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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
Truec:
--- Quote from: TRVA123 on 30 Jan 2015, 17:03 ---You can't hold Dora responsible for Faye drinking herself into the hospital after being fired.
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Can and will, but only to the extent that Faye remains responsible for her own actions, and I only hold Dora responsible for hers. Dora did the right thing at the time by firing Faye, her employee who she just caught drinking on the job. The right thing to do later would have been to stop by and see Faye, her friend who's been having some tough shit happen to her exacerbating her drinking problem. It was perfectly okay, necessary, and rational to fire Faye and tell her to get help. My problem with Dora is that her friend told her she wanted to be drunk all the time, then she acted on that, and Dora just piled more shit on her (shit she had coming, don't get me wrong) without lending any emotional support. What the hell did she think was going to happen?
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: Truec on 30 Jan 2015, 17:18 ---
--- Quote from: TRVA123 on 30 Jan 2015, 17:03 ---You can't hold Dora responsible for Faye drinking herself into the hospital after being fired.
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Can and will, but only to the extent that Faye remains responsible for her own actions, and I only hold Dora responsible for hers. Dora did the right thing at the time by firing Faye, her employee who she just caught drinking on the job. The right thing to do later would have been to stop by and see Faye, her friend who's been having some tough shit happen to her exacerbating her drinking problem. It was perfectly okay, necessary, and rational to fire Faye and tell her to get help. My problem with Dora is that her friend told her she wanted to be drunk all the time, then she acted on that, and Dora just piled more shit on her (shit she had coming, don't get me wrong) without lending any emotional support. What the hell did she think was going to happen?
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I still disagree that Dora visiting Faye would be a good thing. If Dora's feeling terrible (which she quite obviously is), then I imagine it's about doubly so for Faye - she knows she dun fucked up, and seeing Dora will only serve to put just how much she has, front and center. The best course, therefore, is to give Faye some time and space for the situation to cool down a bit, rather than to slap her in the face with a reminder of just -how much- she's screwed things up.
TRVA123:
What the hell did Marten think was going to happen? what about Hanners (who probably heard that Faye was fired before Marten did)?
Pintsize WAS there, and Faye either broke him or shut him down. How do you think she would have reacted to a person walking in?
Dora is not fucking psychic. She didn't know what Faye would do after she left. She also probably had to stay at the shop and keep it open (since, you know, Faye wasn't able to work her shift.) Even if she did stop by there is no gaurantee that she would have gotten there before Marten did. We don't know what time Marten got off of work, it might have been the same time or before Dora's shift ended.
Dora also probably had the empathy to know that Faye probably didn't want to see Dora. Would you want to see the person who had JUST FIRED YOU drop by? Dora might also have taken some chill time of her own, to get her own head and emotions in order before she went to Fayes and... idk.. overreacted somehow?
themacnut:
--- Quote from: Knight of Cydonia on 30 Jan 2015, 14:50 ---Faye needed a good hard slap-dose of reality to make her realise that she has.... not necessarily fucked up? But has gone the wrong way and needs to work on getting herself back to being happy with herself.
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(emphasis mine)
Oh no no no, Faye dun fucked up, and fucked up badly. Showing up drunk to work, and then getting caught in the act of drinking even more? No, that is a job-ending fuck-up among many employers, especially after the warnings Faye has gotten (posters in this thread and the previous ones have posted links to comics where fair warning was given). Dora is lucky she caught Faye before she did something like blow up the espresso machine or spill hot coffee on a customer - or worse.
It sucks to be Faye right now, that's for sure. But then, it's sucked to be Faye for a awhile now, hasn't it? We will find out whether she thinks it sucks enough being her to motivate her to give up the bottle, or crawl back into one the instant she gets home from the hospital.
Sorflakne:
--- Quote from: Orkboy on 30 Jan 2015, 17:18 ---
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 30 Jan 2015, 11:24 ---Making a motion to have the official motto of the forum changed to "Relax, it's only a webcomic."
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Thirded.
Read a couple pages of this thread and remembered why I stopped reading WCDT.
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