>"As a matter of fact I have. I have excised the deadwood in Ninth Fleet. Those that are in starship command positions are well trained, motivated, and enthuastic captains. I have tightened my supply lines so that the amount of materials that are lost or misapproperiated is less than 10% the fleet allowed limit...." Kettering answered as he was cut off. > > "That's what you call it. You just transfered your bad apples to others to deal with. You fixed nothing, just made it other people's problem." yelled another officer that Kitanys recognized as the Adjudent for the Second Fleet.
She glared at the officer. "Therrre will be no disrrrespect in this rrroom!" she barked. "We arrre Starrrfleet officerrrs. If we cannot act like it, we can't expect otherrrs to do so eitherrr." (resp?) "What to do with the deadwood is a prrroblem we all face," she said, addressing the crowd. We can't forrrce people out of the fleet just because they arrren't good worrrkerrs, but we don't want them in ourrr commands. Shifting them to otherrr commands only rrredistrributes the overrrall prrroblem. It's something I'm facing as well, and I'll bet everrry otherrr command that wants to imprrrove has the same issue. At SpecOps, we'rrre worrrking on developing intensive trrraining courrrses designed to motivate and rrre-enerrgize those that have potential, but just got lazy orrr apathetic. But therrre's still a larrrge perrrcent that won't rrrespond to these methods. I'm worrrking with a defense budget analyst and accounting staff to see how many we can grrrant earrrly rrretirrement to. If anyone else has a suggestion as to what to do with the ones we can't pay forrr orrr who don't qualify forrr earrrly rrretirrement, I think everrryone herrre would like to hearrr it." She wanted Kettering on her side, and she was offering him a chance to take a step closer. It was a very public way to form an alliance, but with this group, it might be the only way. They would mistrust secret meetings and sudden agreements. But it wasn't easy - she was concetrating hard on keeping her tail still. (resp?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner! --Lynda Montgomery
