Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
Oilman:
No-one involved in this arc has handled it well.
FAYE has created the whole issue. Marten, through his own naivety and lack of perception, has enabled it. Pintsize just acted as a free antagonist. Angus appeared to enable it, to some degree; he certsinly wasn't seen to raise it as a relationship issue. Dora acted as an enabler on a personal level, to some degree on a work level, and then mishandled the situation at work by acting precipitately over an issue that was probably inevitable at some point.
Sven, Marigold, Dale and Claire aren't really involved, for various reasons, nor are the various secondary characters like Emily, Clinton and Steve. Tai's louche behaviour hasn't helped. HANNERS has her own issues, and is showing herself as sympathetic and practical when it matters, not fir the first time either.
Kicks up the backside all round, I think
Smallest:
I'm torn between 'aw Hanners.' and 'panel 3, called it. (under spoiler)'
Tova:
And there it is, rolling in.
Dora is being as tactful as she could possibly be in this situation.
Suggestion she should have left it ambiguous over whether she was still fired? That would be crappy.
Telling her via text? Sorry, but you've got to be flipping joking. That is the most tactless thing I can think of.
Walking in would be shitty. Saying anything that gives her false hope about her job would be shitty. Doing anything suggested by people accusing her off being shitty would in fact be shitty.
Channelore HellicottAtham:
I think Dora's doing the right thing all-round, even regarding actually mentioning the firing, too. It'll answer Faye's (and probably everyone else's) biggest questions of her right now: whether Faye is indeed still fired, and for Faye's sake the insurance information. She shouldn't feel pressured into putting Faye back on, and I don't think it's necessarily a terrible outcome for Faye either. Faye HAS to pull herself together now, whether that means soldiering on or going to rehab / counselling first. She cannot limp on in this emotional limbo just because her work allows her to maintain her status quo of taking out problems / bitchiness upon coworkers and customers and to muddle on through, neither very happy and fulfilled, but not unhappy enough to make a change.
On that note I very much hope that it inspires her to take stock of her life limbo too, perhaps look at what she's doing, where she's going, who and what she wants to be. In a way Dora's going to cop the flak for this and may feel herself that she is going to lose her friends because of her response to Faye's actions. It would be very easy to just take her back because she chose the least useful and a very destructive way to deal with her problems, but firing Faye is right for her business responsibilities and also for Faye. Another point I guess is that if she's no longer required for the cafe she can take the time out to attend rehab, visit family, without feeling she's passing over shifts or using up sick leave.
Just some random thoughts. I know Dora's temper is rather.. temperamental.. but she's not above shouldering responsibility where needed. :)
CMGeorge:
Dora is stuck between the emotional reaction and the logical. The emotions are telling her that all of this is her fault, that she was the one to end a friendship, and that she sent Faye to the hospital. The logic is telling Dora that no, Faye screwed her own life up, and that Dora was right to fire her to protect her livelihood.
That conflict between the two results in Dora hanging out outside the hospital feeling like crap, not inside where she likely wants to be.... and also results in a goodwill gesture delivered in a less than tactfully worded way.
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