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Self-Evaluation (Patreon)

Published:
2023-03-08 02:01:20
Imported:
2026-06

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she's not wrong

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Zig Justice

Recognizing one's strengths and owning them. "I'm bad at EVERYTHING!"

Jon

Aw

Viktor

Yeah, Morray should not have been in that position for as long as she has.

Miyaa

Oh no. I sense a shipping arise between goblin girl (lizard girl? I have a cousin named Elizabeth, but the whole family calls her lizard or the dancing lizard since she’s a professional ballet dancer and instructor now) and Morey.

Ed Marshall

Plz director do not reabsorb Moray I am begging you

voyager-ngc5195

It's not *that* bad, it's not like she works for *Twitter*...

Andrea Andrew

Please. I want her to live. I like her.

K C

We have to keep Moray! Do not let her get sucked back into the director!

L

And then on to #42069

Fart Captor

On the one hand I love Moray, but on the other, if she resigns it would then be possible for her to ethically make out with Gremlizabeth… 🤔

Miyaa

#5000 will be Steve eating cereal. It’s the limited edition IHOP mini pancake cereal. “Doesn’t taste like syrup, eh.” says Pizza Girl. Fade to black.

Bill Silvia

Is Moray going to be assistant manager at Coffee of Chill?

MikeT

Moray quitting and then another Moray is generated....the infinite employee?

David Durant

If it was morally acceptable for the Director to reabsorb the other Moray then it's also okay for him to do the same to this one. If we all agree they haven't the right to order that for this one then they should be held accountable for all the other ones they've done that to.

Yelling Bird

I've had several jobs I was all-around bad at. The trick is, while being bad, to still manage to be the best available option. That was a lot easier to pull off when I lived in West Virginia...

Michael Boettger

I'm thinking that Moray might be the director's sole interface with the world. And she simply in a near constant state of overwhelmed. The director needs more Morays that can interface with the director and other Moray models.

Kyle

Everyone's like, "wah, wah, don't reabsorb Moray, mean director squid," because they want to keep Moray around. Honestly, we ought to be exhorting the director to keep themself uncontaminated! Moray is clearly defective; send her to Massachusetts where she belongs.

Buck Caldwell

God damnit no, let her be a child at least in some tiny portion of her life for a while.

Elberik

She has a positive attitude & likes to make new friends. Unfortunately she's terrible at actual HR & team management.

Miyaa

I think she’s at least 20 so go for it?

David Durant

Is Moray going to be use as the scapegoat for all of Cubetown's issues? What was her job title again? At this point it feels like the Director is an unelected dictator with total power over Cubetown and no responsibility whatsoever. If Moray leaves her job we just have Claire in the same position for the next big thing that goes wrong.

Johanna

Moray: Professional Scapegoat

Andje Lewkowicz-Lalonde

And who's fault is that right? Her actual creator is also her employer, and she's literaly Mrs. Meeseeks

JD

I think that the real problem is that Moray was one person (AI) doing the job that should require an entire team to effectively accomplish. Keeping track of everyone's mental health is simply not a one person job.

Czarzhan

Well, if she *bad* at all aspects of her job, maybe the Director won't want to reabsorb her. At least, not just yet. Maybe she can go explore areas beyond Cubetown. Like Northampton. :)

Richard

Eating cereal ON HIS BOAT

schmod

Wait. CAN Moray quit? The implications from what we know about Moray are.... unsettling.

Andrew

Is it possible to fail at being a scapegoat?

Scott Hilton

Omg. There really is an angst solstice happening right now.

Derek Lewis

When you look like a blob, and you’re bad at your job that’s a Moray

LH

omg that would be a disaster. i definitely want to see this

Photon

Yeah. Aaaand... who's responsible for that?

Techdragon

I don't think Moray will be permanently reabsorbed into The Director. My thoughts are: 'The Director deliberately let Moray live independently for an extended period so it could observe her interactions with others without effectively micromanaging her actions, in the name of science'. I'll even go so far as to suppose she was instantiated with personality traits that push her towards being more outgoing in order to encourage those interactions. Either that, or Yay made a bet with the Director at some point regarding human/AI interaction and Moray is the 'coin flip'.

Diptych

Moray's Director of Sentient Resources. That does mean she's ultimately responsible for issues with employees' conditions.

Photon

Sure is, by being clearly successful.

Alan Wiggs

When a girl made of slime/screws up time after time/that's a Moray

Mad Marie

Doesn’t taste like syrup, eh.

Pete

If she's bouncy and fun/but the job don't get done/that's a Moray

BobC

Well, Moray does throw a mean curve, and has that enveloping hug.

Sean Kinlin

Moray will take full responsibility, and apologize to Lord Vad- uh, The Director.

