This week with Arlene and Jeff:
...Jeff stared at his young wives. "Okay, it doesn't take a genius to tell that both of you are stressed. What gives? Maybe I should have been there for the meeting…"
Arlene broke in to say, "If I'm to lead the unit officially, then I'm going to have to do it on my own, or they'll never respect me."
"So, what happened?"
"Oh, nothing, really. Bill was just being courteous, but Worthington seems to think that Ann and I have won in our interceptor because we're enhanced. Since he was so obnoxious, I chose to have the enhancement done in alphabetical order - which means that he will be last. It's trivial because he will be only one day later than the first four people."
She went on to describe how she had set the enhancements up.
"Do you ever use alphabetical order while training?"
"Not always. It depends on what's going on, but I have several times."
"Then I don't see how he has a gripe. At worst, he will be one day later than some of the others, and there will be another person that will be enhanced at the same time. Even then, he and the other person will only be done after training instead of before. Somebody has to be last. He might as well learn that pissing off the boss will have repercussions. Hell, you would think that as long as he has been a fighter pilot, he would know that."
"He probably got away with it in his fighter group because he is so darn good, but he isn't a team player, and what we're doing takes teamwork. Without Ann, I would suck at this. And unless I miss my guess, he's going to be a glory hound when we meet the Aliens," Arlene finished with a frown...
Have a goodun;
Roust