I woke up to the sounds of a shower going, I could hear Amy singing in the shower and let me tell you she's a pretty good singer. A little to cutesy sounding for me but she's singing some song from mars that I have no idea where it came from. Maybe from one of her Martian nanny's. I smile and decided to open on of her showers in a can. Ill pay her back later. Within a second, I'm clean and dry even my clothes are cleaner which is nice. I smile and put my coat and pants in my inventory which I found out I have when screwing around with the setting of my system seriously this thing is broken if only it allowed me to go past the human physical barrier that would be pretty cool, but I cant have everything without working for it.
"Amy hurries up we have to be at work in…...2 hours ago!" I say after checking my watch. She screeches.
"Oh crap." She runs out of the bathroom in nothing but a towel. And I smile as she's looking for her sweats to put on. I head to the door and put on my shoes.
"Looks like I got a bit distracted." She said coming out with her sweats on putting on her shoes.
"It's okay I'm pretty sure that the mission would go on well without either of us anyways and the professor can do his own Scutt work he just choses not to." with a smile we walk hand in hand to the tube that leads to the outside of planet express.
"Oh, by the way I wanted to give you this last night but we were both exhausted."
"What is I-" I was cut off by the feeling of her lips on mine I wrapped my arms around her and kissed her like I meant it we stayed there for two minutes and didn't even notice the line behind us until one homeless guy coughed "ahem" from behind us. We separated and it looked like Amy was a bit embarrassed I hugged her close and jumped into the vacuum to and we were off.
"Why aren't you more shame faced all those people were watching us kiss."
"They saw me kiss a 10/10 I'm more proud than embarrassed." I laugh.
We soon arrive to planet express and head in. everyone is already in the meeting hall.
"Sorry we're late peeps I woke up a bit late, and Amy took a three-hour shower."
"You didn't join her?" bender said and if he weren't a robot I'm sure he'd be smirking.
"No, I didn't join her. I'm a classy broad." I said with an easy smile while Amy face exploded in a blush. "Also don't tease her she's easily embarrassed." I laugh. And she throws her freakin shoe at me. I of course catch it with my peak human reflexes and now she's hopping around on one foot.
"Can I have that back the floor is cold." Amy asks
"No, mine now." I said holding the shoe like a trophy.
"I didn't realize you were that kind a guy fry." She said with a teasing grin.
"Just…just take your shoe back." I hand her the shoe and she takes in back and puts it back on. The nerve of her. I'm a degenerate not a sicko. Foot fetishes are beneath me. We both sit down.
"Well now that the lover quarrel is over lets actually get some work done." Hermes said sounding annoyed.
"So to reiterate for those that weren't here, planet express is going through a bit of a restructuring and there will soon be new crew and new positions you're all going to be expected to take on more responsibilities. Leela as the captain of planet expresses flag ship you will be responsible for ensuring all new captains are handling their ships responsibly and respectfully. Bender you will be responsible for handling all new robot hires. Make sure they're comfortable and working at peak efficiency. Fry you will be responsible for teaching all delivery boys the pre take off safety inspections and package handling etiquette. You will all receive a 30 dollar pay raise for taking on these responsibilities. Now as for scruffy, he will be responsible for leading the new team of engineers we're hiring to keep up maintenance for the new ships that the professor is having built since he apparently has an engineering degree." I look at scruffy at this he's leaning back in his chair with his feet on the table. An engineering degree…and he's a janitor. Wow he must have really struck out in life. Then again, only the top 10 percent of graduates can get a new career chip. The rest have to stick with the chips they were given when they turn 18. The only exceptions are government jobs like firefighters, police, and military. Luckily, I'll have my pick of career chips with all the classes I'm now taking. And business owners are a chip that anyone that owns the majority share of a LLC can have.
"And now for the new hires. Because of the increase in employee's planet express is now legally required to have a human resources representative. And because 1 third of them are robots at least one representative needs to be a robot. Please welcome Candy cash, and Bella."
In walks one woman with long blond hair, and a black hair scrunchy bunching a lock of her butt length blonde hair to the side, she was moderately attractive wearing a long blue dress coat with small black belts holding it together leaving a gap in the front. Underneath she's wearing dark blue tights, and pink shoes. She has a white band on her left wrist. She's pretty for sure. The other one is the don bot's daughter no need to describe her. I'm worried, will bender hook up with her and cause a problem? I look to bender and he looks like he doesn't even see her. Maybe he's smart enough not to cause problems with robot resources.
"I'm sorry but aren't you the don bot's daughter Ms. Bell why are you looking for work." Just because I don't want problems with H.R doesn't mean I'm going to let my base of operations become a mafia recruitment center.
"Oh. You know most people don't know I'm the don bot's daughter, but you seem more well informed than most. In truth I'm here because my father has disowned me because I wanted nothing to do with the mob life. Our relationship was already fraying because I wasn't a man and he wanted someone to be his heir, and very few of the mob guys would respect a woman. I needed a job and the job chip agency gave me robot resources! luckily planet express was hiring for robot resources. Usually no one but factories, who do extensive background checks, hire enough robots to need a robot resource agent."
I nod so she's not here to cause trouble. Ill still keep an eye on her. Candy goes to introduce herself.
