#employment agent

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"FIRST CONVICTION UNDER THE NEW ACT," Toronto Star. June 2, 1913. Page 2. ---- J. L. Speedy Got an Order to Supply a Gang of Italians. --- DEAL FELL THROUGH ---- Sudbury, June 2 - G. L. Sheedy, an employment agent of North Bay, was convicted, but released on suspended sentence Saturday for an infraction of the recent Order-in-Council relating to the protection of immigrants. This is said to be the first case under the new Act.

On May 21 Sheedy got a telephone (not a written) order from Foley Bros. and the Northern Construction Company, Sudbury, to bring in a gang of some thirty Italians. Out of a gang of twenty-eight seven or eight were boys between seventeen and twenty years, sons of fathers in the gang. At Sudbury Foley Bros, and the Northern Construction Co. rejected the minors, but were willing to hire the adults. The gang, however, refused to split, and the deal was off. When the gang applied to Sheedy for their baggage checks, he refused to give them up unless he was reimbursed for the fares of the party from North Bay to Sudbury. The men were stranded.

[brainrotcharacters]

TW: Wolverine Badonkas

I laughed rewatching because like

[dokidokitsuna]

game over

…Ever since I drew this comic, I think I’ve accepted ‘Mr. Grizz eats people’ as a personal headcanon, to the point where I sometimes forget that he does not actually do that. ^^; But who cares; it’s fun for me to think about~

[dannyphannypack]

i know we all love our perfectly evil Ghost Investigation Ward, but i was rewatching the second Men in Black movie with my dad a while ago and I couldn’t help but feel like an AU in which the Guys in White’s motivations and morality more closely resembled their namesake could be really interesting … i’d love to see a fic in which danny works alongside the ghost police/border patrol/detective squad instead of being kidnapped and tortured by them

[wogot3]

part 1 cringe made way before this account is made (warning suggestive)

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[defiledtomb]

waking up feeling like a cinder block & having two meetings & at the end of those get a call to find out that I didn't get the apartment because I had to have been employed for 27 more days than I currently have been. I need to put myself into the washing machine on the carpet cycle. forever. goodbye.

[antipathy-arsonist]

drawins of cod and my sona that i finally decided to draw

[swapped-employment-au]

Thinking about how in canon during the first game, Phoenix collects so many weird and dangerous things from their missions

And how after years of being an agent, then becoming a handler, they would probably just have. The weirdest shit lying around in their office, a grenade somewhere in their desk like how someone would lose their pen

[doctor-badadvice]

You know, I often make fun of Bishop, as one does. I call him a man of strong fashion opinions, a nerd and a wretched little gremlin. It’s all part of the process and it’s necessary when you end up liking an idiot of his caliber.

I’ve talked about his personality before. Yes, it’s very black and white (and red) under many aspects. I made a whole post about how that affects his outfits throughout the show.

Though when it comes to relationships, it isn't all so straightforward. Bishop has obviously invested all his charisma points in intimidation. This definitely helps him work as a villain, but his short temper and ingrained need to feel in control of the situation often get in the way of his objective.

Having to deal with people isn’t easy for him. Almost impossible, even. He can spit some raw lines but it also took some real effort to stop himself from strangling the president, which may not be the best course of action, you know?

The only situations in which we see him succeed to some extent are whatever concerns his organization since there is standardization. Times change and so do people. Keeping up with new costumes over the decades is time consuming but military practices? Those rarely change.

Bishop is obviously a good leader. His men execute his orders without questioning and with the highest professionalism, despite the occasional threat of being subjected to unspeakable experiments in case of failure. He also historically enjoyed the respect of at least one president, where again he just has to act like a good agent to get what he wants. Yes, the fake invasion counts in this regard since it proved to the president just what a good investment EPF was.

He even keeps Baxter in line for the most part since they have a very clear deal they both surprisingly stick to (though Baxter has a major hand in this since he knows what’s the amount of snark he can afford on the workplace).

Anything else is a disaster. Romance would be a tragedy from the very first moment. Friendship? We know how that went. Becoming a good person?

Yes, about that.

Bishop’s presidential outfit is extremely accurate. He’s not the man he once was. He has changed his methods and he sees aliens as people he can negotiate with and manipulate when fit. His work has fundamentally changed, as in he at least tries to create something which not only Earth will benefit from.

