
> >>>>
> >>>> LOL. What does that really say?
> >>>>
> >>>> -Tony
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thursday, 6 October 2016, Ron Hearn <rhearn -at- central1 -dot- com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> > Looks like Tina is getting the axe in today's Dilbert:
> >>>> >
> >>>> > http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-10-06
> >>>> >
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
> >
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