#685 Not My Problem
on 11/06/2017
at 3:05 pm
Sorry my updates have been bleeding into the next day. I used to stay up late to finish my pages, but decided that it may be better to just sleep at a regular time and finish the next day. I’m going to try to manage my time better.
Careful, Chief – she shoots people she’s at odds with.
(and Hawk… don’t kill yourself! Sleep is important!)
Typo:
“Then is suggest…”
Thank you, McBlaggart. I’ve fixed it.
The impression of the Chief in the last panel makes me think he genuinely thought that accepting Atharion’s bribes was the best for the city.
Until now, that is…
@Hawk: Sleep is important. Take your time.
To quote Michal Chriton from Farscape: “4 Years into the Journey and you are finally getting that!”
I just thought that was far too obvious and was like “nah, couldn’t be.”
Alternatively, the Chief may have been crooked enough to take Atharion’s money as long as he wasn’t asked to do anything “too bad” from his viewpoint, and is only now becoming aware of just how corrupt that company is.
To make a bad analogy: A lot of people who cheat on their taxes would not ever consider robbing a bank.
On that subject, I just overheard someone a couple seats from me talk about how he was buying a hat and gloves, and put them on the counter with the other things he was buying. The cashier thought they were already his so she didn’t ring them up. He walked out with them and bragged to his friend about how he got them for free because the cashier screwed up.
I was just thinking, how is this result any different than if he shoved them in his pocket and never told anyone? The only thing that was different was the excused he gave himself. He saw what was going on and didn’t say anything. Just because he originally had the intent to pay for them doesn’t change anything.
Poor Chief, compromising your morals doesn’t get you any advantages.
That’s an interesting story, Marscaleb.
Something similar happened to me once. I was at the local supermarket, bought my stuff and paid for it, but I got way too much back in spare change. Like ten euro or something. I told her that the spare change was too much, but the woman at the counter was still with her mind elsewhere, not even registering what actually had happened or even what I had said, and continued with the next customer.
Haha @Aasgier, I’ve been in that situation. Although usually the cashier is happy to be told (since they do need to balance the till at the end of the day), on more than one occasion they’ve argued with me – as if I would want to go out of my way to give them extra money!