Vann watched me as I did it, still not saying anything. I glanced over and about ten yards away a man was on his phone, yelling at someone in what appeared to be Armenian. The safety glass in the car windows had shattered and a few nuggets had crumbled off. I started walking around the car, getting the thing from every angle. "You got it," I said, and started recording. "This ours?" I asked, nodding to the car, and the love seat. Its roof had been crushed by a love seat. So I glanced over to the car that we were standing next to. It was up to me to get the conversation started. She withdrew her hand and continued sucking on her stick of nicotine. One or the other usually gets commented on. It's always an interesting test to see what people do when they meet me, both because of who I am and because I'm Haden. She held out her hand.Īnd then I waited to see what the next thing out of her mouth would be. "Agent Shane," said my new partner, to me. But then again, it was a pretty good chance she didn't need it. My partner didn't have her glasses on so she wouldn't have had the same waterfall of detail on me scroll past her as I walked up. It was the Bureau's way of letting its agents know who was who on the scene.
As I got closer the chip in her badge started spilling her details into my field of vision. She was standing a bit away from the lobby entrance, sucking on an electronic cigarette. I spotted my new partner as I walked up to the Watergate Hotel. My second day on the job started with more blood than I would have expected. I went home and didn't go into the Agora. Then I went home early because my new partner had to testify in a court case and wasn't going to be around for the rest of the day, and they didn't have anything else for me to do. Then I was assigned my weapon, software upgrades, and badge.
So the number of Hadens calling me a scab was probably lower than it could have been.Īside from the Agora outrage, my first day was a lot of time in HR, filling out paperwork, getting my benefits and retirement plan explained to me in mind-numbing detail. The second was that technically speaking the FBI is law enforcement, which qualified it as an essential service. The Agora was split into two very noisy warring camps between the walkout supporters and the Hadens who thought it was a pointless maneuver given that Abrams-Kettering had already been signed into law. The first day participation was spotty at best. The first was that not every Haden was down with the walkout to begin with. Two things kept all of the Agora from falling down on my head in outrage.
This was not a thing I needed on my first day. A feed of me walking into the FBI building got a fair amount of play on the Haden news sites and forums. MY FIRST DAY on the job coincided with the first day of the Haden Walkout, and I'm not going to lie, that was some awkward timing.
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