Rookiehood 101, Tuesday, Period 4

[raspberryturk]

"Yo, Rookies!" Reno took this opportunity to stick his tongue out as his students, yes. Don't knock it. Just smile and nod. "Today, we're gonna talk about a subject that's real near and dear to my heart. Downtime, yo."

Reno spoke only of the most important things, yes.

"Now, I dunno where you're all gonna go once you get outta this school. I don't know if you're going to be workin' some McJob at some cheap Mooby's ripoff where every now and again you gotta deal with special charity events and annoying clowns and junk, or if you're gonna go and take a runnin' leap into somethin' big and rough and dirty. Maybe a military job. Maybe politics." A small smirk at that. People were welcome to try to convince him that politics weren't dirty. He'd laugh at them and then offer to introduce them to his former boss. "Fact is, wherever you go, unless you're freakishly lucky, the work ain't gonna always be easy. You're gonna learn to appreciate the downtime that you get, or you're gonna break yourself by buryin' yourself in too deep all the time, yo."

Oh, he was so pointedly not looking at Elena right now.

"This kinda goes hand-in-hand with last week's class, zoto. It's a matter of knowin' your limits, or bein' able to listen to your superiors if they go ahead and tell you where they are, yo. So I'm gonna give you all a few scenarios to work with, and I want you to tell me what it is you'd do under those circumstances."

[OCD up! Open!]

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Scenario Two: Vacation? Definitely Cut Short Now

[raspberryturk]

Flipside. You're one of the two senior employees whose Rookie has just taken off to do the job that they tried to pull you back from your vacation for. Fine, your Rookie's a big kid, they can handle themselves, right? ... Nope, wrong. You get word a little later that they've gone and gotten themselves kidnapped by your target, after lecturing you about how unprofessional you are.

So. Do you run off to save their ass? To what lengths do you go to get your Rookie back, if you do? And then, how many years is it going to take for them to be able to live it down?

(Hint, Elena never will.)

Re: Scenario Two: Vacation? Definitely Cut Short Now

[awakestheghosts]

"If it's m-my Rookie that has gotten into t-trouble, then what happens to t-them is my responsibility," Chloe finally said. "I would go off to s-save t-them and do whatever I felt that I had to do in order to get my Rookie back s-safely." She paused. "T-then I would p-probably kick their ass for running off and getting themselves into s-such a s-situation in the first place.

It was probably a really funny mental image to imagine Chloe beating up anybody.

Re: Scenario Two: Vacation? Definitely Cut Short Now

[gorka-wolf.livejournal.com]

Makita was just going to take a moment to feel smug. She had a rookie and he followed her orders just fine. Mostly because Dushka had a horrible crush on her, but still. He was a good kid.

"Is it 'saving' them if they're grounded to fetch-and-carry work for the next lifetime?" she asked. "And no, they never live it down."

Re: Scenario Two: Vacation? Definitely Cut Short Now

[heromaniac]

Ugh. Momoko sighed. She would totally do this if the food was good enough or the right tv show was on never let a junior go by themselves!

But if it did ever happen that a junior of hers got kidnapped like that? She'd totally go rescue them - they were her responsibility to take care of and train, right?

She'd go find them and lecture them and then make them apologize and ask for her help, and then rescue them. And they'd totally be buying her snacks forever later.

Re: Scenario Two: Vacation? Definitely Cut Short Now

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

"Only if I get to lecture them about how weak they are," Elena sighed. "Preferably while they're still tied up, that'll make my point stick."

Pffft. She wasn't bitter.

Re: Scenario Two: Vacation? Definitely Cut Short Now

[whateverknight.livejournal.com]

Another stupid question.

"The well-being of your teammates is second only to the mission objective," Squall pointed out. "And it's unprofessional to ignore the mission, but heartless not to rescue a teammate."