Working With Jerks, Wednesday, June 1, 2016 [3rd period]

[imafuturist]

"The best part of being a team is when everyone is moving in the same direction," Steve said, "but sometimes life happens and your heavy hitter has suddenly been called back to his home planet, or a coworker...needs to go to a yoga retreat for anger issues...and the invasion isn't just gonna wait for you to have everything in place."

Tony tilted his head to the side, letting those totally normal examples sink in. "Hulk doing yoga is going to haunt my nightmares," he muttered before continuing on. "You can't control the actions of people around you, only how you react to them. Sometimes this involves shouldering more of the workload. Sometimes it means having to find a replacement on short notice."

"And while it's hugely tempting to complain about the new reality," Steve said earnestly, "it's not really going to help anything."

Steve stiff-upper-lipped until it just about killed him.

It was so terribly 40's of him. And in no way would it end in backflipping away from governmental regulations. Nope.

"But that doesn't mean you kids can't complain about it," Tony added quickly. "It's cathartic, I hear. In fact, we'd love to see how you react to such a scenario."

"Well, not one with Dr. Banner going to yoga," Steve said. "Something slightly more relate-able." Then he looked blankly at Tony because all of his scenarios involved calling in sick due to living in tenement housing in the 1930s with terrible lungs and a bad heart.

Yeah, that was slightly less helpful for some of the kids. But hey, Tony was almost an expert on hilariously bad employees. "Such as a coworker with an essential job quitting without notice and leaving their workload for someone else."

He meant you guys, kids.

Modern Shakespeare

[glacial_queen]

"So, this was one of the island's weird weekends," Karla announced. "Which means it might have been your first bout of dealing with Fandom's ideas of whimsy. That can always take a few days to shake off. Also, it was a weekend for the vast majority of the island's inhabitants. So rather than watching another movie and analyzing it, we'll be watching a documentary about why Shakespeare's works endure to this day. The internet went mad over the newest documentary by historian Philomena Cunk when she took on Shakespeare and I finally managed to track down a copy that wasn't region-locked. It's only a half an hour, so I figured we'd spend a little time after that discussing some of what she covered and how that context will help your understanding of future plays and then I'll let you go early."

Karla was really going to regret not having the chance to watch this first.