Posted by Lieutenant Casela Synthi-er (Counsellor / RTF) in Science Psych Evals

Posted by Lieutenant Commander GLaDOS (Chief Science Officer) in Science Psych Evals

Posted by Lieutenant Casela Synthi-er (Counsellor / RTF) in Science Psych Evals

Casela sat in her office looking over the crew manifest. This was a problem. She sent a message to Cmdr. GLaDOS informing her that only one member of her science team had actually reported for their evaluations, a one Crewman Polizzi. That without these evaluations the science department would not be able to continue with their duty shifts. She requested they all make appointments immediately.

Lt. Synthi-er, CNS

Within about an hour, over seventeen appointments were requested. GLaDOS included.

GLaDOS, CSO

An hour and half later, Casela walked into the outer office of the Science Labs. She had her RTF clearance badge with her, if needed, but she was there as CNS at the moment. She looked at the NE to confirm there was no staff meeting going on, and when that was confimed she gave a list of names to the NE. “They all have appointments and I thought it would be easier if I came here instead. Lt. Cmdr. GLaDOS, En. Echo, and En. Kahl.” The rest of the 17 appointments were scheduled with the rest of her staff.

Lt. Synthi-er, CNS/RTF

Ooc: Ok i could have sworn i replied to this like three days ago. guess it didn’t send?

IC:
GLaDOS glanced over at the woman with an odd expression on her face, then turned back to her work. She would wait for Lt. Synthi-er to come to her. GLaDOS didn’t put much stock in psych evals for herself, personally. She didn’t know what neurotypical was for her species, and neither did the Federation shrinks. The bionic processors in her brain did not change their function. She didn’t change. One evaluation should be fine, but they insisted on regular check-ins. It was annoying and a waste of time.

GLaDOS, CSO

Casela walked over to GLaDOS. She was carrying a tricorder. “Lt. Cmdr. I think this is a first for me. I have no idea what would be considered a base line for you. If you are okay with it, I would take some scans of your bionic processors to make sure they are working properly and then you can tell me how you monitor them for misfire and malfunction.” Casela new or had had Lt Cmdr GLaDOS described as more AI than humanoid. She wasn’t sure how true that was, but if it was true she wasn’t sure why GLaDOS needed a psych eval. So this was new for her.
Lt. Synthi-er, CNS

“If your scans do not interfere with my work, certainly. Otherwise, I believe I scheduled my appointment for after my work shift was complete.” GLaDOS replied with a small look of annoyance towards the woman. Of course, she knew it was needed, but that didn’t stop her from being annoyed by the fact that it apparently had to happen while she was focusing on some complex chemistry. There was quite a set up in front of GLaDOS. It appeared to be a distillation process, and GLaDOS would periodically check a few different instruments, checking on the process of the distillation. Off to the side was another complex set-up that seemed ready for whatever GLaDOS was distilling once she was finished with the current process.

GLaDOS, CSO

“Actually I’m here for your staff. If it’s alright with you, I would like to use the outer room to do their evals. All on their breaks, but being here allows them to get back to work faster rather than traveling the ship to the bowls to get to my office. Your appt is for later. I just wanted to consult you, briefly, on my approach to your visit as well as to ask if you were alright with me using a bit of space in the outer office area. I would not want to interrupt your experiments.” Casela bit back strongly her urge to tell GLaDOS that her need to assert her experiments were more important than the running of the ship was about 6 hours, now, away from her whole department being relieved of duty because they had not reported sooner, when they arrived on board. She didn’t necessarily include GLaDOS in that lack of reporting because of who and maybe what she was. She didn’t have GLaDOS psych records and didn’t know if she had every had one before. But she’d been stressing to EVERYONE they needed to work together as a whole and not separate divisions flexing their muscles against each other. So, despite her better judgement, she made a supreme effort to be polite.
Lt. Synthi-er, CNS

GLaDOS nodded. “That is fine,” she commented, shutting off the system she was working with and quickly moving over to the other set-up and pouring the heated mixture into another vial, which began to fizzle and change colour from pink to white, then to green. GLaDOS stared at the forming precipitate, her bionic eye making some odd noises as she scanned the mixture on several different wavelengths. “I apologize for my brusqueness, Casela,” she added as she kept a close eye on the mixture, adding a drop of another chemical every few moments. She’d sensed some very mild annoyance in the Counselor’s voice and knew that if some mild annoyance was getting through, she must be quite frustrated. “This is an experiment I have been trying to get right for several weeks now and I think I have finally managed to get the right process. I just really don’t want to have to start over again after putting so much work into it.”

She took the now deep-green mixture over to a third set-up with an ice bath and an agitator and set it in the ice bath, covering the beaker with a piece of plastic-wrap.

She let out a sigh and pushed away from the bench, looking rather relieved. “Now we let it sit for an hour. Where was I… Ah yes. Psych evals. I have been telling my staff to sign up, I apologise that I wasn’t forceful enough in my insisting until earlier today after we got the message from you.”

GLaDOS, CSO