fandomhigh | Working With Jerks, Wednesday, May 11, 2016 [3rd period]

Tony and a large cup of coffee were perched on the edge of the desk at the front of the class. Because you could in no way teach without that. "Hello, and welcome to class. This is Working with Jerks--" excuse him while he side eyed his teaching partner a little for that title. "And I'm Tony Stark."

A beat.

"If you know who I am, it's admittedly a little funny." The things that happen when you garner a reputation.

"I meant in general," Steve said, cheeks going a little pink. "Everyone is going to work with someone who's a little difficult at some point in their lives. Class projects, shift work, military training...it happens." He smiled. "I'm Steve Rogers, by the way."

"Uh huh," Tony said, taking a pointed sip of his coffee. "College is the worst for that. You'll end up doing all the work in a group of slackers and contemplate murder a few times before you graduate."

Screw. Group. Projects. Seriously.

"But it's not all terrible! Working as a group also allows you to achieve things you can't manage on your own." Because you guys lucked out on getting the more earnest version of Tony Stark, kids.

Steve nodded, equally earnest. "Working as a team, when everyone's individual strengths become more important than their flaws is something everyone should experience at least once, but it does mean that you need to learn to...well...suck it up and deal with annoyances."

Tony put the coffee to the side and clapped his hands together. "Today we'll be getting to know who you are and seeing how well you handle yourself when your day is thrown off."

"It'll be fun." Steve was so optimistic.

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Kaylin had literally no idea what 90% of this stuff was. So she was pushing buttons and turning things randomly, jumping back when she spilled coffee stuff everywhere.

"Ooops."

Why did they get so many kids without a clue? Why?

That would be why the phone was now ringing. And if this ended up like the kid before her...

This... did not look like the pocket phone thing she had, but in some of the movie things there were phones like this, so Kaylin picked it up. Okay, so she wasn't holding it right, but whatever.

"Um... Hello?"

Oh thank god, she figured it out.

"Hi, this is Tony," he said. "I won't be coming in today because Venus is in retrograde."

"Who is in where?"

Gods, and she'd thought some of her other classes were strange.

"And what does that have to do with you coming in or not?"

"It's a zodiac thing." He thought? Look, he didn't really know. "So, you can handle opening, right?"

And there was the crowd of impatient customers showing up for her to make them complicated lattes.

Kaylin turned to the crowd. "Everyone shut the hells up or I'll make you sorry your mothers ever gave birth to you!" she roared at the top of her lungs.

Which was actually pretty damned loud.

"Sorry," she said, turning back to the phone conversation. "Opening what?"

Excuse Tony while he was a little impressed by that one.

"That's... certainly one way to handle this situation."

"People," she said, rolling her eyes. "If you don't keep them in line they'll run all over you."

She pointed a stern finger at a particularly annoying person who was still trying to get her attention. "Can't you see I'm on the phone thing? Back off! Besides, veetus is in a big parade and I have it on good authority that that means nothing is going to get made here today since I don't have a clue what anything does. You might as well go home. Well? GO!"

Kaylin sighed as the customers stampeded out. "Did you still want me to open something? Because I'm not sure how anything works here."

"You're supposed to make coffee for them," Tony manage between fits of laughter. "That's what you do as a barista."

While the programmed patrons mostly seemed confused. He was going to have to go through so many potential scenarios for the next time.

Right.

"I can't make coffee!" Kaylin said, looking completely shocked. "I barely manage to get the moneys right to buy one on occasion! And even then I have to keep telling them, 'just the big one, just plain coffee!' while they list off crazy things I apparently could be having!"

She knocked over one of the big whatever-it-was-es as she gestured, then winced. "Maybe I better go see this veetus myself before I wreck the whole place. Can I tag along when you go?"

Working With Jerks, Wednesday, May 11, 2016 [3rd period]

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