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WCDT: 2878-2882 (19-23 January 2015)
Is it cold in here?:
Notice how close The Pugnacious Peach already is to hitting bottom.
She's lost the job that was the center of her social life and which gave her a purpose and scope for growth. The job market is terrible where she lives (remember Momo's difficulties). It was not the drinking that did it, but she's lost the relationship she was depending on for healing.
What she has left is Marten, who might try to cover all the rent himself out of confusing martyrdom with friendship, but who probably can't afford to. And even Marten can be pushed too far.
EDIT: She doesn't even have a car to live in after losing the apartment.
mikmaxs:
--- Quote from: Tova on 19 Jan 2015, 20:02 ---
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 19 Jan 2015, 19:52 ---Something a lot of people seem to ignore: Faye is clinically depressed. If her alcoholism were just a problem in and of itself, I could understand the hate on her, but she's got a disease. She is sick.
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Something a lot of people routinely ignore: Dora is not privy to our knowledge. She is not seeing what we are seeing. What's obvious to us is not obvious to her, and even we get into arguments over what we've seen.
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Dora has seen more than anyone else, though. Dora is the only one who heard Faye say (and I bring this up again) that she never wants to be sober, ever. Ignoring everything else we've seen, that one thing puts Faye squarely in the 'Really needs help' section.
Also, where are the other CoD employees in all of this?
Alphawolf55:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 19 Jan 2015, 19:52 ---Something a lot of people seem to ignore: Faye is clinically depressed. If her alcoholism were just a problem in and of itself, I could understand the hate on her, but she's got a disease. She is sick.
Also, once again, it's not Dora's actions I'm mad at, it's her nonactiom. If she had sat down Faye and talked to her, been assured that everything was okay, and *then* all of this happened, it'd be fine. If Dora seemed reluctant to fire Faye but had to for legal reasons, it'd be fine. But as it stands, after being told by Faye that she intends to drink herself into oblivion, Dora did pretty much nothing. She didn't try and fail, she didn't try and get rejected, she just didn't *try*.
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Alcohoism itself isn't a disease but whatever causes it seems to be. Dora has told Faye before not to drink, she isn't equipped to handle Faye problem considering her own.
MrNumbers:
Yes Dora. Your friend is obviously in need. Firing them is the best thing to do at the moment.
God damn it, Faye's consistently been established to be volatile but still one of her best damn employees. She also knows that this behaviour is uncharacteristic. I understand why she'd be pissed, but Jesus Christ this seems like the worst possible thing for Dora to have done.
In one fell swoop she's exacerbated her friend's suffering when they're already past breaking point and lost one of her best employees for an incident that, whilst it isn't exactly minor, was more deserving of disciplinary action than termination. It's just bad business.
Especially when customers come just for her service in particular.
Seriously. A massive pay dock and the loss of a few shifts for a while. There are levels between "Nothing/Coddling" and "Termination".
EDIT: By 'uncharacteristic' I don't mean the drinking. Using alcohol to cope has been typical behaviour for her. She's never let it interfere with her work, before, though.
Alphawolf55:
The only reason why Faye is one of the best employees is by being best of the worse, not by any actual quality.
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