Mr. Magnuson, welcome. As you know, we are looking into a new employee for the company. This company is a well know reputation across the galaxy and are hiring sapiens species across the Milky Way. We contacted you for the final interview regarding being an accountant for the Scrosqeds branch. We will now tell you a bit about this job.
The job itself is to review and analyze financial records, keeping track of the company and the three high individuals in our Scrosqeds branch income, expenditures, and tax liabilities. These individuals are our representative Mr. Felvo, the CEO Miss Grenkraid, and our SR in the branch Mr. Daehroth. All individuals have been informed about the reviews under your potential care.
You will be working with ten others in our Scrosqeds branch, representing a small sample of the scale of sapiens in the Milkey Way. You will be working with seven Scrosqeds, as it is in their home territory. And you will be working with two Unkails and one other Human. The branch Scrosqeds itself hires Scrosqeds mainly but does have representation all over the galaxy.
The reason why we are hiring accountants in Scrosqeds, is mainly for impartiality and being able to see objectively the data Scrosqeds gives towards you. We require you to once a year do a full analysis of the income, expenditures, and tax liabilities of the Scrosqeds branch. Your working day accounts for planet lag, lunch and other day to day activities that is required of you in the working hours. You can choose your hours after establishing a working routine in Scrosqeds.
As mentioned in the job application, we will cover three months of rent in an apartment of our choosing. This apartment has a monthly expenditure of 1500 Common, equivalent to the United States dollar. You will be paid 75 000 Common per year, with an increase of two percent for every year you work for us in Scrosqeds, taken with account for yearly inflation.
Your medical, dental and phycological needs will be covered by us as per Working Right act 245. If you decide to establish a family and have kids in Scrosqeds, we will cover your parental leave with full employment benefit with pay. We will cover your lawyers fee for integration and immigration back to Earth if your children are born in Scrosqeds. We will also cover your lawyer fees if you decide to stay permanently in Scrosqeds.
Should you ever come to small legal trouble, such as drunken disorder and such, we will cover part of the lawyer’s fee for you. Should you be charged with criminal indictment that does not involve our business, we will cover a small part of the lawyer’s fee. Should you be charged with fraud, murder, or similar, your lawyers fee will not be covered.
You have right to call for holiday in total of six earth weeks. If you cannot come due to medical injuries, you have the right of full employee pay for three Earth months. After that you have the right of half pay for a half Earth year. If your injuries are extreme, you have the right to paid travel back to Earth, with above employee pay. If the injuries involve anything with your work, that severely injured you, you have the right to full employee pay for one Earth year. And half pay for three Earth years afterwords.
You are obligated to travel to Scrosqeds and stay for at least three Earth months. The travel time between Scrosqeds and Earth will be four Earth months. If you want to dissolve our working relationship sooner than three Earth months, you must pay your travels back on your own money. We will cover the expenses from Scrosqeds in the economy class after the three Earth months. We will of course during business trips cover your expenses further. You are obligated to be in quarantine before travel to and from Scrosqeds for three Earth weeks. You will of course be fully covered for the duration.
Scrosqeds has a lower gravity then Earth, and as such your physical health may be deteriorating. We will cover the gym expenses for your stay. You are recommended to stay physical fit, to avoid health problems due to a low gravity environment. Your apartment has settings for false gravity, but we still recommend daily training, especially in a low gravity setting. This is to familiarize your body in a low gravity environment.
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The working environment is very top down. Scrosqeds themselves will not do anything without the CEO’s and SR’s permission and representatives from those two. Scrosqeds usually start working on sunset their time, and end their work on sundown, with two Earth hours midday rest. Their day is 22 Earth hours total, with 10 hours daylight at the equator.
Scrosqeds use both the Galactic common language and their main language in various degree of proficiency in the Galactic common. The signs will be in their main language. Don’t expect to live with only knowing Galactic common. Our branch in Scrosqeds is required to use Galactic common as the main language.
Scrosqeds use the base 8 numbering system for all their daily needs. This means for every eight days their time, you will have a nonworking day for yourself. It’s common for the employees to go out together in their seventh day.
You need to become accustomed to using base 8 while reviewing the income, expenditures, and tax liabilities of the Scrosqeds branch. We expect you to convert the Scrosqeds branch yearly records to base 10.
Their food is mostly vegan, with the equivalent of eggs and occasional produced meat on rare occasions. Their custom is to eat together on midday with the CEO eating last. It’s customary for the CEO to pay the food. Since you will be the accountant, you will be the second last to eat according to their customs. Belching and slurping the food is a complement to the CEO for providing food to their employees, and it is basic Scrosqeds eating etiquette.
The average lifespan for Scrosqeds is 70 Earth years. They go on pension when they reach 57. Their child mortality is two children in every clutch will die before reaching adulthood. It’s customary for the father to dress up with white feathers when their children die. One feather for every year the child is alive. The feathers will be removed one by one for every year, till nothing is left. On some occasions, the parents will dress in more white feathers, if the child dies after reaching adulthood. There are no customs for when the parents die, except dressing in black feathers. This time the feathers will be removed after only one Scrosqeds year.
Male and females normally establish an intimate relationship within 16 Scrosqeds years after reaching adulthood. Both sexes work before getting intimidate. It is common for polygamic relationship, where there are more females than males in a family structure. Usually in a family structure, there are two males, and four females. Normally, only one female lay eggs.
Scrosqeds family structure is the females are home with their clutch. The males are the one working. A family unit has five to ten children all hatched at similar timeframe. The male does have parental leave, but it’s rare. The children reach adulthood in eight years after being hatched. It’s rare for parents to have more then two clutches of children.
Now for daily life, Common is the currency used in Scrosqeds. It’s electronic and does not have physical equivalent such as paper or coin. 10 Common can get you plenty of day-to-day stuff such as soap, cheap food, and toiletry. You do not pay for public transportation. You must pay 55% tax according to your stated salary, so your real yearly salary will be 41 250 Common.
It’s a normal sale tax of 25% for most of the inventories in your local store. Exemption is food and bottled water. You cannot drink from the sink, as it contains bacteria that have evolved in running fresh water. You can of course use the water for cooking, cleaning yourself, laundry, and utensils.
The bottle of water is made recyclable, and it is mandatory to for all sapiens to collect all bottles to collect in designated recycle bins. Food waste is converted to compost. Anything else aside from metal, paper and glass is collected and burned.
Speaking of public transport, if you are five minutes late due to the use of transportation, the transportation company will issue you an apology to your CEO. Scrosqeds have a strict etiquette for being punctual. They have a saying; if you are not early, you are late. So be on the job five minutes early or more is common.
Crime is rarely an occurrence, and those that commit crimes have a recidivism rate of 15%. It’s also common if you forget your lost bag to have it hand delivered to your workplace, house or in the lost and found storage, with all your valuables in it.
So, in short, if you want a society that are punctual, enjoy a top-down hierarchy, have odd hours of work, and are a society of tradition and deep caring family. Scrosqeds is the place to be.
What do you think, Mr. Magnuson?