Far Out There Christmas Break – page 17
(Historical Notes: Ah, I see Past Me finally came to his senses and quit trying to create furniture that would actually fit in with the photo backgrounds. Good for Past Me. Also, nice to see those guards that used to follow Frank around finally making an appearance again, even if it’s only lurking in the background. They really got the short end of the stick when I had to start fitting all these other characters in whenever Frank appeared. Also, I’d totally forgotten about that little Blue Oyster Cult reference there!)
Frank, your current job is basically to appear and promote your religion. Not only is it basically a job built around you having non-stop vacations and holidays, as a religious job what is normally a religious holiday for everyone else is SUPPOSED to be your busiest time of year. Stop complaining and do your actual job, you lazy bum.
To be fair to Frank (ugh, that’s a phrase I never want to say again) we don’t know how many OTHER major cultural holidays these guys ALSO piggyback on for publicity purposes. For all we know, he could be grumpy because this is what they do every single week.
…or he could just be a lazy bum.
With thousands of different planets, each with different “year” lengths, just the one holiday of “Christmas” could be something they have to do every single week. Just look at the cast of FOT, they’ve celebrated it a dozen separate times already without getting even a single year older. 😉
Which, of course, doesn’t change the fact that Frank is a lazy bum.
Well, no, his ACTUAL “job” is to be the backup of the backup of the person who has the best ability to realign the universal crystal vibrational whatsits or whatever in the event of impending apocalypse. This stuff is just extra crud that his employer forces on him because once they’ve got you, they’ve got you, so they WILL exploit the heck out of you for whatever menial unpleasant chores they want, that they’re too cheap to pay anyone else for, for no additional compensation, regardless of the fact that it has nothing whatsoever to do with the job description you were given when you were hired. So, basically, just like the company I work for (as if you couldn’t tell that already from the ranting).
So, yes, this will be the one time ever that I sympathize with Frank.