text | un: rjlupin

[xxxxx]

A few of us have been talking and we're already tired of being broke, so we're wondering what everyone hopes to do here job-wise, what you did before, and how you go about explaining it to the locals if they want to know about your previous floor-sweeping or shelf-stocking experience before allowing you to sweep any floors or stock any shelves. Especially if your job back home was a little more complicated than that.

And have any of them asked any of you for references? Do they actually check them?

Does anybody have any experience with making up false references wholecloth? Can we begin acting as one another’s references?--which is a terribly trust based suggestion, we realise, and so the following question,

Should we design a character test for the sake of honest false reference corroboration? (‘We’ is the general ‘we’ not the ‘we’ asking these questions.) Is there anyone here who is not a reliable hard worker that the rest of us should be sure not to refer for anything?

Before anyone feels the need to point out that unreliable lazy workers will lie: yes, thank you, please see similar discussions following the questions about murder.

[ For the record, this is the product of a phone and its tiny keyboard being passed around among several different curious people. Remus just drew the short straw, because there is no justice in any world, and has to post it. Also, threadjacking super encouraged if you feel the urge. ]

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meanwhile, back on the roof

[barreling]

[ Wynonna's phone pings. ]

Aww, you took out my best lines. "Complicated?" What, were you afraid this would turn into another murder post? Because just for the record, killing demons does not count as murder.

text | un: BishopRunout

[poolhall_killer]

My line of work back home was more complicated than anything listed here. Referrals relied on word-of-mouth, but even those were kept under the table.

I don't believe falsifying credentials and reliability is the way, but I understand why it would be considered, given our situation.

text | un: wynonna

[barreling]

so you're just going to put assassin on your resume and hope for the best? let me know how that works out

text | un: scarlet

[yourhatred]

Has anyone considered starting their own business?

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[poolhall_killer]

[He's a bit confused by the different username answering him, but he continues the conversation anyway.]

Former assassin, thank you.

Besides, I've never been a good liar.

[barreling]

seriously? how does that work? anybody asks you just tell them you're a hitman?

[poolhall_killer]

Until recently, we've been careful enough to stay in the shadows. There's been no need to answer such a question.

That all changed before I arrived here, but it's a story for another time.

[barreling]

so are you going to keep being an assassin here or are you hoping those are what social workers like to call marketable job skills

[xxxxx]

[ Remus is too tired, sore, tipsy, and secretive to start any Well, As A Dark Creature wizard justice debates. Besides, most of the demons he knows are basically animals. He tips his phone at her instead. ]

That's a debate you can start under your own name.

[xxxxx]

I haven't, but I can't speak for anyone else. Have you?

[barreling]

[ Wynonna scoffs at this. She is never too tipsy for that. Probably. Certainly not yet. ]

Where's the debate? They're literally already dead. Boom, I win.

[poolhall_killer]

I have no intention of returning to that path, so it appears I might have to start fresh.

I suppose I will see if I possess these marketable skills.

[barreling]

so what are you going to do instead?

text, un: cptapex

[stabilis]

Bounty hunting. Kind of, but much cooler. And I happen to have a real live and very reliable reference for it, so you're on your own for the rest of your questions.

[ .... maybe. ]

Isn't a character test to find liars more like the opposite of a character test?

text, un: wynonna

[barreling]

Way to gloat about your reference, is your world the one without sharing = caring?

and maybe but we are looking for character, just not good character. but not totally bad either. like medium character.

[yourhatred]

I have not. I can't say I'm much of an entrepreneur, but I'm sure there are those among us who are.

[doggo]

[Grindylows, kappas, kelpies. Sirius doesn't know any of them personally. He's still paying attention, in case she starts tipping into a category he does know more personally, e.g., the werewolf sat somewhere vaguely between the two of them.

He takes another drink. And, instead, dryly:]

I can see why you're employed as a demon-killer, if those were your best lines.

[barreling]

Hey pal, it's not like you got put in prison for cutting anyone with your razor sharp wit, is it?

[stabilis]

Fair to middling character. Got it.

And I could share my reference, but she might not have very nice things to say about a bunch of randoms. No offense. That said, her character might be middling enough for her to vouch for one or two of you as long as you promise not to commit any murder on the job.

Unless murder's in the job description, in which case it should at least be satisfactory murder. You know,
'exceeds expectations' material.

[barreling]

please, I always exceed expectations

[ ...by making sure the bar's so low it's practically underground, but job interview lesson #1 is not mentioning things like that ]

what kind of job are you planning to use your fair to middling reference to get? bounty hunter's got to be pretty universal, right?

[stabilis]

Promises, promises.

[ It's a solid tactic, tho. ]

That's the idea. Although a straight up 'bounty hunter' is a little gauche. I'm a Killjoy, I like to operate with a bit more finesse. What about you? Let me guess, NOT sweeping floors and stocking shelves?

[barreling]

A killjoy, that's seriously your title? Do you specialize in rounding up people who are too fun at parties because if so I'm going to have to back away slowly

I've done my time in retail hell, but bounty hunter of sorts is actually pretty close lately

text | un: l.rallik

[insurgent]

[ using a different network ID for this conversation for... obvious reasons... ]

i have experience

[ how informative. ]

text | un: s.black

[doggo]

Congratulations on your experience
Have anything useful to contribute?

[doggo]

[excuse what]

Don't talk about what you don't know about.