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January 22nd, 2019 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Abdiel
    Abdiel
    January 22, 2019 at 11:44 am | # | Reply

    You know, the sad part of this mess is that other than the reason for the defiance, Jim is 100% correct. You just can’t have people flat out saying, “Fark it, don’t care what the boss says, doing it anyway!” and continue to function as a company/event/whatever.
    But then you get situations like this, where the boss is 100% wrong as hell and refuses to admit it. What do?? It just doesn’t end well no matter what.

    • Xero
      Xero
      January 23, 2019 at 10:55 am | # | Reply

      Except the guy dressed as a nazi was violating 2 restraint orders and was only dressed that way to troll con goers

      • mitamaking
        mitamaking
        January 23, 2019 at 6:38 pm | # | Reply

        To be fair, the restraining order only came up when Lynn needed a way to get out of punching Terrance. If Lynn had led with it, they could have gotten rid of Terrence, but then she wouldn’t get to punch a Nazi.

    • Nicholas Schneider
      Nicholas Schneider
      January 23, 2019 at 11:37 am | # | Reply

      Except that the reason for all of that nullifies him having any good reason whatsoever of acting like a shit like this.

      Additionally, Lynn did not quit, she was forcefully removed from her position in an act of very, very negative character assassination. So no, even WITHOUT the reason, he’s still in the wrong.

      He acted like a complete and total dick because A) He would not do anything about a person walking around in Nazi guarb and acted like removing him is a bigger deal and unnecessary when it is completely so B) About a person that ALREADY has a restraining order against them and C) was suddenly upset when Lynn reacted the way she did because he chose to sit on his hands about a goddamn Nazi walking around.

      The man’s an idiot and a jackass to boot masquerading around as a ‘good con chair’. He is not a good con chair if he is letting some doofus run around and Nazi garb and actively working against anyone on his staff wanting to act on a policy they very much have in force. Its asinine to the highest degree and he has no one to blame but himself over the whole thing because he could have easily, easily prevented it.

  2. E. Bernhard Warg
    E. Bernhard Warg
    January 22, 2019 at 12:23 pm | # | Reply

    $20 pre-reg? Not bad! How many days is the con?

    • Langland
      Langland
      January 23, 2019 at 7:10 am | # | Reply

      It’s for the weekend. It’s common for pre reg tables to sponsor an early bird special. It gets people to pre register and guarantees money for the con. It’s kind of like when oeople book plane tickets to a city months in advance and the tickets are significantly cheaper than they are the day the plane flies.

      • E. Bernhard Warg
        E. Bernhard Warg
        January 23, 2019 at 4:31 pm | # | Reply

        I know about pre-reg discounts, I wondered if it was a two day or three day con?

        • Trae Dorn
          Trae Dorn
          January 23, 2019 at 5:38 pm | # | Reply

          Three day.

          • E. Bernhard Warg
            E. Bernhard Warg
            January 23, 2019 at 6:18 pm | #

            Thanks!
            And of course it now occurs to me that I could have checked the archives … where it’s immediately clear from the titles … sorry …

  3. John Trauger
    John Trauger
    January 22, 2019 at 1:02 pm | # | Reply

    Jim has a right to be angry that Lynn defied him. She lied to his face when, as con director, he needed a truthful answer. That also means Unagi con is better off with staff that won’t support the team, so why get too mad about it? He might have expected better from a friend but he didn’t put it that way.

    Lynn quitting afterward would hardly come as a surprise considering Jim’s whispering campaign.

    Poaching Garner would be the one that stings.

    • Viktor
      Viktor
      January 22, 2019 at 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      She lied to his face only after he refused to enforce their hate speech policy. That hate speech policy is a promise from the con to everyone(including staff) who isn’t white/straight/male/abled that they will be safe at the con. When Jim refused to enforce that policy, it was left to everyone who attended or was working at the con to guarantee their own safety, which she did. Why should Jim expect honesty from her about that after the fact? It was his own failures as a director and as a decent human being that caused the problem in the first place.

    • Nicholas Schneider
      Nicholas Schneider
      January 23, 2019 at 11:40 am | # | Reply

      It bothers me very much that this concept seems to be so hard to grasp on people who read this webcomic.

      She lied to Jim because he didn’t want to do anything about a goddamn troll walking around as a Nazi despite them having a very specific policy about that sort of shit. Jim’s an idiot, and no, he is not in the right whatsoever ESPECIALLY after the act of character assassination because he didn’t get his way.

      He’s a complete jackass and he’s completely in the wrong 100%. There’s no middle ground on this.

      • Shadow
        Shadow
        January 23, 2019 at 2:48 pm | # | Reply

        Nicholas Schneider & Viktor – You are the kind of folks who make me wish this comment section had a like/up-vote.

        • morn greycastle
          morn greycastle
          January 23, 2019 at 7:21 pm | # | Reply

          I know, right?

  4. Shadow
    Shadow
    January 22, 2019 at 1:23 pm | # | Reply

    He started a smear campaign against her. She had every right and every reason to quit. And he can’t fault Lynn for Garner ‘s decision either – particularly since the selling point for him was not wanting to work with someone who does nothing about Nazis.

    I can see where he’d be mad she lied about punching Terrance, but I imagine it would have gone over worse if the con had ignored the Nazi wandering around the con and the staff did nothing about it. You don’t want to be the con director that just let that go.

  5. Xero
    Xero
    January 23, 2019 at 10:44 am | # | Reply

    She didn’t quit you kicked her out

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