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To: [The Focused One]
From: [the kitten]
Subject: How about a little respect for your fellow residents

Forge, I get that your power makes you more than a lot focused when you've got a project going, but the mansion's servers are not your personal toys. Trust me, if I was still in finals, I'd have been screaming at you right along with Doug this afternoon - your research is not automatically more important than what he or I or Paige might be doing. Hell, it's not even automatically more important than everybody else's right to check their email.

-Kit

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To: [Overreacting]
From: [Perfectly Justified]

Oh please, like I don't know what I'm doing. I was using the large mainframe for some high-end number crunching for all of a three-hour period. It didn't affect regular use of the system in the slightest. Whatever little 'project' Dougie wanted to work on could wait. If it was important, which it obviously wasn't, he'd have explained what he was doing.

As for finals, you weren't still in finals, so it's a moot point. Regardless, Ramsey's liable to have a lot more time now to actually work on worthwhile projects, and I don't foresee my research putting a heavy load on the mainframe any time soon. Self-solving problem.

JHF

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To: [Chip on his Shoulder]
From: [Aggravated]

The problem, Forge, is not the drain you were putting on the system, the problem is your lack of respect for the rest of us. Like I said, I didn't care about the server drain but, although you finished early, you told Doug you'd be done by 3am, which meant you were expecting an eight hour complete server drain and you didn't even bother to send out a note "Oh, by the way" to any of the rest of us. Including the medlab, which also uses that server - I checked the mail logs. And the fact that I wasn't in finals is not a moot point, seeing as you had no way of knowing that, or that my boss hadn't given me a summer project. I'm not saying your work isn't important, but how about a little recognition that the rest of us may also be doing important work - even if it's only important to us.

And, trust me, when you're starting your emails to somebody with a statement like "Oh please", using quote marks around project and referring to him as 'Dougie', it's not a self-solving problem.

-Kitty Pryde

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To: [Needlessly Fussing]
From: [Chip and then some]

I'M getting a lecture on respect? You know, the day Ramsey comes to me speaking in anything but his usual tone of smug superiority, he'll get a little respect. As it stands, I don't really feel the need to have a great deal of respect for someone who sets aside things they are born to be great at for trivialities and self-serving amusements. But like I said, it doesn't look like Doug has to worry about those distractions anymore, so if he needs more priority on the servers for his work, I will happily concede the point.

JHF

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To: [Asshole]
From: [Self-righteous and Not Giving a Fuck]

Yeah, Forge, you're getting a lecture on respect, because yeah, Doug's tone was out of line to begin with, because clearly something else was going on, and you just took the chance to needle him, and you're referring to his destroyed relationship with his girlfriend of 2+ years as "distractions" and generally being a little shit. And this'd be why you got all pissy at Dr. McCoy when Billy was born, too, huh? Because God forbid someone with brains also have a life? Or that people's priorities might be different and the things you think "they are born to be great at" might not be what they think is most important? Cause, personally, I think Dr. McCoy's a great dad, and that Doug's a brilliant singer and that if they want to spend their time on those things, or I want to dance, or Paige wants to take up fucking underwater basket-weaving, then fabulous for us. It's called having a life. You should get one sometime.

-K.P.

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To: [Sanctimonious]
From: [Nonetheless Unfazed]

It doesn't matter what they think is the most important. That's the mark of selfishness and it's wasting the talents they have. How much more for the greater good could you be doing if you applied yourself to research rather than dancing or making pancakes for Jamie and dreaming of white picket fences and 2.5 kids? Doug could be designing the most brilliant encryption/decryption software the world's ever witnessed - but you know what? He spends most of his time at the side of his "hot redhead girlfriend", a fact that he has never missed the opportunity to point out and parade around like some trophy of superiority.

You think I'm supposed to respect that? Let me fill you in on something: love is nothing special. If it was, it wouldn't be something everyone could accomplish, from some dirt farmer in Botswana to a Fortune 500 executive in Stamford. There's absolutely nothing exceptional about it - there is about genius, however.

When Mr. al-Rashid needed our help, you two set everything else aside and together we all accomplished things that surpassed experts who've been in the field for years. THAT is genius. THAT is something to respect.

What galls me is that I'm apparently the only one who doesn't require a life-threatening crisis to take my gifts seriously. So Doug had a bad day and his facade of a relationship finally came crashing down on him. Not my fault, and not my concern except as it relates to the likelihood of him being able to put more time into pursuits that can benefit more than his own ego.

JHF

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To: [John Henry Forge]
From: [Kathrine Pryde]

Go to hell.