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Note: While it’s true that many things are based on actual events, the characters contained within this strip are not meant to be direct analogs for actual people. They are not based off of people living, dead, or undead and any resemblance is coincidental. Nor are they based off of Ferrets.
Because that would be weird.
Got to ask here: Why was Terrence added to Bork Con staff if he was this incompetent?
Forgetting his ego issues, someone made a big mistake recommending Terrence and approving his addition. The weird thing is it doesn’t seem like anybody has any prior experience with him and someone just about had to.
Bork Con has open meetings where anyone can join general staff. It’s not an uncommon thing
Sometimes the con’s parent organization insists that you let someone be on staff even though you already have a list of ways he’s already screwed things up and caused problems and they’re going “But he means well and he’s so energetic!” so you go along with it because you’re trying to get them to agree to a bunch of cool things they have to approve like having the talking elevators speak Japanese for the weekend and you’re trying to choose your battles wisely and you have to hold your tongue when they throw him out two years later for all of the new problems he’s caused and you don’t show up at their meeting yelling “I TOLD YOU SO!” when they complain that he copied the entire organization mailing list and started using it.
It happens a lot in the business world, too. There’s the obvious cases of someone who is just borderline competent enough and just good enough at staying on the good side of the right people to remain employed for years despite being worse than having no one in the position at all. But there’s also random new hires who can make it through an interview just fine, and seem to do okay in training, but then turn out to be utterly incompetent whenever no one is actively watching them to make sure they don’t screw up. It’s actually really hard to tell who is going to work out and who isn’t until you see them work, which is why the death of the middle-manager position is so bad long-term for companies, even if they don’t realize it.