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2015-01-19, 12:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Will Dora
a) Send her home
b) Threaten to fire her
c) Fire her (even if just temporarly, to get through to Faye)
d) Punch her
e) Call Marten for help, who'll of course drop everything (including his date with Claire) to help Faye
f) All of the above
g) Let it slide this time
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2015-01-19, 08:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
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2015-01-19, 08:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Bottom of a well
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2015-01-19, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2008
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Well, I suppose this development makes it less likely that we'll get a parallel set of comics watching things get progressively worse for Faye while they get sweeter and more romantical between Marten and Claire until things come to a head and Faye bursts into the room in a right state and ruins the culmination of a perfect evening for the two of them.
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2015-01-19, 07:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-01-19, 07:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2010
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- right behind you
Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Im sure she will handle this properly
One, more, or all of these options are on the table!Spoilerand not get even more sloshed and eventually angry drunk at home. Now the question is, will she keep bumping into people and making her day worse? Drunk makeout attempt with sven rejected, drunk obnoxiousness with marten and claire, he tells her to back off because she is going way too far, possible sloppy drunk call to angus only to disgust him. etc etc etc"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2015-01-19, 07:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2008
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
The next morning Faye wakes up in bed with Tai, somehow already in New York (it was New York, right?) in an attempt to leave everything and follow Angus. Pintsize is there because of course. The storyline nows follows these characters because Marten is boring.
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2015-01-19, 08:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2007
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Will it stick?
I'm not sure. I don't think Dora really wants it to stick right now, but she's sick of Faye's BS. Throwing out an ultimatum like that fits with her character, but she'd probably hire Faye back later.
That said, I am confident in Faye's ability to screw up her life royally in the next twenty four hours.
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2015-01-19, 09:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
One, more, or all of these options are on the table!
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2015-01-19, 09:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Meanwhile, Dora's gf is having a rave at her workplace. I wonder if Dora will be equally stern about that?
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2015-01-19, 09:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-01-19, 09:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2007
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- In the mind.
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2015-01-19, 09:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2008
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2015-01-19, 10:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2008
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Dora's hardly been a strict boss over the years. And it's not like she disapproves of drinking in general, or drug use for that matter, she's gotten high with Tai on screen before. She's partied with the others enough to make that clear. On her off hours, when at home, relaxing with friends. She's not compulsive about it, she's responsible.
But Faye seems to be trying to drink herself to death, and needs a wakeup call here. Drunk as a skunk at work, trying to hide it, she's spent at least a day and a half trying to never have a sober moment, and certainly Dora shouldn't enable that by looking the other way. I bet if she sobers up, joins AA or the like, and comes back, Dora will take her back. I'm not sure about that, but I think it's the case.
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2015-01-19, 11:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
It is a massive breach of Dora's trust. Hell, Faye is assistant manager, for Chtuluh's sake. She should be the one Dora has to depend upon.
Tai can do whatever she wants with her employee, she seems to be pretty laid back about all. But Dora is a stressball ready to explode at any moment; she had trust issue, and now the very one person she should have been able to trust basically lied to her face and acted irresponsibly.
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2015-01-20, 04:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Well well . . . It's about damn time.
You can't say that Faye hasn't had this coming.
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2015-01-20, 08:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2010
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2015-01-20, 09:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2013
Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Well well . . . It's about damn time.
You can't say that Faye hasn't had this coming.
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2015-01-20, 10:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
The difference between Tai's job and Dora's is that Tai doesn't have to make money.* The library may be a minor source of income for the school via late fees/coffee/whatever, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to tuition, university fees, grants, or donations - ultimately, the university keeps the library open, not the other way around. Tai is doing her job adequately as long as the atmosphere is not hostile to the students and the books and facilities are not getting lost, disorganized, or damaged.
Dora, however, is a small business owner who needs her employees - and especially her assistant manager, as someone pointed out - to be decent earners displaying good customer service and whatever 'professionalism' means to the business in question. It's worth noting that virtually every boss on the planet either will fire you for showing up to work drunk, or is entitled to. Hell, it wouldn't have been wholly out of line for her to fire Faye the previous day for showing up hung over, though Dora didn't on friendship grounds and settled for a minor reprimand - one that Faye didn't heed. It sucks to do something like that to a friend, but Dora is not obligated to enable Faye's bender.