That Blair Guy

On the one hand, I do agree with @Diptych. On the other hand, this sort of dysfunction is a top-down thing. I would hope that some measure of the director's ire is self-directed (and not just from the perspective that Moray is part of the director).

Diptych

Liz is 19, per this morning's Q&A.

Diptych

Liz being under-supported is Moray's responsibility, but Moray being under-supported is the Director's responsibility, so if one caused the other, yeah, the Director has to clean up their act.

That Blair Guy

There are definitely pieces of this I find appealing. One would hope that some portion of the director's displeasure is directed inwards at determining how to prevent recurrences of this. And perhaps some evaluation of Cubetown's other inhabitants with an eye towards, "Are these people being treated properly?" (e.g. I'm remembering that janitor in the background during Claire's phone interview.)

Tom wilson

She would be re-absorbed back into the collective consciousness of the giant jellysquid... I'm sure it's not like dying, more like having your mind expanded. I suspect that part of the reason the jellysquid can't really communicate well with Humans is because there are a thousand minds in there, all competing for CPU space.

Roombot

Moray will work at Marten's shop, Coffee of Chill

Carl Fink

The other Moray voluntarily returned to the Director. I don't recall any evidence of its forcing anyone.

Sammitch

Moray has been sentenced to POOLG for Job Crimes.

Bagge

I 100% buy into this headcanon

Finvaara

I've just met Moray, but if anything happens to them I shall reformat everyone in the room and then myself.

Joseph Bonnar

Oh oh. @Photon, are you pointing your finger at: The Director???

Joseph Bonnar

I -like- the way you think, Kyle.

Joseph Bonnar

I'll go with the bet, Techdragon. It's the sort of thing Yay would have done before he blundered into Aurelia's "mom vibes."

Absentia

I can almost GUARENTEE that Moray will start working at Marten's coffee shop.

Todd Ellner

A lot of folks are saying "Let Moray live!" Well, yeah. But it's different for creatures like her. When she is reabsorbed there will be memory, improvement, evolution, and continuity, just not an identical ego. The next Moray will be Moray with the benefit of experience.

Todd Ellner

Usually "The Drop That Became the Sea" refers to a line from the poetry of Turkish mystic Yunnus Emre. In this case it's more ..... literal

Todd Ellner

Reabsorb. Integrate the experience. Learn. The next Moray will remember being this Moray but will do a better job. Identity is different

Finvaara

Except we know Moray doesn't wish to be reabsorbed, she's just preparing to accept that as an expected punishment. It's a gain for the director, but it's still the end of her individuality.

Doug DeJulio

This would be a completely perfect outcome.

David

If she's squishy and green / with a heart that's not mean..../ that's a ... Moray!

Todd Ellner

Identity and individuality the way you mean them are very biology-specific. Why do you impose non-colonial organism categories and expectations on the Director and their parts? Extensions? Members?

Bagge

If you do take a leak When excitement's at peak that's a Moray

Bagge

I'm very sad to say that this is a strike against the principle of running a workplace exclusively through slimegirls

Sparky

Hmm. Methinks - the Director will spit out a young adult Moray to learn from the Goblin. This has to be HR Moray’s next step in growth.

Vinay Shenoy

Well, she also will… bounce back from anything life throws at her

Fart Captor

Hmm… 19 is still very baby. Tho who knows how long ago this one blooped out of the Director. She could be like 2. And who knows what her equivalent human age would be…

Fart Captor

I doubt she'd HAVE to be re-absorbed. The other one made it seem like that was voluntary

Shane Wegner

Good workplaces definitely support the mental health of their employees and notice when they’re not ok. Even though she is smol, Liz is an adult and I’m placing some(much) of the responsibility for maintaining her own mental health on her. Employers aren’t entirely second parents. But noticing and suggesting help could have happened earlier.

legobil

Well, according to Moray-44, it seems to be a semi-voluntary choice. They could be programmed to want to be reabsorbed, but if they want to stay, they can.

legobil

I wonder if the Director would want to reabsorb Moray to learn from her experiences before glooping out a more qualified one. And if so, could old Moray be re-glooped again? :)

Ktulu

But.. She's not an adult. She is a genius kid. I don't know if I missed something but in my mind she's like 14-16?

Eli

"Coffee of Chill", that is good....

YsabetJustYsabet

If she feels heaps of shame / and accepts all the blame, / that's a Moray...

Shane Wegner

Hmm, if true that changes my view entirely! But I read it as, got into her PhD program at 16, presumably took a few years to finish that, and has been working at Cubetown a year, placing her in her early 20s. Still incredible for PhD havers but not a minor. If she finished her PhD at 14 and has been working at Fubetoen a year, could be 15 now I suppose. In that case responsibility falls back on her parents, with employer having some tangential. Unless she did the whole emancipated minor thing.

