97 Seconds to Save Your Career (For All Mankind Season 2)

    John Perkins: What can I do for you?
    Margo Madison: I’m Margo Madison. I need to see Sergei Nikulov.
    John Perkins: No one goes in, no one goes out. Those are my orders.
    Margo Madison: I’m the director, Johnson Space Center.
    John Perkins: I’m sure you are, honey, but you’re not getting in.
    Margo Madison: What’s your name?
    John Perkins: Sergeant John Perkins.
    Margo Madison: Okay, Sergeant John Perkins, I know you have a job to do, but so do I. I’m gonna give you 15 seconds to get in touch with your superior officer, 12 seconds to explain the situation to him, 45 seconds for him to reach General Nelson Bradford and confirm I am who I say I am. Another 15 seconds for your boss to get back to you and ten for you to open this door. That puts you 97 seconds away from either a cold beer at the end of your shift or an open-ended transfer to Thule, Greenland. Your time starts now. Honey.

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    #controlleddominance #dominance #orders

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    1. Don't comment unless you've watched the series "For All Mankind". It's about alternate timeline about space race. I don't want to give out more cause it starts with a bang. I highly recommend watching at least 1st episode. It will either catch your attention or not.

    2. We are taught guard duty while in bootcamp, against drill instructors who we were scared shitless of. No bitch with a Karen cut is going to deter a Marine from those orders.

    3. I have an idea: Take whoever wrote this bullshit scene, and put them through boot camp with the condition they're not allowed to quit or wash out…even if they suck at everything and fail every test,make them complete all the weeks of boot camp as recruits…then tell them imagine there's even more training after that just to be a full on Marine…and then there's more to become a Sergeant…more weeks of endless unmitigated hell ,with DIs screaming to your face when you haven't even got off the bus yet,from the moment you step on those yellow footprints until the last day of bootcamp…then ask them if they will risk breaking the chain of command or questioning standing general orders in any capacity…these people are so clueless, they think a Marine is a civilian wearing a fancy uniform, not a person who has been torn apart and rebuilt as a order obeying machine who has been rewired and conditioned to put chain of command over anything else,that's what all the years of drilling and yelling are for…

    4. When women think the world works with subjective standards and constantly changing protocols based on convenience, like their internal operating system

    5. ….yeaaaah….that's not how that works.

      Lady, you have no authority over me to give me orders nor do you have any say in where I get stationed. So, you'll stay away from that door until you get the proper credentials to show me. Should have come better prepared

    6. Bad writing. A Marine wouldn't refer to the lady as "honey" on duty. In reality she'd have to be mad that she was referred to as "ma'am."

    7. As a former Marine it's still no unless you were previously briefed to me in the meeting before or unless someone with in my chain of command gives you the okay

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