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Author: DunDun

May 5th 2013 at 3:29:16 PM

This sounds like a supertrope of a staff shortage as it's currently written.  "The whole island is understaffed" is not the same as "The secretaries are understaffed."

Also, what does this mean for the story? for the characters?  The fact that there's fewer staff on the job during the story means what for the audience? for the legitimacy of the plot?  As it's written, this sounds like PeopleSitOnChairs.  I've worked at a coffee shop where management decided to ''intentionally'' kept fewer-than-normal employees scheduled on Sundays; where normally there were five or six, there were two or three, and trust me when I say that it ''completely'' changes one's work ethic.  The lazy bastard employee knows they cannot act like that ''today'' while the give-it-their-all employee burns out early and acts like a lazy bastard employee the rest of the day.

And that's just for when its on a microscale.  You're talking about the macroscale here.  What does this do to the group in the story?  It's important for the trope to keep it away from TRS down the line.