Line #15 PlayingWith/OnlySaneEmployee

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1	'''Basic Trope''': When you have this job, it doesn't matter what your job description says your job is, your real job is to manage crazy people.
2	* '''Straight''': [[OnlySaneWoman Alice]] often has to keep her co-workers [[CloudCuckooLander Bob]], [[ReallyGetsAround Claire]], [[AxeCrazy Danny]] and [[DumbBlonde Ella]] under control.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': She spends more time doing this than she spends actually ''doing her job''.
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Alice will occasionally have to calm her co-workers down, but not much else.
6	** Alice is the only ''sane'' employee, but while her co-workers are all ''weird'', [[BunnyEarsLawyer this does not interfere with their abilities to do their jobs]].
7	** Alice, despite being not sane herself, [[BunnyEarsLawyer seems to be the only employee to know what she's doing on the clock]], while everyone at the workplace is portrayed as either [[TheLoad incompetent]] or [[TheMillstone a detriment]], making her the leader of this group by default.
8	* '''Justified''': Hey, ''someone's'' gotta keep these people in line!
9	* '''Inverted''': Alice is the only quirky co-worker of an otherwise sane cast. They spend most of their time keeping ''her'' under control.
10	* '''Subverted''': Alice is actually just as insane as the rest of them.
11	* '''Double Subverted''': ...but she knows that she has to behave herself at work, and tries to make the others do the same.
12	* '''Parodied''': ''Every'' workplace in Troperville has someone like this.
13	* '''Zig Zagged''': Whether Alice is holding the SanityBall or not varies DependingOnTheWriter.
14	* '''Averted''':
15	** Alice's co-workers are just as sane as she is.
16	** [[CastFullOfCrazy Alternatively: Alice is just as insane as her co-workers.]]
17	* '''Enforced''': "We need ''some'' sanity in this show! Let's introduce someone to keep the others in line."
18	* '''Lampshaded''': "Honestly, without me, they'd ''never'' get their work done!"
19	* '''Invoked''': Alice's boss, Freya, hires her specifically to help her keep her employees under control.
20	* '''Exploited''': Her coworkers never worry about their {{Zany Scheme}}s going south because they know that Alice will be the one to clean up the mess.
21	* '''Defied''': "I give up! I'll never be able to get these people to get their work done!"
22	* '''Discussed''':
23	-->'''Freya:''' Thank God I hired you. Otherwise no one would ever get their work done.
24	* '''Conversed''': "Have you ever noticed that there's always one normal employee in these shows?"
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26	Danny, put down the stapler and head back to OnlySaneEmployee.
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28	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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30	%%* '''Implied''': ???
31	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
32	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
33	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
34	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / OnlySaneEmployee