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Why couldn't Pel stay on the station?

It's going to be a long time before the Ferengi Alliance is Federation 2.0!
You don't think Quark and Brunt are the only conservative Ferengi out there, do you?

No, but they seem pretty powerless. Of the 400 power brokers Zek tried to bring in after he was deposed, 399 of them were too conservative to even consider female equality. Only one of them wasn't... but he carried the day, along with a "female" who wasn't even actually female.
 
--- she chose to abandon her employer in order to preserve the romantic relationship
w/ an employee at the same workplace.

Consider Pel and Quark bolth being employees of the bar at the promenade.
The hierarchial employment scheme would have setup Quark to be in a supervisional rank,
due to his greater tenure, w/ that employer.

The delegation of operational tasks would have either forced Quark and Pel to either distance
themselves socially, or to spend a copious amount of time performing labourious tasks.
That would have most likely either disinclined them to spend much time together away from work,
or worse, caused a scheduling conflict where the combination of their leisurely activitys
during a non-working relationship or friendship, along with the time spent at work, meant that
they are spending almost all of their time together, eventually what could have also destroyed
their friendship.

Any romantic behavior among employees would've further caused the functional collapse of the
workplace
. Customers who may have observed the unprofessional romantic activitys, would have been
repelled from the bar, being that the employees were then observably unfocused on their normal
tasks. The employer's ability to serve the community would have then been derailed,
if that had been allowed to continue.

Furthermore, other regular patrons and staff at the bar, would most likely have eventually
made a joint request to Pel and Quark that their romantic involvement
be removed from the workplace. They would have asked them to decide if "is this is going to be
a professional relationship, a romantic relationship, or something else?"

And ultimately one of the two would have been forced to subside. In the event that their
romance was trivialized or undone, they may have been able to continue their simultaneous
employment at the bar "w/o it becoming too much of a distraction."

Impending might be the argument that the individuals could have just kept their romantic
involvement at a distance from the workplace, and ignored it while they were operating their
joint business venture and performing comanagerial relegative tasks. This might have been ideal
when an employer that had a more extremely rigid enforcement of platonic scheduling and
a protocol of deploying employees to fields where "the two are not going to be a distraction
to one another."

A resolvement of scheduling conflicts on the station in its entirety, including the promenade,
would allow those who prefer spending leisure time together,
to keep their work performance in order to avoid the conflation of leisure and work.

Regardless of their interactions being platonic or romantic, the leisure activitys at a workplace
would have been irrational, and the scheduling conflict of spending leisure time and work time
all with the same group of aliens is also irreparable nonetheless ...
 
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Oh, dunno. A bar being run by a sitcom couple would be likely to attract and entertain customers. I mean, observably they all do!

Timo Saloniemi
 
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