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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | Many look up to {{w|Google}} as the ultimate workplace in the IT | + | {{incomplete|Make explanation less opinionated}} |
+ | Many look up to {{w|Google}} as the ultimate workplace in the IT business. They have lots of applicants, but few get in. | ||
− | In | + | In this comic [[Cueball]]'s friend is exhibiting the attitude known as "sour grapes", which is picked up by the other speaker, even though it's disguised as mistrust of major corporations. (Google, for its level of control over the flow of the world's information, is mistrusted by some people). |
− | In the last panel | + | In the last panel it turns out that the friend has been trying very hard to get the job, even resorting to bribing the interview panel by baking them a cake. But he went too far – he tried to distinguish himself from the pack by making the cake relevant to Google's business, but it backfired spectacularly because in doing so he betrayed his complete lack of knowledge about the internet, thus destroying any slim chance he may have had of getting the job. |
− | + | It could also be possible that Cueball's friend made a cake with the shape of the Internet Explorer icon [http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/27/3563892/internet-explorer-and-firefox-teams-celebrate-new-versions-with-cakes on cakes]. This wouldn't land well with the interview panel, since Internet Explorer was created by {{w|Microsoft}}, a competitor in the software and search engine businesses. | |
− | The title text | + | The title text is just a joke, saying that if you work for Google for 256 (2<sup>8</sup>) days you get to learn how to levitate. This displays some of the mystique with which Google is commonly viewed. |
+ | Astro Tell, the director of {{w|Google X}} labs, a Google division that researches "moonshot" projects, has mentioned in an interview [http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-22/inside-googles-secret-lab#p4] that they contemplated starting a levitation project. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | : | + | :Cueball: Have you read about Google HQ? It sounds like an incredible place to work. |
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:Friend: Man, I ain't going to be chained down in no corporate idea factory! They think just 'cause they've got a nice building and laid back culture, I'm gonna want to come in all day long and work on fascinating problems with the smartest people in the world. | :Friend: Man, I ain't going to be chained down in no corporate idea factory! They think just 'cause they've got a nice building and laid back culture, I'm gonna want to come in all day long and work on fascinating problems with the smartest people in the world. | ||
− | :[ | + | :[Cueball stares at friend.] |
− | : | + | :Cueball: So, what, they turned you down? |
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− | + | :Friend: I don't understand it! I even baked them a cake shaped like the internet! | |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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