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"This union's going to bawl like a branded calf about it," he predicted. "And if any of the dear sirs and brothers get washed out " That sentence didn't need to be completed, either. "We have a right," Melroy said, "to discharge any worker who is, quote, of unsound mind, deficient mentality or emotional instability, unquote. It says so right in our union contract, in nice big print."
And nobody, outside the Department of Defense, knew how much radar and counter-rocket and fighter protection the place had, but the air-defense zone extended from Boston to Philadelphia and as far inland as Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The Long Island Nuclear Power Plant, Melroy thought, had all the invulnerability of Achilles and no more.
The woman I was speaking of has an I.Q. well inside the meaning of normal intelligence. She just doesn't use it." "Sure." Melroy got a thick folder out of his desk and handed it across. "Heydenreich thought of that, too. He got this up for me, about five years ago. The intelligence test is based on the new French Sûreté test for mentally deficient criminals.
Fields and Cronnin exchanged glances: Cronnin nodded to Fields and the latter rose. The two employees in question, he stated, had been the victims of discrimination and persecution because of union activities. Koffler was the union shop-steward for the men employed by the Melroy Engineering Corporation, and Burris had been active in bringing complaints about unfair employment practices.
"I have twelve more tests completed," she reported. "Only one washout." Melroy laughed. "Doctor, they're all washed out," he told her. "It seems there was an additional test, and they all flunked it. Evinced willingness to follow unwise leadership and allow themselves to be talked into improper courses of action.
I talked to Fred Hausinger, the maintenance boss; he doesn't like it, either." "Well, I'm no nuclear physicist," Melroy disclaimed, "but all that alpha stuff looks like a big chunk of Pu-239 left inside. What's Fred doing about it?" "Oh, poking around inside the reactor with telemetered scanners and remote-control equipment. When I left, he had a gang pulling out graphite blocks with RC-tongs.
"Well, wasn't that to be expected?" Melroy asked. "If you'd seen the act those two put on " "They're both inherently stupid, infantile, and deficient in reasoning ability and judgment," Doris said. "Koffler is a typical adolescent problem-child show-off type, and Burris is an almost perfect twelve-year-old schoolyard bully. They both have inferiority complexes long enough to step on.
That was a possibility which always lurked in the back of his mind, and lately it had been giving him surrealistic nightmares. "Mr. Melroy!" the box on the desk in front of him said suddenly, in a feminine voice. "Mr. Melroy, Dr. Rives is here." Melroy picked up the handphone, thumbing on the switch. "Dr. Rives?" he repeated.
"But how do you account for the fact that those two men, and only those two men, were dismissed for alleged deficient intelligence?" "The tests aren't all made," Melroy replied. "Until they are, you can't say that they are the only ones disqualified. And if you look over the records of the tests, you'll see where Koffler and Burris failed and the others passed. Here."
Melroy suggest to you that any specific employee or employees of his were undesirable and ought to be eliminated?" Fields asked. "Certainly not!" Doris Rives became angry. "And if he had, I'd have taken the first plane out of here. That suggestion is insulting! And for your information, I never met Mr.
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