No, no, no, no, wrong, wrong, wrong. It's come to our attention you're not measuring up on the stocks, you'll need to play late again with no overtime, your long-distance trade routes have to be completely redone, you all can't seem to do anything right. Oh, we're going to have to write you folks up again too, you're just not measuring up with stocks, that's three more demerits this week, didn't you get the memos about the paycut? 10% across-the-galaxy, we've got to cut back, it's the bottom line, you see. And your insurance pays for your ships? Yeah, they're going up, better tighten your belts. We're merging with a bigger corporation, there's going to be one flavor of ice cream, one brand of coffee, one ship. There's many people waiting for your jobs, 1/3 of Federals work for less than 12,000 credits an hour, get used to it, be happy with what you've got. You'll have to play catch-up on the weekends with no overtime profit, of course. You're not meeting your quotas.
What's that, you all say? The quotas are impossible to meet? Duh! Here's how it works, we sit in our offices and do some simple math. We look at other corporations similar to ours, get stats, we take naps, we crunch some numbers. And, if the figures show it's only humanly possible for several people to complete, say 10 long-distance trades a week? We double it. And that becomes your new quotas, 20 long-distance trades a week. Simple. Of course it's impossible, that's the whole point! Got to keep you on edge. We'll give you some malarkey about setting the bar high, meeting goals, etc. But that's not the real reason. We've got to keep you traders in fear, fearful people develop low self-esteem. Thus, they'll never trade for more profit, but for the corporation. What? You want more profit?
Oh, and if you smuggle those rare, illegal commodities to break us up, there's no going back. There's enough hard demand in them to make a galaxy of bankrupt politics for our friends at the Federation. Some of you got out of our company's territory alive, and we've done everything in our power to cover your tracks, but our enemies are twitchy and malicious corporate paranoiacs you're too moral to imagine. You won't be the only targets. Anything you care about, your ship insurances, your reputations and your credit balances, they'll be nothing to the Federation but ways to damage your game-play. We need you all to understand the bridge you're crossing here. You will do irrevocable damage to the Federation, you might even get close to something like justice. But, once you click "sell", your game-play is over, everything that is important to you is wiped. But it's the right thing to do. Is hurting the Federation that much to you?
What's that, you all say? The quotas are impossible to meet? Duh! Here's how it works, we sit in our offices and do some simple math. We look at other corporations similar to ours, get stats, we take naps, we crunch some numbers. And, if the figures show it's only humanly possible for several people to complete, say 10 long-distance trades a week? We double it. And that becomes your new quotas, 20 long-distance trades a week. Simple. Of course it's impossible, that's the whole point! Got to keep you on edge. We'll give you some malarkey about setting the bar high, meeting goals, etc. But that's not the real reason. We've got to keep you traders in fear, fearful people develop low self-esteem. Thus, they'll never trade for more profit, but for the corporation. What? You want more profit?
Oh, and if you smuggle those rare, illegal commodities to break us up, there's no going back. There's enough hard demand in them to make a galaxy of bankrupt politics for our friends at the Federation. Some of you got out of our company's territory alive, and we've done everything in our power to cover your tracks, but our enemies are twitchy and malicious corporate paranoiacs you're too moral to imagine. You won't be the only targets. Anything you care about, your ship insurances, your reputations and your credit balances, they'll be nothing to the Federation but ways to damage your game-play. We need you all to understand the bridge you're crossing here. You will do irrevocable damage to the Federation, you might even get close to something like justice. But, once you click "sell", your game-play is over, everything that is important to you is wiped. But it's the right thing to do. Is hurting the Federation that much to you?
