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WCDT strips 4206 to 4210 (24th - 28th February 2020)
St.Clair:
Take the promotion, Roko. It's the only way you, and this entire organization, are going to get anything done. Beeps is manifestly unsuited for the position, and at this point I'm starting to question whether she's even capable of functioning as a legal adult.
SeattleCrochetWoman:
--- Quote from: Scarlet Manuka on 23 Feb 2020, 18:38 ---I think it's being taken too far. Nobody's this inept all the time.
More to the point, how does their chronically underfunded agency have money on hand for Beepatrice to go out and buy an expensive pen? Surely they don't have it just lying around in petty cash.
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I just thought the whole thing was exaggerated for comedic purposes. Maybe I’m just stupid or something though. I don’t seem to pick up on stuff like this.
TRenn:
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 24 Feb 2020, 21:22 ---Take the promotion, Roko. It's the only way you, and this entire organization, are going to get anything done. Beeps is manifestly unsuited for the position, and at this point I'm starting to question whether she's even capable of functioning as a legal adult.
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^^ This.
It would be one thing for Roko's normal agressiveness to cause her to unintentionally mount a coup in her workplace, but Beeps is literally asking for it here.
Scarlet Manuka:
--- Quote from: Tova on 23 Feb 2020, 20:00 ---
--- Quote from: Scarlet Manuka on 23 Feb 2020, 18:38 ---I think it's being taken too far.
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Yeah, not the first QC character that's prompted this thought. Jeph seems to lean into some of his characters' indiocynracies a little too heavily, like he doesn't quite trust his audience to get the message.
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I know others have expressed similar views about certain characters in the past, but it hasn't been the case for me previously; this is the first time I've seen it taken far enough that I have real trouble believing it.
If she really is as she's been presented recently, how did she ever get hired for the job in the first place? Why isn't Nelson the manager instead?
(Now, that last one does present some possible answers. Nelson could be happy working as an employee; an employee with an ineffective boss and nobody else to answer to can get a lot done. Of whatever activity they prefer to do, which is sometimes a problem!)
I think I'd rather see Nelson take over than Roko, though. Nelson in authority might be able to teach Roko how to handle being under authority properly.
--- Quote from: Pogopotamus on 24 Feb 2020, 07:27 ---Not sure about where this current storyline is going, but it's odd that bakery boss who doesn't seem to have the vaguest comprehension of appropriate personal or sexual harrassment boundaries when it comes to her employee Elliot, is full of lectures directed at him about his past associations.
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It's always easier to see other people's issues than your own.
BenRG:
I think what we are dealing with here is what I think of as "situational incompetence". In her area of expertise - evidently materials engineering - Beepatrice is perfectly competent. However, working at the advocacy group requires her to go far outside her comfort zone. She needs to have negotiation and administrative skills, neither of which she has. Indeed, the scenarios in which she needs them make her really uncomfortable, even frightened!
It's sad because she really wants to help people but she doesn't have the skills to do so. I think that, even though she never knew it, she's been waiting for Roko to come along and take charge for a while!
--- Quote from: Pogopotamus on 24 Feb 2020, 07:27 ---Not sure about where this current storyline is going, but it's odd that bakery boss who doesn't seem to have the vaguest comprehension of appropriate personal or sexual harrassment boundaries when it comes to her employee Elliot, is full of lectures directed at him about his past associations.
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Oh, she's aware, especially after Jim pointed it out to her! It's just that she's so attracted to Elliot that little intimate gestures and actions keep slipping out.
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