So, generally speaking, the attitude towards the hiring standards and NT's job of assigning jobs to people is more or less...random. I've heard things like "Oh, NT pretty much throws darts at different jobs when assigning us our roles." and such. And one thing that I hear quite often is how the Virgo Orbital Research Establishment is supposed to be like...Misfit Island in Space, where everyone who was too useless was rounded up and shipped off to avoid inconveniencing the more "proper" stations...
I'd like to hear your thoughts on this, if there's any truth to it or is it something that people tried to use to explain the fact that incompetence is rather rampant in almost every department, due to...well, the vore and kinkiness. Is there official lore as to how the hiring process works on Vorestation?
Personally, I find it rather, well... absolutely stupid to say that VORE is just where NT crams all of the less-than-ideal workers, which is implied when people say "Well it's not like we'd work on this station if we had a choice." and similar statements. Think of it this way: NT is a company, their top priority is to make profits. Take McDonalds for example, you wouldn't see a McDonalds where everyone working is an incompetent fool that isn't even able to make an order of fries, and then have a Manager say "Yes, this is where we put the people we couldn't have working at the proper locations." Why? Because every day that joint is losing the company money. It takes money to keep it open and to keep it running after all. It'd be absolutely pointless to even keep a restaurant like that open, and it'd be bad PR for anyone who happened to visit it.
Now replace the simple McDonalds with a multi-billion, possibly even multi-trillion research station... I know that we have to be a bit more lax when it comes to these types of things, in order to justify the silliness and sometimes downright stupidity that graces the server every now and again, and also to justify the sex RP's that often take priority over people doing their assigned role to a decent level, but the fact is, NT isn't going to hire anyone but the best of the best to work at this station. Doing anything else would lead to losing obscene amounts of money invested into the station.
At least, that's how I see it. Questions, Comments, and Fun Facts are all welcome. This is in hopes of starting a discussion about what the NT hiring standards are and what they should be, so we have an actual statement to go off of, rather than speculation and fluff that differs from person to person.