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WCDT: 2878-2882 (19-23 January 2015)
aphanisis81:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 18 Jan 2015, 19:54 ---Ummm... a fifth is larger than a pint. A pint is only an eighth of a gallon, half a quart.
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Last week, I mentioned that in my early 20s I worked at a bar in Northampton in which on-the-clock drunkenness (not to me mention pot, some hard drugs, and sex) was basically tolerated so long as employees didn't fuck things up too badly. Not condoned, but tolerated. In those days, I could drink a pint of Seagram's Seven (which is gross, btw) during/after work, then get up and work a lunch shift, usually with a few slugs of hair-of-the-dog beer sneaked from the bar's taps to get me through.
Now I work for a college and have a kid, and if I have a second IPA with dinner I get sleepy.
My point is that early 20s hedonism isn't necessarily a problem. Everyone I worked with at that place is fine now, and most have settled down with families into relatively mellow, sober lives. If not for Faye's backstory, I would find this arc more of a comedy than a tragedy.
Sullivan:
--- Quote from: aphanisis81 on 19 Jan 2015, 02:49 ---
My point is that early 20s hedonism isn't necessarily a problem. Everyone I worked with at that place is fine now, and most have settled down with families into relatively mellow, sober lives. If not for Faye's backstory, I would find this arc more of a comedy than a tragedy.
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It's not just her backstory. There's also:
a) She's not using alcohol because of her backstory, or because she just likes having a buzz on through the day; she's using it to get past her hurt over Angus.
b) She's in a work environment where it is a problem, and
c) she knows that. And furthermore
d) she's lying about it,
e) clumsily.
Even without her backstory, I'm just not seeing "comedy."
aphanisis81:
--- Quote from: Sullivan on 19 Jan 2015, 03:40 ---
--- Quote from: aphanisis81 on 19 Jan 2015, 02:49 ---
My point is that early 20s hedonism isn't necessarily a problem. Everyone I worked with at that place is fine now, and most have settled down with families into relatively mellow, sober lives. If not for Faye's backstory, I would find this arc more of a comedy than a tragedy.
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It's not just her backstory. There's also:
a) She's not using alcohol because of her backstory, or because she just likes having a buzz on through the day; she's using it to get past her hurt over Angus.
b) She's in a work environment where it is a problem, and
c) she knows that. And furthermore
d) she's lying about it,
e) clumsily.
Even without her backstory, I'm just not seeing "comedy."
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a) doesn't concern me all that much. What's a little dissolute binge for, if not to misguidedly get through a breakup?
The rest, you have a point. Alienating friends and messing up one's employment (and a recent promotion) are certainly big problems in and of themselves.
Lubricus:
I worry that Dora might start doubting herself for giving Faye the extra responsibility. She's not all that mentally sturdy herself, and might get into some kind of existential anxiety as a result of Faye's meltdown. Dark times might be ahead. I still hope we might get some Marten and Claire sunshine and puppies to tide us over, though.
techkid:
At the very least, I think it might be time for a little role-reversal of another, not dis-similar incident.
Dora knows what's going on, and I don't think she will fire Faye over it. But, she will want her to get help ASAP, and will probably utilise any influence she has to get her to fix herself up. Even calling Angus over to talk to her would probably not be considered "below the belt", I don't think (would that week have passed in QC time, I wonder?).
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