*Assuming this library works like the one at the college I attended.Last edited by Jade_Tarem; 2015-01-20 at 12:36 PM.
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2015-01-20, 11:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Showing up hung over was this same day, I think.
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2015-01-20, 12:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
I'm not sure how much it matters, but I'm fairly certain that Faye shows up hung over, has the conversation with Dora about putting the poison-scotch in the coffee, goes home to get sloshed with Pintsize, wakes up to find the other bottle in her bed, and goes to work again.
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2015-01-20, 12:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-01-20, 12:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2008
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
She was claiming to be sweating out the previous night's drinking when she was actually drunk off the new bottle already 3 pages ago, and yesterday she did ask to put the whiskey in her cup because she was hung over and used the hair of the dog excuse.
Are you people reading the same comic I am? I mean, obviously some of you are, but...
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2015-01-20, 12:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-01-20, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2013
Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Eh, it's not a big deal. It can be easy to lose track of the timeline in the comic, since things escalate so quickly in-comic, but take a long time to build in our reading of it.
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2015-01-20, 02:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Wow, Faye getting actual consequences for her bad decisions? Am I still reading the same comic?
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2015-01-20, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Its actually now the spin-off comic "Wholesome Content", in which Martian has a healthy relationship and Faye faces consequences for her poor decisions. This hopefully won't continue for too long.
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2015-01-20, 06:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Eh... am I the only one who thinks Dora is not acting properly? I mean, yes, Faye needs to be reigned in and as a business owner that surely is right, but Faye is also her friend nd firing her and sending her home where she will likely be alone seems lie the worst thing to do from that perspective
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2015-01-20, 07:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2010
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Well first off, over reacting is what dora does. Like, all the time. Secondly, I agree, she was right at the perfect point with "go home" And could have even followed up with, "Dont come back till you are sober and have your head on straight." But firing her as well? Thats a bit harsh to a long time friend who has had her first real screw up with you and her job.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2015-01-20, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 8: OMG I SHIP IT
Ehhh... there's support and then there's support. Sometimes the best thing to do is not the kindest thing. Dora is in a rather lousy situation here herself, as she has a number of priorities and bad things will come of ignoring any of them.
1. She has to keep her business intact, and keep up some kind of standards of conduct. A drunk employee is a lawsuit waiting to happen, to say nothing of driving away business even if no legal action is threatened. It doesn't matter whether it's heart surgery or making coffee... you don't want the person doing it for you to be intoxicated.
2. It would be good to, somehow, maintain her friendship with Faye... at least from the standpoint you suggest.
3. She needs to be fair to her other employees, and several ofthem are also her good friends (Hannelore, for one). It's not fair to them for Dora to let this slide, as they'll now be taking orders from a sloshed assistant manager.
4. She has her own happiness to maintain - while nice, she's not Faye's keeper and isn't obligated to put up with her antics even without the employer/employee relationship.
5. Even Faye's safety is in question - Coffee of Doom has hot objects and liquids, plus a broadsword and a few other dangerous objects. It's just not a good place to be drunk.
I guess the friendship thing enters the equation in Dora's off hours. Dora has handled her employer relationship the only way she can - larger companies can afford to have substance abuse programs, but Dora lacks the funds, time, and personnel to make that happen for Coffee of Doom - so that just leaves the question of how this impacts her friendship with Faye (other than 'negatively'). Does she follow up to try to convince Faye to get help (and yes, if Faye needs to drink at work it's definitely a problem, although I don't think anyone is contesting that) or does she just throw Faye out on the street and stop talking to her? Will she hire Faye back if she cleans up so that Faye's future work references (try putting 'fired from last job for drinking at work' on a resume and see what happens) won't be so lousy? I guess we'll find out.
Edit: Also, this is not Faye's "First Major Screw-up," this is her second major screw-up this week.Last edited by Jade_Tarem; 2015-01-20 at 07:50 PM.
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