Author’s Note to Chapter 103
I saw a lot of comments on FanFiction about Lula’s position in the last chapter. Lula’s position is similar to Vinnie or David. She’s a ‘special’/’contract’ employee, not a RangeMan. Just as Vinnie and David do not have to undergo RangeMan training, neither does Lula because she gets paid for each project she handles. The same for the contract workers who man the monitors at each location. They don’t have to be trained to RM standards because they’re paid per job.
Lula’s in an awkward position. She’s the only wife/fiancée of RangeMan leadership living in the building. She doesn’t have a job and she doesn’t have kids. Aside from school and wedding planning, she doesn’t have anything else to do and, as we’ve seen, bored characters get into trouble. Also, RMSA is Lula’s home, since she and Tank can’t agree on a house. She’s interested in the running of the place and trying to help out as much as possible because that’s her home. Lula working at RMSA started off as a volunteer thing, something for Lula to do while visiting Tank, but when Les saw how good she was at it, they formalized her role.
Essentially, she’s just filling in at the moment, something for her to do while she takes her college classes because she’s not taking a full load. When she starts taking a full load, then she won’t have time to help. If she ever became a full or part time employee then yes, she’d have to get the training and that’s something she’s contemplating already, on her own. An earlier example is Mariela Cortes. When she worked as RangeMan’s exclusive seller’s agent in Miami, she did not have to be a RangeWoman to do that. She worked on a commission basis, piece by piece, project by project.
As Tank said, it’s his job is to hire and Candy’s job is to do employee admin and we’ve seen that when Candy thinks there should be a change made, she doesn’t mind standing up to whoever is in charge. That’s vital for HR people. They have to be willing to hold the line. Now that Candy is on-site to see what Lula’s doing, she can assess whether or not a change needs to be made and she is the correct person to bring that up with Tank, not Steph. Tank and Candy can handle that.
I am stating now, as the author, there’s no hypocrisy in how Lula is being treated. It’s in line with how certain employees, historically, have been treated. It simply feels and looks awkward because RMSA is Lula’s home and the lines are blurry.
Veiland
