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WCDT 3611 to 3615 (13th to 17th November 2017)
brasca:
I don’t think someone as organized as Tilly could make such a wardrobe mistake. She may be capable of playing head games better than Hannelore’s passive aggressive name forgetting. Perhaps this is all about coaxing her to seize her destiny. I can even see Hannelore losing her temper and calling her Taffy to which Tilly will reply calmly “yes ma’am it’s Taffy” because you know if Beatrice mistook her name there’d be no polite correction.
citizenfive:
I agree with brasca on the "seize her destiny" thing because Beatrice sent Tilly there to groom Hannelore for business. Regarding Tilly not correcting Hannelore if she got mad and called her Taffy, I think that would require Hannelore's personality to be much closer to Beatrice's, which thankfully it isn't.
OldGoat:
Hanners knows exactly what she's doing to Ms Matilda. She knows what she's up against, has probed, and found the chink in Tilly's armor - that name. It's subtle, which Hannelore likes because she's loath to be overtly mean, but she wants to be rid of "Taffy" and intends to keep calling her that until she blows up and storms out of her own accord.
So far Jeph has represented the sofly spoken "It's Tilly" corrections in a small font. Look for them to get louder and louder and louder until it becomes "It's TILLY, God damn-it! TILLY! T-I-L-L-Y!!"
--- Quote from: Mr. Doctor on 15 Nov 2017, 05:32 ---The Taffy thing got pretty old for me and now I think Hanners is being kind of an ass even if Tilly is a much bigger annoyance. Although I believe the reason why I simply don't find it funny anymore is because of some co-workers. It's astonishing how many, after year and a half, still can't get through their skulls that my name is Rodrigo and that Rodriguez is a last name... It doesn't matter that I have a friggin nametag right on my chest.
So yeah, Hanners. It's Tilly.
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My surname is excellent bait for that kind of teasing, and in HS the assistant manager at my part time job was not a nice person (a co-worker asked, "From what, distemper?" when we learned she'd passed away a few years later). I just ignored it - as in not responding when she told me to do something using her little nickname. It actually broke her of the habit.
DesiArxxy:
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--- Quote from: brasca on 14 Nov 2017, 21:37 --- It's the shoes. I've never seen Hannelore wear heals and don't think she can.
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In a shop - where you are on your feet all day and constantly twisting and turning around and changing direction? OK, I don't wear heels and never have, but it sure feels like a recipe for screaming ankles to me. Does anyone who does wear heels want to disagree and correct me?
If test #1 for Tally was "Pick out suitable dress for the day ahead" I'd say that was an abject failure. Suitable for the executive head of the coffee shop chain who doesn't spend time on the shop floor maybe.
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I am not even sure Tilly drew heels. Just the way the perspective is makes it seem like drawing-Hanners is up on her toes. However exposed ankles and the top of your feet is a really, really bad idea in a job that involves hot liquids.
As far as wearing heels in that kind of environment, unless they were tall narrow heels it wouldn't be so bad. The big thing is how much support you have. With narrow heels you're putting most of your weight on the front half/toes and if your job involves standing all day that's going to be a big pain. Wearing chunky, low heels like I prefer or wedges means good foot support.
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Honestly, the outfit just shows how useless and incompetent Tilly actually is, because she is literally unable to conceive of anything outside the corporate world.
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Maybe she misunderstood Hanners' job. Her mother is, after all, a high-powered executive; and I doubt Beatrice bothered to inform her that Hanners is an minimum-wage employee in a tiny coffee-shop, not a manager/executive in a chain or something. And, she chose pretty much exactly what Hanners chose to wear for her 'interview' : http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1707
To Tilly, Hanners' work wouldn't make a lot of sense - she's richer than the average Saudi Prince, she doesn't need a minimum-wage job.
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No, Taffy "misunderstood" Hanners' job because, as she's already openly admitted, she believes in ignoring reality whenever it contradicts her instructions from corporate and/or her own ideological viewpoint. Given that Taffy "did her homework" to the point of having memorized detailed profiles of every single person around Hanners, there is no possibility that this is an innocent mistake. None whatsoever.
--- Quote ---Also, I'm really bothered by the whole Taffy thing. It's one thing to get confused once, but Tilly said her name for no less than three times. I don't think it's Hanners' being an ass on purpose, it's her not perceiving Tilly as a person - just like her mother.
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Taffy really isn't a person, she's a corporate drone. And Hanners needs to not perceive Taffy as a person in order to not be taken advantage of by Taffy, who is basically Beatrice in a passive-aggressive "nice" persona instead of an aggressive "dominant bitch" persona.
Case:
--- Quote from: swapna on 15 Nov 2017, 08:32 ---Also, I'm really bothered by the whole Taffy thing. It's one thing to get confused once, but Tilly said her name for no less than three times. I don't think it's Hanners' being an ass on purpose, it's her not perceiving Tilly as a person - just like her mother.
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True. Then and again, Taffy Tilly isn't exactly treating Hanners like a person - with wishes and preferences of her own, or boundaries - either.
(OCD can absolutely tap into your 'imp of the perverse', though I'm not sure whether that's Jeph's intention here: as a sort of 'subconscious revenge-tic'. I wouldn't be entirely out of character for my OCD-addled heatmeats, though ...)
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