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The lack of a "galley" (or mess hall, as Adam says) makes Dirtball kind of unusual, especially as a Jovian outpost. They have more interior space than they know what to do with, so every employee gets a huge fully furnished apartment and there's complete farming operations, but there's no cook staff. They just barely have enough people to grow and distribute produce.
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Anonymous asked: Adam, why do you have difficulty finding and keeping jobs in piloting?
Adam: It's because of bureaucracy bullshit. You know how it goes, you piss off the wrong people at the wrong time and then you're fucked forever. After leaving the North American Republic, I started training to get my aircraft piloting license in the Socialist Republic of Mars. I started dating this girl in my training group... but then she got licensed before me and promoted up to a useless pseudo-manager position, and was so up her own ass about it… After we broke up, she went on a powertrip and got me in trouble for not doing one of the stupid redundant safety checks that NO ONE in the team was doing, including her!! So, the SRM booted me from the program and barred me from getting a license there. Right now I’m trying to get into the Martian Free States piloting program, because they’ll ignore my SRM record. The MFS and the SRM hate each other, haha. But the MFS is allergic to giving anything government funding, so… I have to pay for it in full.
- SRM
- MFS
Anonymous asked: Adam, what made you decide to take this job?
Adam: ...Money? Why else would anyone work in this literal dump? I guess the apartments are pretty big, too. It’s way better boarding than any other spacer temp job I’ve done. Having to cook everything myself is so annoying, though… I miss mess halls.
Image: Adam holds up a vegetable from the produce box and says "More zucchini??"
Petra asked: Mel , you've known Talita for a long while. How well do you think she's handling her management position?
Mel: Sigh… it's so frustrating that she's trying to avoid taking responsibility for her temps. If she was just more confident, she'd have no problem controlling them! But I’m trying to let her learn to do it on her own… I don’t want to coddle her just because I used to be her foster parent.
Anonymous asked: Mel, are you excited to surprise Talita?
Mel: Hee hee hee! Oh, it's gonna be great! She’s needed this for a while, but you know how she is. You'll die waiting for her to ask you for help.
