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WCDT: 2878-2882 (19-23 January 2015)
Zalder:
--- Quote from: grez on 21 Jan 2015, 21:39 ---Also, I can't help but wonder what Faye's next line would have been if Dora had simply stopped after the second panel. :?
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I'm assuming she would have tried to joke/charm her way back into Dora's good graces. That seems to be her m.o. I don't think she would have lost her cool if she hadn't been directly told to confront her issues.
Zalder:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 21 Jan 2015, 21:43 ---No speculation as to where the story line will go, but I have to say Jeph did an amazing job with the DFF (Dora Fury Face) in panel 2 of Thursday's strip.
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I was just talking with someone about how that just might be the angriest face we've seen on Dora.
haikupoet:
I'm baffled as to how anyone can not be giving Dora the benefit of the doubt here. In my view, it's reasonable, even desirable, to be friends with your employees, but you still have to be a hardass when shit hits the fan like this. Now, admittedly, I'm an aspie so this is something that'll probably come across as being very weird to some people, but you gotta do what's best for the situation, right?
plusorminus:
I have real problems with Faye's entitlement here. You "can't" fire me? Uh? Special snowflake much? You come into work plastered and you expect that to be cool?
And yet, I think this is an issue that goes back to Dora. She has issues asserting boundaries and then she doubles down and it's seen as irrational. I will always believe that Dora should have broken up with Marten when he balked at living with her without Faye. To me, it seemed clear that for Marten, Faye was always going to come first. I think Dora realized that subconsciously, but she didn't enforce boundaries, which set up the acrimonious breakup.
Here, as she says, she put up with Faye's blatant disrespect to other employees. Faye hazed Raven and was a shit to Penny. I've actually never really seen her interact much at all with Cosette, and she's Hanners' friend and is sort of *shrug* about Dale. Dora should have shut her down back when it was just her, Raven and Faye and Faye acted like a shit to Raven continuously. Dora allowed Faye to feel untouchable and now she's reaping the whirlwind.
I want Faye to stay gone from CoD. I don't wish her ill and I do hope she takes someone's advice to get help. Angus doesn't want her anymore. She's lost her job. Marten is in a budding relationship with someone else. Sven is ... Sven. Faye has basically hit bottom and it's up to her - not Dora, not Marten, not Hannelore - to pull herself out. I hope she does. But I don't want her back at CoD, and to be frank, I don't want her and Dora to interact after this.
I do think Jeph is setting this up to phase Dora out of the comic, at which point I'll bid the comic adieu. His choice, of course, but QC without Dora being a large part of it won't work for me. However, if he is putting Dora on a metaphorical bus to ensure that she has washed her hands of Faye's toxicity for once and all, I'll approve. I won't continue to read, but I'll approve.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 21 Jan 2015, 19:37 ---Thank FSM she doesn't have a car.
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No kidding. I once sent someone home for showing up to work completely drunk and who spent the first hour of her shift vomiting in the toilet. I had no authority to fire her, and the boss didn't decide to do so. About an hour after that, my remaining co-worker and I realised in horror that she always *drove* to work, and despite trying to do the right thing, let someone who was completely smashed behind the wheel of a car.
In retrospect, it'd have been better to let her sleep it off on the sofas, at least until the owner came in, that is.
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