The Shit Squad had been fairly quiet. Therod thought the name for her group of mercs might be driving away customers, despite her liking the idea of any shitty job that comes along, she felt maybe it was a touch to on the nose. Carut assured her it was the recent execution of clients that had caused the downturn in business. Which seemed unfair to Therod since they had of course wronged her group and they should be allowed to carry out their justice. That this stance would affect her business upset her. It didn't upset Rolando or Rem as both had in their own ways screwed off to doing nothing. She was shocked at the lack of effort both men put in to being better at their jobs.
"Are you two idiots going to stand around all day?" Rem was currently showing Rolando how to lasso something, this seemed like the stupidest skill to learn, especially for someone who could shift to a target, but this was apparently how the two of them had seen fit to spend their day.
"I'm learning something boss, you said learn."
"Yeah." Therod felt like a mother to two insolent children.
"Learn something useful, like Carut could show you electronic stuff, or I could show you some close quarters techniques, learning how to rope something is about the worst use of your time." Not that Therod wanted to show either of the men anything, her attempts in the past had been a colossal failure due to their lack of coordination and unwillingness to learn. In a way she felt cursed with both as far as mercenary work went, they were not suited for every day tasks.
"This is useful." They said it in unison and she almost got a head ache and left them to the task returning to Carut in their ops office.
"Having a problem with the boys."
"Idiots Carut, they are idiots, at best they are specialists, and I have to use them for front line work, tell me please someone has sent an application or something."
"I could tell you that, it wouldn't be true, but I can tell you that."
"You really know how to cushion the blow old man."
"I did have one person make an application, but I turned it down."
"What why? They can't be worse than those idiots out there?"
"She seemed unstable."
"I can work with unstable!"
"Ok, let me get that app again, but remember I warned you." Therod had the address of the applicant already downloaded and she was out the door before "warned you" came out of Carut's lips.
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