What's PIP?
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
664 points (97.3% liked)
Comic Strips
12040 readers
2930 users here now
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
Web of links
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
- !memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
In the UK PIP is Personal Independence Payment, which is our disability benefit, which had me really confused, because no fucking way
A. your boss cares enough (or is even able) to get you on it and
B. the Department of Work and Pensions would give anyone PIP for "mere" mental health issues (I have multiple disabilities and am declined every time I have to renew my benefit because their default is simply to decline all applications).
So yeah, "performance improvement plan" makes much more sense lol
performance improvement plan and I am in no way speaking from experience
I reported a hostile work environment at my old job, where my new manager told another employee that he was "going to make his life a living hell until he quits". I was forced to enter EAP - I can't remember what it stands for, but basically seeing a corporate therapist to "deal with my anger issues".
All this started because I had no choice but to report him for violating literal federal law, which the company swept under the rug.
Jokes on him though - he eventually put his hands on me in front of several others and I got a year's salary. I tried to walk away while he was screaming in my face. He put his hands on my shoulders and shoved me onto my chair. I could have sued for more, but I took the agreement and ran and found a new job shortly thereafter.
Why does it feel like every comic by this guy is drawn completely identically, just with different dialogue each time lol
It's called efficiency and you should know about it. We might have to put you on PIP afterall...
It's called an art style. Most artists have that.
I don't mean the style, I mean the exact same layout, expressions, comedic formula, etc
I swear I've seen like 5 of these comics where the drawing is literally identical with only the dialogue changed
Not hating, obviously folks like em, just making am observation
Look up Dinosaur Comics. Been doing the same shtick for years!
Maybe it's the simplicity of the art style. Big round heads, small body's, usually posed standing, everyone is same shape, dialogue focused comedy. I don't know, I'm just spit balling here.
Edit: having a look at the website the comic is publishes you are right. Hell you're even more right today since the last two comics are almost exactly same. Same characters, same positioning, same actions. The only difference is the dialogue and the facial expressions.
I imagine the artist has a bunch of stock art he just cuts and pasted in to the comic so he doesn't have to redraw something he's already drawn.
It's the cyanide and happiness formula - copy and paste anything that doesn't absolutely need to be redrawn.
You have no control over your work or work environment. You do not understand why things are done the way they are. There is no belonging to anything other than a paycheck and sad trombone pizza parties. You are not growing from your work to reach your potential, or aren't being actively developed or grown. Your uniqueness is not recognized, you are a serial number.
The great news is, we've added menial cost mental health EAP to gaslight you as if any human could succeed in the framework above.
There was this one guy who wrote whole books on this kind of stuff. He called this "alienation" and was trying to warn us about it all the way back in like the 1860s.
You talking about Durkheim and "anomie"? If so, yes the concepts since the beginning of industrialization haven't changed, unregulated capitalism has only exacerbated the core issues of humans not having evolved to work the way companies want to operate.
Then they change their mental health therapist access program with Dialogue to give you 30 minute sessions to quickly "fix the issue" that's hindering your performance without addressing the actual mental problem that you are facing.
Work Chronicles
so it's a comic series about work? that's the most unimaginably boring, middle class thing i've ever heard. they fucking post on LINKEDIN, too
It's like Dilbert but without the batshit insane artist