Shane Wegner

When you’re made out of slime / your whole life’s borrowed time! That’s a Moray!

mammalsounds

Is this the part where the Director has figured out that the Peter Principle apparently applies to AI as well? They have risen beyond their capability to administrate the system they now find themselves in charge of -- and, not having any kind of emotional BS to process in light of that knowledge, are now seeking to *correct* those oversights.

mammalsounds

Namely, by hiring Claire, fully recognizing the nested power of Aurelia's MASTER-LEVEL MOM VIBES, and their potential for good within the TOWN OF CUBES!

mammalsounds

she will be Raven Reborn (as a squishy AI)...so basically no changes needed other than the art.

mammalsounds

There's a being in one of Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Final Architecture" novels, who's a machine intelligence that has been separated from their hive for a long, long time. And basically they've decided they never want to go back, but they still correspond with the hive-mind. They just don't want to merge back into to it -- they have too many other things that demand their attention.

Pete

When you sploop out some gloop And your mind you depute That's a Moray

Pete

But when they dysfunction? Ethical conundrum! That's a Moray

William Borden

At least an Orca hasn't eaten her...yet.

Stephen Wells

Moray is going to become a truly terrible barista at Marten's new coffee shop.

Stephen Wells

The Director doesn't WANT to get THIS Moray in its thought processes.

Stephen Wells

I think they can run in parallel. The discussion earlier strongly implied that this Moray has overlapped with multiple other, much more short-lived Morays who met various terrible fates (smooshed by heavy crate, eaten by orca, recruited by Twitter).

Stephen Wells

The Director specifically told Moray to offer Claire a job so that Claire can fight back against the tides of chaos. The Director knows that they, too, are very bad at their job.

Am Queue

Sounds like an Edward Gorey abcedary

SpookyPenguin

Nobel Peace Prize incoming for Goblin Girl <3

Robert L

So she spent some years getting her double-PHDs, and then 17-19 in a death spiral - I'd say she deserves to catch up on some childhood, although that is not necessarily incompatible with being in a relationship.

enchantedsleeper

I thiiink Jeph said she was 19 in yesterday's Q&A. Unless "Dr Lizard" referred to someone else.

Robert L

Being allowed to be bad at your job sounds like almost heaven.

enchantedsleeper

Moray 🤝 Beeps "I am peppy and adorable but clearly unsuited for this role"

enchantedsleeper

This ☝️ Also, I don't think she has... any qualifications at all...

Pete

I guess if she's *forced* to be reabsorbed into the parent mind that would be murder.

Pete

She said she's not a kid, she's just small.

David Paul

The Director (or possibly the creator of the Director) pretty much set their purpose to be "learn about everything". The problem with that is, when set to learn about everything from quarks to quasars, one tends to forget about the human element (we might not be as interesting (from a certain point of view), but we tend to be involved in a lot of things on this planet (and in space (massive shoutout to the team on the ECTech space station (and Station)))).

David Durant

This is a really good point. Are we ever going to find out who created the Director and who funds Cubetown? Ultimately they're responsible if the Director is just their emoloyee.

David Durant

We just don't know at this point. I wonder if Jeph does....

David Durant

Thing is - that's also a very accurate description of Claire going into her new job...

enchantedsleeper

Would you say "clearly unsuited"? I wouldn't. Underqualified is different to unsuited...

Yelling Bird

When everyone sucks more than you, even basic competency seems like skill.

Unkn0wabl3

Nooo! please don’t go Moray!

Greg Morrow

QC 5000: Steve eats cereal

Ktulu

@Shane Wegner Yeah, I might have made a mistake, but even if she's in her early 20's now she made her education as a kid. She had a ton of expectations thrown at her, and it's absolutely "normal" that she as a kid made coping mechanisms to help her rise to those expactations. It made her very mentally unhealthy, and she needs therapy, but really.. She won't unless its almost forced on her by a figure of authority. Otherwise she would feel she's even more of a failiure. This is a closed circle. And this is what too high expectations do to people who were "gifted" as a kid.

Light

In the flashback to her joining Cubetown 2 years ago she stated that she was an adult. So she's almost certainly 20 or older.

MisterVimes

Yikes. PhD at 19 means she did her coursework AND dissertation in 3 years, in a hard science field? That's honestly mind-boggling at an "almost as bad as Bruce Banner" level. Unless maybe she had a deal with the admin, brokered by parents, at the R1 school she was at to do the PhD coursework while in undergrad, and access to the research labs early... that *might* be possible. Unlikely, but possible. PhDs are grueling even for "normal" levels of overachiever-perfectionism. For a teenager... yeah that's just terrifying.