"Well, I'm candy cash and I hope we can get along well in a safe and efficient workplace. If you ever need anything my door is always open, and everything we talk about behind the door of my office is, and will be kept, confidential." She says with a smile and takes a seat at the now cramped table. I sigh knowing I'm probably going to avoid those two for the most part aside from keeping an eye on them to see how they would use their onboarding package of 10,000 shares in shareholders meetings. Currently I'm the highest shareholder since zoidburg hasn't been issued a ridiculous amount of shares in place of toilet paper. Hermes assured me it would never happen in this world. And he also told me he would only give 10,000 shares to those with original roles like Leela the captain, me the delivery boy, bender the robot, scruffy the janitor and now the head of engineering, Hermes COO, the professor issued himself his own shares, which I'm pretty sure is illegal but whatever. But the point is that none of the new hires except for candy, and Bella are getting these shares. So, we won't have to file the paperwork to raise the cap again. And since planet express is a closed company no one can invest money for more shares until we go public. Which won't be for a while and I intend to keep the share limit low and never enough to outvote someone who got the onboarding package.
With a smile I welcome them both, and the meeting continues.
"Now people we're going to have a lot of non-planet express personnel using the breakroom so try not to get in their way as they expand the building and deliver new ships. I'm not going to be available as I'm negotiating new contracts for the business so if you have a problem with payroll realize that's not my job anymore and go to Candy or Bella. If your need any paperwork, licenses or such filed. Leave a message on my answering machine and I'll deal with it when I'm in office. Now let's move on to the mission today."
And the meeting went on today was all about a package delivery to Zuthorp 2 it's an arid vacation planet, and they ordered a bunch of mini drink umbrellas.
I tried to log into my portal and was surprised to realize it was actually already unlocked so I just did my college work on the way to and back from Zuthorp 2. Once we got home, I knew life was going to be a rut for a while.
-2-month time skip. –
It's been a while since we did any real adventures, but a lot of things have changed. We've officially hired crew for every new planet express ship which means 14 ships now have three people for each crew 42 new people. We now have 14 new employee lounges which is cool because ours is the only one with a tv. Leela, Bender, and I now have our own offices. Which we rarely spend time in because were either on a mission, or in the employee lounge, we all have answering machines like Hermes now so if there's a problem people can reach us that way. We check out our offices every hour on the hour to make sure we didn't miss a call, I've taught 14 new delivery boys the pre-launch checklists and how to repair the ship if something comes up, as well as package delivery etiquette which basically consisted of teaching them how to watch out for cultural and social differences. As well as reading body language to know if they're offending someone. I've also taught them how to man the torpedo station in simulated space combat. So far, I've received no complaints about my delivery boys and despite the fact that almost every ship has seen combat in the form of space pirates no ship has been truly damaged or lost. Of course, every other ship gets preplanned routes, and delivery is based on the contracts we have with various companies; the flag ship or the original planet express ship handles freelance package delivery. Bender on the other hand… well, he had the hardest job of making sure every robot was running at peak efficiency which meant he had to do a lot of bureaucratic work with Hermes to ensure planet express was provided enough alcohol on every ship to ensure they were well powered. He had to teach every robot how to man the gunnery station as well as ensure they all had the required strength to do their day-to-day tasks. It was embarrassing when we had to fire 3 robots for not have the required strength as its not something you can train its something they have to be built or born with. Luckily their pleas to human resources and by extension their lawyers fell on deaf ears because not having the pre-requisite attributes was actually a fire able offense for robots, soon they were replaced and bender had to test the 3 new robots before even teaching them everything else that was needed because he wasn't going to go through that nonsense again. Unfortunately, bender got 3 calls from irate customers because 1 robot in particular keep showing up to the delivery sober. Dude wasn't even enjoying the state that some robots actually like which is also a fire able offense. No, he just said he couldn't find time to drink. This ended up falling onto one of Leela's captains, because said captain was pawning his work of on the robot and interrupting his drinking breaks which all robots are required to have by law. He was fired shortly after and replaced. On poor Leela's end she never caught a break she had to teach 14 people how to run a ship, and a crew, 3 people despite having career chips to be a captain had no idea how to fly a ship. So, she chose to teach them instead of firing them I told her that was a mistake because she wasn't allowed to teach them and get them their licenses in the planet express ships so she had to spend some of her own money to rent a ship to teach them all in 3 days. In the end it worked out and Hermes reimbursed her the money that would have gone to finding new pilots, then tragedy struck, remember when I said we never lost of damaged a ship I wish that could be said about people. One of the people Leela taught to pilot died when in the middle of an attack a-grav was shut off in a power fluctuation. He was fine at first just floating but a-grav turned back on after the electrical disturbance was balanced out by the ships computer and he came down on his neck there was nothing that could be done for him. Two planet express ships answered the distress call the pirates tried to rabbit to ftl but they were chased down by the 2 ships and destroyed. one person survived in an Eva suit; he took a torpedo to the face. Leela took it pretty badly and we put extra safety measures in place for every ship after that. Leela took some time off and I trained the new captain from a checklist Leela made me. Since then, all pirate ships have been destroyed on sight by planet express ships. Dropping piracy in the local galaxy by 80% only the stupid tries it in this galaxy, where most of our contracts are in the first place. Mom owns most intergalactic contracts and she's not very keen on giving them up. When leela came back all the captain put together a party to welcome her back. She gets along really well with all of them, because they believe she cares about them, and for the most part she does, just not as much as the three she had trained, well two now.