345.33017 - Labor; early morning

[dontpokethat]

Hey, uh... I'm having some trouble walking, so I'm gonna be kind of late to work today, just... giving a heads-up. Someone else might have to do the morning feedings and get started on cleaning pens, but I should be in a little later.

[Guess who has suddenly found himself with hooves.]

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[dorkypantsuit]

Ginko.

[Repeating himself very slowly now.]

Take. The day. Off.

[dontpokethat]

I heard you the first time, and I don't need to.

[Good business strategies: Just fuckin argue openly with your boss. Just do it.]

[dorkypantsuit]

[ Ψ...]

It's really not open for debate right now.

[dontpokethat]

What's that supposed to mean? I can work, there's no reason I shouldn't.

[dorkypantsuit]

[Psi just laughs.]

I mean, no, there are actually a whole lot of reasons you shouldn't. Most of them involve the possibility of you injuring yourself when we're already shorthanded, but the rest of them sound a lot like "I'm your boss and you have to do what I say."

If you want to use reason as the basis for this particular argument what you need to find is a reason you should come. But there isn't one because as I've told you, I can do it.

So make sure I don't see you at the menagerie later today, okay?

[He says it so sweetly too.]

[dontpokethat]

...The reason I should come in is that it's my job. And I can do it just fine, I won't hurt myself.

[Aaaand that's all he's got. It came out sounding rather more like the protest of a pouting child than he'd like.]

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[osteothropy]

[From inside of Ginko's trailer because he's there now.]

Hey if you're lookin' for somethin' to do you could always give the triplets a bath like a pal. They've been smellin' like fish casserole since they ate that sea monster nightmare last stop.

[dontpokethat]

[WOW.]

I am not washing your dogs, that's your job.

[osteothropy]

[Grinning like a shithead.]

Work is work, my dude.

[dontpokethat]

Well, not quite. There's the work I do because it's my job and it's what I'm supposed to be doing, and there's the work you try to drop on me because you don't want to do it.

[dorkytracksuit]

Maybe you should take two days off. Do some thinking, get your head on straight.

[dontpokethat]

[what no]

My head's on perfectly straight already, thanks. I don't need two days off!

[dorkypantsuit]

Alright then. See you tomorrow!

[dontpokethat]

[A few seconds of angry grumbling, then Ginko apparently gives up and turns off his walkie-talkie for the time being. FINE.]