Maybe, maybe not. Most any SSH rank can get their judgment impaired or unreliable; it may depend on internal and external stressors. Gammas and probably Deltas are most prone with expected and bad consequences like this, but a Bravo/Alpha/Sigma impairment could mean catastrophic damage [like MHIverse when Special Task Force Unicorn gives MCB orders to 'Terminate immediately. No footprints.']
Gamma: frequent occurrence, damage low to severe; overall risk low to moderate. Scrubb landed in the "moderate risk" - can be managed, costs money, cover not severely breached. Personal consequences to him will be painful, I'm guessing.
I'm curious about what comes next. Will we see a contrasting character to highlight who Horace isn't? We learn who Odysseus is when his journey home is anything but simple.
I can deal with vampires, werewolves and the fae, but a competent HR manager who has extensive experience in the field for which she hires talent is simply too great a leap for my suspension of disbelief.
Oh, she's incompetent, alright. That's why she'll let him stay. And I'm also pretty sure we are just getting the gamma's opinion on her. When you think about it, that's pretty good. The sign at the door was what gave appropriate HR cringe.
He knows too much for them to just let him go, as i suspect they think he'll go off his rocker again and do something even stupider. They either need to kill him or shunt him to a lowly janitor position where someone can always watch him.
This is how HR talks to employees we want to keep and are confident won’t sue, usually Managers. Being blunt gets the message across, but makes employees more likely to sue and gives them ammunition for their lawsuit. Also, if we’re about to fire you, there’s no reason to talk to you beyond benefits explanations.
When you're firing someone, you want to keep things as positive and cordial as you can. No reason to chew their asses, there's no upside, if they improve because of it, it won't benefit the company, but probably a competitor. And there's a lot of downside.
Also, you don't want to waste your time while they defend themselves and expose yourself to a potentially annoying and awkward situation.
Let them go, come with some excuse like "it is no you, it is us, you're great" and finish the thing as soon as you can.
I am grateful for the software engineering profession as it was the one who raised me from poverty to a solid middle-class life.
But from time to time you face a colleague like that and then you start asking if the money is worth it:
https://notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-knowing
This is pure Gamma juice.
Its just enough to keep one hooked for the next.
Good serialization.
I am looking forward to the detail where he puts his fedora back in his head as he exits her office
If he were a gamma, wouldn't he have done stupid obsessive things like this before?
Though not undeserved, the sadist enjoyment of this gamma's suffering continues.
He is young and a new hire. Is MCI too cheap for a boot camp, or is our twerp about to meet it?
So good!
"If you shove one more Sensible Pencil into my delusion bubble, i wont be able to recover! And why does everyone keep calling HIM her boyfriend?!"
"Your judgment is impaired" is how they're spelling gamma in MCI, then.
Maybe, maybe not. Most any SSH rank can get their judgment impaired or unreliable; it may depend on internal and external stressors. Gammas and probably Deltas are most prone with expected and bad consequences like this, but a Bravo/Alpha/Sigma impairment could mean catastrophic damage [like MHIverse when Special Task Force Unicorn gives MCB orders to 'Terminate immediately. No footprints.']
Gamma: frequent occurrence, damage low to severe; overall risk low to moderate. Scrubb landed in the "moderate risk" - can be managed, costs money, cover not severely breached. Personal consequences to him will be painful, I'm guessing.
MCI must terminate Scrubb permanently, otherwise, it's a future of frivolous lawsuits and cyber harassment.
He should shut up and say no more than yes, no, my sincere apologies and thank you.
But if the main character was capable of doing that, he wouldn’t be here in the first place.
I'm curious about what comes next. Will we see a contrasting character to highlight who Horace isn't? We learn who Odysseus is when his journey home is anything but simple.
He's going to get assigned to a humiliating job, isn't he?
I can deal with vampires, werewolves and the fae, but a competent HR manager who has extensive experience in the field for which she hires talent is simply too great a leap for my suspension of disbelief.
Oh, she's incompetent, alright. That's why she'll let him stay. And I'm also pretty sure we are just getting the gamma's opinion on her. When you think about it, that's pretty good. The sign at the door was what gave appropriate HR cringe.
He knows too much for them to just let him go, as i suspect they think he'll go off his rocker again and do something even stupider. They either need to kill him or shunt him to a lowly janitor position where someone can always watch him.
What I suspect will happen is that they'll assign him to partner with an appropriately embarrassing boss, who can keep him in line, on awful missions.
I look forward to it with glee.
I guess it depends on if the SDL agrees that's the cruelest fate for him.
Idk why this one made me cry. Much love y'all.
If only all HR departments were like this in real life. We would all be so much better off.
This is how HR talks to employees we want to keep and are confident won’t sue, usually Managers. Being blunt gets the message across, but makes employees more likely to sue and gives them ammunition for their lawsuit. Also, if we’re about to fire you, there’s no reason to talk to you beyond benefits explanations.
When you're firing someone, you want to keep things as positive and cordial as you can. No reason to chew their asses, there's no upside, if they improve because of it, it won't benefit the company, but probably a competitor. And there's a lot of downside.
Also, you don't want to waste your time while they defend themselves and expose yourself to a potentially annoying and awkward situation.
Let them go, come with some excuse like "it is no you, it is us, you're great" and finish the thing as soon as you can.
I want to kill this guy so badly that I'm annoyed MCI hasn't done it already.
I personally enjoy watching him suffer and flounder about. It sets an example for the other monster hunters who would believe it’s okay to be a creep.