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WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)

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brasca:

--- Quote from: blue5 on 11 Jul 2016, 02:56 ---I can't believe i am going to say this....renee is doing the responsible thing. Its brun that doesn't seem to have anything in order. I know that her place of work and residence has burnt down, but its her last address not renee's place.

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Yes, but she is applying for a job and if there is a background check involved human resources may think she's lying by using an address that no longer exists, however, I think it is more insight into Brun's mentality.  If the application requests her present address then she would write down Renee's because it is her present address.  It may not even be passive aggressive, but just the way she does things.   

SeaWoodStage:
Aha, thank you. We have a similar thing in the UK, where you can tell the PO to forward mail to another address for varying amounts of time. I've only done it once myself, and I must admit that option hadn't occurred to me. Still, you have to fill in forms, and it takes a few days to take effect, so depending on the timeline here I still think Renee is being a tad unreasonable.

I'm not hating on Renee here, and we know so little about Brun and Renee's history and friendship at this point that I may be taking an uncharitable view here. I just get the impression that she's one of those people who allows her own love of organising and/or being in charge to override the effort it would take to genuinely help a friend in the best way for that friend.

gopher:
Is the Ren/Bru plotline the longest we have had without a "central/existing" character interacting with them?

SeaWoodStage:

--- Quote from: swapna on 11 Jul 2016, 03:47 ---A replacement phone (or at least a number) needs about 10 minutes, really. She just would have needed to get out of the house, since you actually have to buy a pre-paid sim and a phone. She even could have asked Renee to get one for her, since she was outside working out anyway. I mean, Renee does seem a bit overbearing but does she really have to think of everything?
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It was the money side I was thinking of, really. I'm assuming Brun doesn't have much ready cash on hand, and maybe she had to max out a credit card to pay for the motel? Although, maybe you can still get basic model pre-paid handsets for a minimal amount of cash?

ETA: The way I see it at the moment is that Renee is presenting Brun with a bunch of stuff to do, in a way that implies Renee sure knows what she’s talking about. But if Renee’s so great at getting everyone’s life in order, you’d think it would’ve occurred to her that Brun doesn’t have a current working handset. So maybe she should’ve told Brun to get that sorted out first, in order to make the next steps run more smoothly.

Again, not hating on Renee. It’s just that at the moment, her strong-arm method doesn’t seem to mesh with the attitude of a friend who’s really thought things through. That being said, this is obviously an upheaval for Renee as well, so I’m more than willing to cut her some slack.

ETA2:

--- Quote from: brasca on 11 Jul 2016, 03:54 --- Yes, but she is applying for a job and if there is a background check involved human resources may think she's lying by using an address that no longer exists, however, I think it is more insight into Brun's mentality.  If the application requests her present address then she would write down Renee's because it is her present address.  It may not even be passive aggressive, but just the way she does things.   

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I believe I would do the same thing in this situation. I'm not always a particularly direct person, but in Brun's shoes I would assume that the most useful address to provide would be an existing address where I can at least be sure of receiving mail. As Is It Cold In Here pointed out, a forwarding order would probably work, but I can't say that would have occurred to me in this situation. As it stands, I see Brun's actions as pragmatic rather than passive-aggressive. I suppose time, and more comics, will tell.

Milayna:
Brun looks perfectly reasonable to me. She is answering the questions that are asked as truthfully as is possible. especially bearing in mind that the she can probably work out that the purpose of the questions is to confirm her valid existence and to contact her. Even if their systems don't reject "None" - technically, the MOST truthful responses - it obviously wouldn't satisfy the purpose of the questions.

And why would she think it would be a problem with Renee? Politeness might dictate that she should verify with Renee first, but Renee wasn't available, so a simple calculation (Renee would be upset if I hadn't done what she woke me up early to do, and might be upset if I user her contact information without explicit confirmation, but if she expects me to do this she implicitly confirms that I have permission to do what is necessary to complete it) leaves little doubt as to the right course of action.

Brun didn't know anything about insurance, and is probably used to people informing her of what actions she needs to take as Renee did last comic and Clinton did when he got the hotel, so I highly doubt she knows about post office forwarding (and who would try to contact her by mail for a job opening anyway? The point is to have a valid, googleable, permanently-existing address to verify she probably actually exists, isn't it?) or phone replacement. I mean, *I* didn't know anything about those until I read this thread. If it were me, and I had no money, I'd just assume it was bridge-camping until a friend came back.

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