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WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
Dicrostonyx:
My impression of Tai has always been that she takes individual things seriously or not based on what is important to her, not based on social norms or expectations. For the purposes of the job, that means that all of the work gets done, students are given needed help, etc., but she doesn't bother with dress codes or other elements of traditional formality. I don't see her as someone who would get high at work often, if at all.
This is, for example, why she was willing to hire Marten immediately and has kept him on. If she were high all of the time he likely wouldn't have remained working there for long, either by his choice or her randomly changing her mind. Instead, she hired him because she had a good feeling about him as a person, which has been borne out by his willingness to learn and do the job rather than to simply coast. She did not worry about his experience or long-term ambitions, because neither affects her view of the world.
Working on this assumption, I think that the "good job" review is basically a joke. She may ask the interns to write their own evaluations, or to write them for each other, but she has probably already written real ones and would use that exercise as a test.
Omega Entity:
Except we have empirical evidence in-comic that Tai -does- get high at work on at least a semi-regular basis, and not just on weed. I don't recall what substance she was on when she was seeing Marten and... I think it was Hanners? as dragons.
As for taking personal things seriously, I'd have to disagree, as evidenced by, for example, her lack of taking Marten's warning about messing with Hanners seriously after he tried at least twice to try and get her to do so. There's more examples, but that one's the first to come to mind.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 21 Apr 2015, 22:06 ---On the other hand, he's friends and Mother live in town, his band lives and practices there.
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Marten might be better off with a reasonable distance between him and his overbearing mother.
hakko504:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 21 Apr 2015, 20:43 ---I've often wondered what Tai has on the Library Administration that makes it possible for her to maintain her position there.
I envisage some minor drama here from Claire.
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A similar one to the one that gave Marten a raise?
As a side note, the only guy I've known that smoke weed during work was let go, not so much because of the weed but more because his language deteriorated into cluster f-bombs, sometimes interrupted by normal words, when he was high. He even sent emails to people that were impossible to read because of the extreme ratio of naughty words to actual content (well over 10:1).
Lubricus:
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 21 Apr 2015, 22:24 ---Except we have empirical evidence in-comic that Tai -does- get high at work on at least a semi-regular basis, and not just on weed. I don't recall what substance she was on when she was seeing Marten and... I think it was Hanners? as dragons.
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LSD.
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