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Hostile Work Environment

Summary:

[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To:

From: [email protected]

Bcc: [email protected]; [email protected]

Subject: Re: Fwd: Watch List

You have two options: offworld forever with McKay or on Earth with Kavanaugh

Notes:

I want to say up front that this is not particularly friendly to McKay. The characterization of him, as it is, is based largely off of his SG-1 characterization.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Work Text:

[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To:

From: [email protected]

Bcc: [email protected]; [email protected] 

Subject: Fwd: Watch List

[Attachment: WL_2009]

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To:

From: [email protected]

Bcc: [email protected]; [email protected]

Subject: Re: Fwd: Watch List

You have two options: offworld forever with McKay or on Earth with Kavanaugh

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To:

From: [email protected]

Bcc: [email protected]; [email protected]

Subject: Re: Fwd: Watch List

You know they’re both going to Atlantis with you, right?

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected] 

CC: [email protected]

From: [email protected] 

Subject: Civilian Disciplinary Procedures Inquiry

Dear Dr. Weir,

I understand, given the current status of the mission, that we are unable to facilitate staff turnover at this time. Given that situation, please advise as to the procedures for disciplining individuals who create a hostile work environment or otherwise act inappropriately.

Current vote from the science department is for throwing Dr. McKay off a pier.

Dr. Marsha Oslo
Physicist

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 [TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Fwd: Civilian Disciplinary Procedures Inquiry

John–

Did you see this?

Elizabeth

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Fwd: Civilian Disciplinary Procedures Inquiry

We can’t afford to lose McKay

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Fwd: Civilian Disciplinary Procedures Inquiry

John–

Do you think we can afford to lose our entire science department, instead?

Elizabeth

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

CC: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Civilian Disciplinary Procedures Inquiry

Dear Dr. Oslo,

Thank you for your question. We are currently in the process of developing formal mediation procedures to address concerns between civilian staff. Given our current situation, many avenues available to us on Earth are not available to us here.

For the moment, I recommend continuing to work internally to address interpersonal concerns. Please let me know if you have additional concerns.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Weir

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Civilian Disciplinary Procedures Inquiry

Dr. Weir,

Will the formal mediation procedures come before or after he offers to show us his etchings?

Dr. Marsha Oslo
Physicist

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject:

considering watery grave

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re:

For you or him?

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re:

yes

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re:

???

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re:

he said I’m lucky I’m hot because I clearly never learned physics and they would have been better off bringing another marine instead of me because at least the marines can cook fuck fuck fuck i hate him

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re:

Fuck

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: ZPM Yield Calculations

[Attachment: ZPM Yield Calculations 7 January 2010]

Dr. McKay,

The yield calculations that you requested are attached here.

Dr. Marsha Oslo,
Physicist

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: South Wing Pier 7PM?

 

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: South Wing Pier 7PM?

Bring alcohol

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: South Wing Pier 7PM?

Is chocolate an appropriate substitute?

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: South Wing Pier 7PM?

I would murder someone for a piece of chocolate

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: South Wing Pier 7PM?

:)

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: ZPM Yield Calculations

[Attachment: ZPM Yield Calculations 19 January 2010]

Dr. McKay,

The yield calculations that you requested are attached here.

Dr. Marsha Oslo,
Physicist

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: You Have Two Options

  1. Stay on Atlantis but there are no Wraith
  2. Go back to Earth but Kavanaugh is also there

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: You Have Two Options

#2 all the way. I can just be somewhere that isn’t where Kavanaugh is.

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: You Have Two Options

Humans are endurance predators.

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: You Have Two Options

That might be the most ominous thing you have ever sent me.

Also Earth has cars.

You have two Options:

  1. Stay on Atlantis but they figure out how to make coffee
  2. Go back to Earth but you still have to email ZPM yield calculations to McKay every few weeks because he still thinks you can’t do math

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: You Have Two Options

Are you also on Earth?

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: You Have Two Options

In a car, apparently, outpacing endurance predator Peter Kavanaugh

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: You Have Two Options

Then Earth :) we can share a car

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: You Have Two Options

What do you miss most about it?

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: You Have Two Options

Coffee. Not living in the same floating city as Rodney fucking McKay. Chocolate. Pho. The mountains. Snow.

You?

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: You Have Two Options

I think the right answer is my family, but the real answer is that I miss being able to just go somewhere and do something that isn’t all on the same city. There’s something about the isolation, about all of these people jammed into the same place with no way to get off and nowhere to go and nobody new or different to see.

Sometimes I feel like it’s making me a little crazy.

But then I think–look at what we’re doing. Look at what we’re doing! We’re in another fucking galaxy, studying things that most people can only dream of, and we get to do it together, and I can’t imagine anything that’s better than that. Everything else seems so unimportant compared to this.

We could help save a galaxy.

I do want to go back home, though, at least for a visit.

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: You Have Two Options

We’ll get there.

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: You Have Two Options

You, me, and the car.

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: ZPM Yield Calculations

[Attachment: ZPM Yield Calculations 23 January 2010]

Dr. McKay,

The yield calculations that you requested are attached here.

Dr. Marsha Oslo,
Physicist

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[UNCLASSIFIED]

To: [email protected] 

From: [email protected]

Subject: Lisa

Dear Mrs. Westen,

I am so sorry for your loss. Lisa and I were close friends, and I want you to know that she talked about you and your entire family at every chance she got. She had a lot of love in her heart, and she felt so much of it for you.

I’m sorry.

Marsha

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: ZPM Yield Calculations

[Attachment: ZPM Yield Calculations 17 February 2010]

Dr. McKay,

The yield calculations that you requested are attached here.

Dr. Marsha Oslo,
Physicist

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Message could not be delivered

[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: I know you won’t get this but

I love you i love you i love you i’m so sorry

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Subject: ZPM Yield Calculations

[Attachment: ZPM Yield Calculations 3 March 2010]

Dr. McKay,

The yield calculations that you requested are attached here.

Dr. Marsha Oslo,
Physicist

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[TOP SECRET//SGC]

To: [email protected] 

From: [email protected] 

Subject: Transfer Request

[Attachment: Transfer Request_Oslo] [Attachment: R McKay Complaint Documentation 2009-2010]

Dear Dr. Weir,

My transfer request is attached. 

Dr. Marsha Oslo
Physicist

Notes:

This mostly came out of me thinking about what it would be like to be someone working under McKay (and, specifically, a woman working under McKay), while trapped on Atlantis.