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WCDT Strips 4331-4335 (18-22, August 2020)

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alc40:

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--- Quote from: BenRG on 17 Aug 2020, 04:06 ---[...] it is implied that her former boss coerced her into letting customers sexually abuse her [...]
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It is? When?
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I wish I remembered in detail but I think it was in the same arc where Brun and Clinton went on a similar not-date to the one Clinton went on with Elliot just now. During which they talked about relationships and Brun mentioned that her employer had pressured her to let the clientele leer at her and generally disrespect her boundaries.

IIRC, it included Clinton visualising Elliot as a giant caveman ready to fight him for Brun's attention.

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I can't find anything with all those pieces together, but here are the closest things I could find:

3262: Brun's former boss possibly doing "something ethically questionable"
3446: mention of a bar patron harassing Brun (no mention of the boss knowing)
3496: Brun & Clinton having lunch together
3507: Clinton imagines Elliot as a cave man

Pilchard123:
I always read the "ethically questionable" as things like "watering down the beer" or "not declaring things for tax", tbh.

Zebediah:
There's another possibility with Brun. Sometimes those of us on the autism spectrum get the idea that romantic relationships are off-limits to us, because "Who would ever want to be with a weirdo like you?" Brun likely had to endure some of that kind of bullying, judging by the glimpse we saw of her high school years. She might have simply resigned herself to the idea that romance is another one of those things that she's not allowed to do, and is only slowly starting to get the idea that it might not be so.

Mr_Rose:

--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 17 Aug 2020, 13:53 ---I always read the "ethically questionable" as things like "watering down the beer" or "not declaring things for tax", tbh.

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Or the Classical trick of swapping a cheaper beer with approximately the same colour in for whatever the customer actually ordered once you judge them drunk enough not to notice.
Watering beer is actually jail time illegal in some places while “accidentally” serving the wrong thing isn’t - especially if you apologise and give a refund when (if) they complain.
Other options include topping off discarded/abandoned drinks and serving them to new customers, serving Dollar-store wine mixed with sugar and cheap vodka as “sherry”, and of course good old fashioned charging more per pint as they get more soused, most of which are straight up illegal in most places, but that only stops a few people.

Cornelius:
In my grandparents' bar, it was usual to swap the drink ordered by someone who had had to many with something alcohol free - or close enough not to matter - but they didn't charge incorrectly. Then again, it's not the kind of thing that really can fly if you have mostly regulars, who know what the policy is. And they also knew there's be a ride home, if needed.

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