Every strip needs a character we love to hate. Zucchini-head is the main antagonist, of course, but Courtney does a good job. In a real store she would have been fired long ago.
Mmm, I dunno, I had to supervise an associate that hung on for way longer (I’m talking multiple months) than she should have been able to. This included being rude to customers, calling out a lot, taking an hour and 45 minutes for her lunch break to go to a hair appointment and trying to spread lies about me and my then boyfriend (now husband) to get us in trouble. This is all in addition to her being mostly incompetent at her job in general, so it’s not like they had even one good reason to keep her around beyond reluctance to fire anyone right away. She isn’t the only example of that either, just probably the worst one I saw in ~7 years.
Not that Stuart (or anyone else in management) realizes it, but it’s a fairly basic tenet of group dynamics that if there is at least one member whom no one likes, other interpersonal frictions tend to be far less obvious. Folks get along better and more gets done.
Of course, you need a certain “critical mass” of group members before you can spare the work that another person working that job (rather than the unpopular- and usually poorly productive – group-member) might otherwise accomplish.
Every strip needs a character we love to hate. Zucchini-head is the main antagonist, of course, but Courtney does a good job. In a real store she would have been fired long ago.
Mmm, I dunno, I had to supervise an associate that hung on for way longer (I’m talking multiple months) than she should have been able to. This included being rude to customers, calling out a lot, taking an hour and 45 minutes for her lunch break to go to a hair appointment and trying to spread lies about me and my then boyfriend (now husband) to get us in trouble. This is all in addition to her being mostly incompetent at her job in general, so it’s not like they had even one good reason to keep her around beyond reluctance to fire anyone right away. She isn’t the only example of that either, just probably the worst one I saw in ~7 years.
Not that Stuart (or anyone else in management) realizes it, but it’s a fairly basic tenet of group dynamics that if there is at least one member whom no one likes, other interpersonal frictions tend to be far less obvious. Folks get along better and more gets done.
Of course, you need a certain “critical mass” of group members before you can spare the work that another person working that job (rather than the unpopular- and usually poorly productive – group-member) might otherwise accomplish.