SOMEONE renamed those servers, but who? It’s like when there are two people in a room and one of them farts. The one who didn’t do it KNOWS they didn’t do it, and the one who did maintains their innocence just as firmly to save embarrassment. Is Tix losing her mind? Did she rename the servers and forget, or maybe she did it by mistake and didn’t know, or is she lying to cover her ass? And why would she rename servers in a completely un-intuitive way to begin with? What about Tim? Is he truly evil, trying to set Tix up to fail? Or did he have some other reason for doing it, or maybe it was just a ham-handed mistake that he is now trying to cover his embarrassment. I know I said I’d tell you the answer in the next strip but I lied. So maybe our hero Tix is lying too. The server logs’ evidence certainly seems to point to her as the guilty party. But logs can be cooked. Did Tim cook the logs as well as rename the servers? The next comic will have the answer. Really.
Hmm…the plot thickens indeed. Tim's mention about "the boxes" is pretty intriguing.
And…a seasoned veteran?
So Tix is being purposely sabotaged?
Boxes is IT slang for computers/servers/workstation/routers, basically any vaguely parallelapiped apparatus used in computing. It would seem that either Tix is evil or being sabotaged.
I have experienced corporate sabotage, believe me. That's where a co-worker or supervisor has some agenda of their own, or just doesn't like you, and wants to make you look bad so the company will get rid of you. But those guys never put any of their own skin in that game, i.e. it's not their money. Farty Poop is a very small company, owned by Tim. Tim signs Tix's paychecks, so it would make no sense for him to sabotage her, especially on her 3rd day of work. If he didn't believe it would be cost-effective to pay Tix to do the work she is doing, he just wouldn't have hired her, don't you think? That's why Tix is so baffled. And Tim knows that Tix would have no reason to rename the servers, so he is just as baffled.
Maybe Womablina Vombatu snuck in at night and renamed the boxes from Tix's workstation?
All of this is a mystery to my miseducated self, but I am slowly but surely learning that Tix has been set up.
Who could have done it??? I am getting more intrigued.