February 8th, 2010
#955 – Monolith
Somehow I’ve managed to get myself into a similar situation at work lately. I’ll get a request to do something that seems silly and so I will ask for clarification. They insist “Yes, please do it exactly as you described.” So I give up and complete the job. I send it out for their approval and “Please do everything completely different.”
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February 8th, 2010 at 12:22 am
Parsing sentences – Such an overlooked skill.
February 8th, 2010 at 12:43 am
Don’t think I could count how many times that has happened to me…
Then again, karma is a rather mischievous mistress. Heh.
February 8th, 2010 at 12:45 am
What do you do, Chris? I thought Biff was your job.
Also biff ordered a Fent. Ordering more would make him own fents.
February 8th, 2010 at 12:59 am
“Oh (scatological reference), you did it just the way I told you to!”
February 8th, 2010 at 2:36 am
I especially like how the title ties in to the comic.
February 8th, 2010 at 2:45 am
yay for people being unable to articulate or parse simple ideas.
and lol fents.
February 8th, 2010 at 5:41 am
I love to do this to people on purpose, Then they get mad and I don’t have to do work for them ever again
February 8th, 2010 at 6:48 am
I think Biff got ripped off. Now, if the work order had said “one-picket fence,” then that would have been a different matter (cf. http://partiallyclips.com/2005/09/22/witness-stand/).
February 8th, 2010 at 8:40 am
Ask for sense and someone gives you a penny.
February 8th, 2010 at 8:50 am
One picket does not a fence make. Biff should sue.
February 8th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Ha ha! Never though about it that way. I’m guessing “Thing you get that are not what you mean but they are what you said” week.
February 8th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
As I working in construction, my first reaction is to shake my head in empathetic dismay. I’ve seen this principle put to practice LITERALLY… Today’s comic will go on the break room bulletin board.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
He could put a sign on it saying “Need more pickets”?
February 8th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Yeah, and he’d probably get a bunch of striking union members to sit on his lawn, too
February 8th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Although, Biff has a case here.
In “One picket fence,” the “one” applies to “fence.”
In “One-picket fence,” the “one” applies to “picket.”
So it’s the contractors, not Biff who have messed up their English.
February 11th, 2010 at 1:08 am
Hasn’t anyone caught on yet. This week is “Literal Week”! YAY FOR DOING WHAT IT MEANS!
February 13th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Mad David: I agree..
The English is messed up.
February 13th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
End road work. Drive through window. Dodge trucks.
What’s that in the road, a head?
February 13th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
(What’s for dinner, mom? What’s in the bag, Dad? What’s this thing called, love? See, it’s all in the delivery…)