MisterVimes

It's accurate for Claire's on-paper skillset. But Moray/Beeps are also completely wrong personality types to manage organizations - they don't have the organizational skills and are chronically allergic to confrontation or systematic thinking about process issues. Claire has the right temperament in spades, and she will learn to moderate her "temper" a little as she matures in the role.

Carl Cravens

"I'm not a kid" is exactly what a kid would say. I consider her an unreliable narrator of her own story.

Mad Marie

I see you, Robert L.

Dennis Turgeon

Damn. I’ve been reading this comic for literal years now. Back before Dora and Thai even got together, back before bubbles or may were characters. So much has happened in that time. Here’s to 5000 more if that’s what you want Jeff!

Mad Marie

“M” is for Moray, crushed by a bale. “M” is for Moray, swallowed by whale. “M” is for Moray, D’rector-consumed. “M” is for Moray, one-o’clock boomed. “M” is for Moray…

Mad Marie

Perhaps Moray will find a new job as Steve’s cereal milk.

Summer Sudbrink

Isn’t Moray younger than Liz? With substantially less life experience? I mean she jiggles like an adult but isn’t she just a kid too?

Daryl Sawyer

I want to see a fanart of a deranged Steve sitting below an industrial cereal dispenser at a factory, mouth open.

Miyaa

That’s what I think #5000 will be. But, with Pizza Girl as his special breakfast guest!

Kiva Catalina

Liz's face in Panel 5 - priceless.

Miyaa

@Buck Caldwell • Okay, so shipping might be crossing the line. How about the start of a beautiful friendship trope?

Sarah Valentine
>>103587809

I mean, she's an extension of The Director, and also an AI, so the answer is "it's complicated"

Sten Thaning

And a position opens for a chill guy you can come to with your problems?

Jim Feldman

On one hand, I think Moray is autonomous but on the other (they/she) was spun off a supremely intelligent AI. If they have failings, wouldn't that point back at the director?

Daryl Sawyer

Just means the director needs to reabsorb her, integrate her experiences, and issue a new, better Moray.

Daryl Sawyer

OOh ooh! Instead of that, Steve, Tortura, and Pizza Girl involved in some sort of spy/superhero shenanigans.

Fart Captor

The important thing is that ladies kissing other ladies

alexandre belinge

I'll bet she'll pull an amazing espresso in Coffee of Doom 2.0 !

MisterVimes

Great. Now I have the image of Moray using her gelatin-body as an espresso machine, with all the rule 34 fanart that includes. Some days, my brain...

Shane Wegner

Definite agree on the tricky parts of being a gifted kid, it can set up all sorts of tricky traps about expectations, adults wondering if they just know everything, and learning a work/study ethic when at first it's easy to just memorize everything in one go.

Sehrys

If she's made out of gloop / And she needs to regroup / That's a Moray! Reabsorption or no / She'll mature and she'll grow / That's a Moray! If she joined the main cast / Surely it'd be a blast / That's a Moray! So, Jeph, don't hesitate / Please, come on, seal our fate! / Give us Moray! ✨

Carol Metzger

It would be a great way for her to learn about all kinds of humans.

Roombot

I wish I could erase my memory of QC so I could go back and binge it all for the first time again.

Leak

Moray is the ultimate coffee filter...

Leak

Fission mailed successfully

Pejo

Excuse me she's Pizza Queen now

Pejo

Good ol' Fart Captor, keeping her eyes on the prize

Pejo

Learning important facets of Yelling Bird's backstory

Nash Wolfe

There's an amazing scene in Red Dwarf where Holly the supercomputer is bored because they've read every book in existence, so they ask Lister to help: LISTER: I've done it. HOLLY: Done what? LISTER: Erased Agatha Christie. HOLLY: Who's she, then? LISTER: Holly, you just asked me to erase all Agatha Christie novels from your memory. HOLLY: Why should I do that? I've never heard of her. LISTER: You've never heard of her because I've just erased her from your smegging memory. HOLLY: What'd you do that for? LISTER: You asked me to! HOLLY: When? LISTER: Just now! HOLLY: I don't remember this.

Clifton Royston

Like Evelyn Quan - "That's why you're the only one who can save the universe - you're bad at everything you try, and that's your superpower."

Tim Keating

I would change that last line to "Give us more-ay," but really... *chef's kiss"

Tim Keating

I think you'll find if you start far enough back, you have effectively already done so! Like... remember when the army came after Pintsize?

BrokenThyme

Giving him a laser cannon was not the wisest choice.

Beth Goode

If you're like me you can just start over at the beginning, because you really don't remember it as well as you think you do.

Roombot

That's a good idea, but already did it so many times it is indelibly memorized 🤣