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If anybody objects to taking these tests, he can say so, and I'll have his time made out and pay him off." "That's the same thing. A threat of dismissal is coercion, and if these men want to keep their jobs they'll have to take this test." "Well, that's stated more or less correctly," Melroy conceded. "Let's just put it that taking and passing this test is a condition of employment.
"If I may ask Mr. Melroy a question: I gather that these tests are given to all your employees. Why do you demand such an extraordinary level of intelligence from your employees, even common laborers?" "Extraordinary?" Melroy echoed. "If the standards established by those tests are extraordinary, then God help this country; we are becoming a race of morons! I'll leave that statement to Dr.
If he survived that, it's his bad luck," Melroy said grimly. "Last night, while Fred Hausinger was pulling the fissionables and radioactives out of the Number One breeder, he found a big nugget of Pu-239, about one-quarter CM. I don't know what was done with it, but I do know that Crandall had the maintenance gang repack that reactor, to keep my people from working on it.
Burris because of their legitimate union activities." "Who gave you that idea?" Melroy wanted to know. "Koffler and Burris?" "That's the complaint they made to me, and it's borne out by the facts," Crandall replied. "We have on record at least half a dozen complaints that Mr.
"'Obsession' will probably do. 'Phobia' would be more exact. I'm afraid of fools, and the chance that I have one working for me, here, affects me like having a cobra crawling around my bedroom in the dark. I want you to locate any who might be in a gang of new men I've had to hire, so that I can get rid of them." "And just how do you define the term 'fool', Mr. Melroy?" she asked.
"We'll have to, unless we can get Dr. Rives security-cleared." Melroy turned to her. "Were you ever security-cleared by any Government agency?" "Oh, yes. I was with Armed Forces Medical, Psychiatric Division, in Indonesia in '62 and '63, and I did some work with mental fatigue cases at Tonto Basin Research Establishment in '64." Melroy looked at her sharply. Keating whistled.
But these people are going to make trouble." "If they do, it'll be my trouble. I'm under contract to install this cybernetic system for you; you aren't responsible for my labor policy," Melroy replied. "Oh, have you had much to do with this man Crandall, yourself?" "Have I had !" Leighton sputtered for a moment.
"Harry Crandall was out here talking to them, and at noon the whole gang handed in their wrist-Geigers and dosimeters and cleared out their lockers. They say they aren't coming back till Burris and Koffler come back to work with them." "Then they aren't coming back, period," Melroy replied. "Crandall was to see me, a couple of hours ago.
There aren't enough other generators in this area to handle a hundredth of the demand." "And don't blame that on my alleged strike-breakers," Melroy warned. "They hadn't got security-cleared to enter the reactor area when this happened." "What do you think happened?" Cronnin asked. "One of the Doernberg-Giardanos let go?" "Yes. Your man Crandall.
Within the hour, Crandall arrived at Melroy's office. He was a young man; he gave Melroy the impression of having recently seen military service; probably in the Indonesian campaign of '62 and '63; he also seemed a little cocky and over-sure of himself. "Mr. Melroy, we're not going to stand for this," he began, as soon as he came into the room. Koffler and Mr.
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