But he also has a whole room dedicated to spying on everyone through satellites and he personally leads the rescue mission at the Moonbase. The agent never really left, he just comes out whenever Earth is directly threatened.

Do I think that Bishop is still evil in FF then? Not quite.

Having done my fair share of writing for this nerd, I'd say it's somewhere in the middle. Specifically it's a mix of an opportunistic person seeing the chance for a different approach and most importantly, accepting that's actually possible, and a character who was born in part as a critique to real life events that were happening at the time of the show.

At the time of FF, the bigger picture kind of guy has started down a path of good but he still only relatively cares about other people. The public is obviously up there on the list since he has a public image to curate now. Aliens are more or less people. Turtles and random rich teenagers can pick fights with evil (very stupid) shapeshifting aliens if they can make themselves useful. Baxter deserves a second chance despite the little dissection prank he tried to pull.

Still, I can't say it's all Bishop's fault because when you think about it, his two most formative life experiences were both very traumatic events. The alien abducting him right after he got wounded on the battlefield set him off on a path of paranoia and blind revenge. The lab experiment that almost killed both him and Baxter and a symbolic act of kindness diverted him on a more open-minded path, even if the paranoia is still very much there.

Add that Bishop spent like 65% of his life under the military and it's no wonder even when he's genuinely making an effort, he still comes off as manipulative.

Head of State specifically deserves a whole analysis of its own that I might just do at some point because it's a fun episode. But in brief, I think Bishop, in his heavily skewed perception, genuinely considers Baxter as an old friend. He feels remorse for leaving him to die and he actually wants to make up for it.

But again, agent and president are still the same person, even if they may be one clone away from each other. Bishop both resents Baxter for chasing him and the dissection thing (you bet that brought a lot of trauma back. I wouldn't be surprised if people were left wondering what could have possibly prompted the president to take a short period of rest for the first time since ever), and cherishes that the scientist is still alive.

He's just not the best at showing it. But what can you do. Even the most peaceful person will be a bit messed up after living for so long. Bishop has been through really traumatic stuff and definitely wasn't encouraged to be anything but an efficient sadistic bastard for a good while. Even when relearning how to behave around people, he couldn't exactly explain what he has been through so at best, Bishop had to sit on his own and design new procedures like “smile, bring a gift, write a nice speech about friendship and respect”, or “introduce a problem and make it so the one in front of you will suggest the solution you want while thinking they came up with it to ensure they will care”. Or even, “traumatized people need reassurance and physical comfort. I guess I'll have to pet the talking brain and offer him a job”.

If anything, 2105 might be a bit too early. Bishop is still consolidating the PGA, there's no way to get him to work on himself some more.

Perhaps, in a better timeline, FF would have received a second season with a real seasonal arc all about redemption. There's a certain other set of clones who could have benefited from it as well.

[djsangos]

im not unemployed but im self employed and thats basically the same thing

[just-ur-average-egg]

some doodles I did on my friends drawing tablet :o3

[ganja-hq]

The problem is the only three career paths I can imagine myself taking are silversmithing, taking care of elderly cats or singing in a hotel lounge

[that-gay-jedi]

Today a trainee working the same position as me transferred a call back into the pool because they didn't know how to do what the client was asking, the call came to me, it was a relatively easy/routine task for a more experienced agent so I finished it off.

Later in my shift my manager told me "put on your superhero cape because you just saved somebody's job", turns out the mistake the trainee had made before transferring would have been very illegal had it remained and by re doing it correctly a breach of national regulations was prevented.

Working in banking is fuckin scary.

[yngai]

i hope RE4R separate ways starts with ada sipping a mojito on the beach as she's rudely interrupted by an organization liaison who offers her the spain operation & she takes off her sunglasses, frowns & downs the rest of her drink, just as a fun contrast to leon's little edgy monologue about his really bad time under military service

[wogot3]

cor.

[gideonisms]

it's not bleed out BUT i do sing bones don't rust to myself literally every morning when i'm cycling to work

That song is SO important vital groundbreaking etc. in fact that whole album rocks but you're right it's probably not the album that will really make you want to break out the communist manifesto