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WCDT: 2878-2882 (19-23 January 2015)
Method of Madness:
Like I said before, telling her to go home, giving both an opportunity to cool off. Firing her in the morning would've still been much better.
Alphawolf55:
The problem is the fair but firm response is firing Faye. If Faye wants to skip work to stay home and get drunk thats one thing but her choosing to come in drunk and planning to drink on the job when quite frankly she's already a poor worker sober shows a lack of respect on Faye part. No one would bat an eyelash if Dora did this to unnamed employee #3. Faye being her best friend is no excuse either.
Waiting for the morning might make Dora go soft and change her mind, sometimes you have to do things in the moment to make them stick.
ASB84:
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--- Quote from: ASB84 on 19 Jan 2015, 16:03 ---To be honest, I'm kind of glad to see Faye get fired, and hope that it sticks...at least for a little while. I think this is a storyline that needs serious consequences, and shouldn't be resolved quickly and within a week of strips. If there has been a weakness in the writing of QC over the years, it's that a storyline will lead up to a drama bomb, and then everything is over and done with and resolved very quickly, with minimal fallout or residual tension in a situation where there really should be some fences to mend and lasting consequences to deal with.
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So you're hoping for "Dora and Marten not speaking for 200 strips" level of drama.
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It doesn't necessarily have to be that, but something other than a week of strips then forgiveness, just to maintain status quo. It's a pretty big deal, a pretty big breach of rules and trust. Barring a time-skip, I think it does need to play out over a longer amount of time, in-universe and in terms of the number of strips. I don't want to put an exact number on it, but if this is all water under the bridge by next week, I think it'll make things a bit anti-climactic, and potentially stifle any further character development for Faye.
--- Quote from: Alphawolf55 on 19 Jan 2015, 16:56 ---The problem is the fair but firm response is firing Faye. If Faye wants to skip work to stay home and get drunk thats one thing but her choosing to come in drunk and planning to drink on the job when quite frankly she's already a poor worker sober shows a lack of respect on Faye part. No one would bat an eyelash if Dora did this to unnamed employee #3. Faye being her best friend is no excuse either.
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Agreed. Faye has also been given plenty of rope throughout the years, and has recently been entrusted with more responsibility as the assistant manager. Best friend or not, I can't fault Dora for taking a zero tolerance approach, especially when she's been pretty clear about her stance on the matter.
Alphawolf55:
I forgot she's assistant manager that makes it even worse on Faye's part.
Blackbird:
Faye isn't just her employee or her friend. Faye is her assistant manager, the person she's supposed to be able to be trust beyond a shadow of a doubt, and she just slapped Dora's trust in the face.
My prediction: Faye cleans up in a few days (comic time), asks for her job back, and of course gets her original job back but finds out Penny is the new asst. manager. Hilarity ensues.
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