An intriguing development

Mosquito is definitely used to getting her own way. Understandable, since in the time she's worked at Tartarus she's gotten exactly what she wanted probably 90% of the time. Things she doesn't get initially she pouts over until someone gives in.

Not this time, though.

She wanted to pass a responsibility over to Hickey. When she asked Mineola, though, she was told she needed to ask Spoof who is her direct supervisor. In the past six months Mosquito has spoken directly to Spoof maybe twice. In this case she refuses to do it. Mineola, surprisingly, will not give in. The only way Mosquito can pass off this task is if she asks Spoof. She has complained to everyone who will listen about this fact, even cried about it.

We are interested to see how this one plays out in the long run.

let the battle of wills begin

Totally fair

Maybe we're crazy but we've always thought that everyone in Tartarus should have to abide by the same rules. Like time cards. We used to get a few days grace to hand in our time cards. Lately Mineola has gotten really strict about them. If you don't hand them in the day they are due, you don't get paid. Period. Awfully strict, we thought, but so long as everyone follows the same rule it's fair.

You can see where this is going, right?

Zebra had to go home early one week. His kid was sick and no one else was available to pick the kid up. In the chaos, he forgot to hand in his time card. He, then, did not get paid.

Fast forward a week. Mosquito forgot to hand in her time card. No good reason, just forgot to fill it out. Mineola and Shoes filled one out for her so she wouldn't miss a paycheck.

Let's look at it financially. Mosquito shares living expenses with her boyfriend who has a good job. Plus her parents still pay for half her expenses. Zebra is a single parent with small children. He must pay child care and alimony. Which of these people can't really afford a delayed or missed paycheck? 

And they claim there's no favoritism at Tartarus.

 

A group effort

We're not sure who's to blame with this one. 

Is it Hickey, unable to absorb even the simplest of instructions, no matter how many times she hears them?

Is it Opie, how shouldn't be teaching anyone anything since he does everything in the dumbest way possible?

Is it Mineola and Shoes for letting Opie take charge of teaching Hickey as skill she clearly wasn't ready for?

It's hard to say. All we know is Opie was teaching Hickey how to do inventory using a laptop. They spent three hours working on four sets of shelves. After that time, they claimed to be done. When Spoof checked the inventory, nothing had been recorded. Opie blamed the internet, saying it "doesn't work in the afternoon". 

 

Do you hate us right now?

We know. We know. We dropped the Comfort Inn bomb and then went back to business as usual. Forgive us. We're still processing the news. Here's what we know as of right now:

1. Mineola is once again "temporarily" in charge.

2. Everyone seems determined to act as if Comfort Inn never existed. We are being urged to revert everything (policy and physical arrangement) back to how the Hutt had it as quickly as possible.
 
3. As a continuation of that, we're never going to be told anything more about what happened with Comfort Inn. Our subtle, and not so subtle, inquiries have been entirely ignored.

4. No one is overly concerned with proper procedure or even legalities. Shoes has been taking home things that Comfort Inn purchased for Tartarus out of our operating budget. This is, apparently, not a problem.

5. Our board won't be discussing starting our new director search until summer. When we are busy. Like last time. So we're looking at no less than 4-6 months without appropriate leadership. Just an interim director who works a few partial days and an assistant director who refuses to do essential parts of the job.

 

Speck is not impressed

We have two complaints about Tartarus today, both of them about Mineola.

1. Mineola insists that Speck smile all the time. Only Speck. Mineola herself spends much of her day scowling. The constant smiling makes Speck look like a lunatic.

2. When Speck completed a requested task today, Mineola responded with "good job' in the same tone which one uses with a puppy that has successfully piddled outside.