Come for the steak, stay for the stakeouts
Who: Tony OT Initiative team members
Where: The Stake House
When: Sunday evening
Tony had made a point of hosting the Initiative team meeting at the Stake House out of cynicism -- people were more likely to show up and pay attention if they could call it a business expense and get a free dinner out of it. He had arrived early and staked out (no pun intended) the side room for their little meeting -- it was a OSI-cleared-secure location, and besides, most of the OSI conference rooms had uncomfortable chairs and markerboards that seldom proved useful. This was much better. He nodded to each member in turn as they arrived and filtered into seats, and when the last had arrived, he spoke.
"Alright, everyone -- glad you could all join me for dinner. Just so we're clear, this is a business dinner, as we'll be discussing some major points we need to be focused on within our jurisdiction, so don't eat so much that you forget to pay attention. Knowledge is survival, after all. Now, then. Let's go around the table -- we have a few new faces here in both the reserves and active-duty teams, so if everyone at the table could introduce yourselves to the others, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it."
Where: The Stake House
When: Sunday evening
Tony had made a point of hosting the Initiative team meeting at the Stake House out of cynicism -- people were more likely to show up and pay attention if they could call it a business expense and get a free dinner out of it. He had arrived early and staked out (no pun intended) the side room for their little meeting -- it was a OSI-cleared-secure location, and besides, most of the OSI conference rooms had uncomfortable chairs and markerboards that seldom proved useful. This was much better. He nodded to each member in turn as they arrived and filtered into seats, and when the last had arrived, he spoke.
"Alright, everyone -- glad you could all join me for dinner. Just so we're clear, this is a business dinner, as we'll be discussing some major points we need to be focused on within our jurisdiction, so don't eat so much that you forget to pay attention. Knowledge is survival, after all. Now, then. Let's go around the table -- we have a few new faces here in both the reserves and active-duty teams, so if everyone at the table could introduce yourselves to the others, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it."