"Uh, you can mail it to ...3240 Tongass Blvd Apartment 3B, in Juneau, in Alaska, which is one of the United States of America." He says "Blvd" as "bllllvd."

"Right, thank you." There's a shuffling sound and throat clearing. "I, uh, what actual documents do you need, I have my license and references but do you need my grades from school too..." 

"Um, I think we need, uh, license and references and, uh, your name, and contact information, and -" he's consulting a reference form - "the date?"

"All right, thank you - sorry, can you say the address one more time, I didn't get all of it written down..." 

"3240 Tongass Bl-vd Apartment 3 Bee, in Juneau, in Alaska, which is one of the United States of America." 

"Thank you very much." Click as she hangs up. 

(Aaaaaaah why is applying to new jobs the absolute worst, is what she's thinking.) 

The Andalite is faithfully sending the call recording over for other people to pore over and come up with better answers before the next person calls.

They get a couple more calls over the next few days, from people who seem way less enthused by the prospect, and/or uncomfortable by the (admittedly lesser) weird awkward moments on the call. 

Two days later the house receives a letter from Marian Daly of Vancouver, Canada, with a photocopy of her license, and a cover letter with references and her phone number and address, and a letter that seems to be from one of her nursing school teachers, which the cover letter says she included 'just in case it's helpful'. 

Matirin calls the references himself, mostly because listening to recordings of all the other interactions between Andalites and humans is unbearable and he isn't sure he'll do any better but at least if he can't he can stop being irritated with them about it. 

"Hey, this is John Anderson with Staffing Solutions Juneau, I'm calling to check a reference?"

"This is Lacie. Is this for Marian, she said she was applying somewhere." 

"Uh, yes, she applied to our position for a remote emergency medicine role in northern Alaska. How do you know Marian?"

"Colleague, she joined us, hmm... bit under a year ago, must be. Knew her in clinical rotations too." 

"Thank you. In your time working with Marian what was your general impression of her."

"Smart kid. Really keen, tries hard, always up for staying overtime and all. She is, uh, very young. Curious, really gets to know her patients. Still working on bedside manner and time management and all but she's getting there. Say, what sort of job is this, anyway? Would she be working with other experienced nurses or is this solo? I'm...not sure she has the bedside experience for working without any backup." 

"We're trying to hire a full team of people. She won't need to treat patients alone. The job is emergency medicine in rural northern Alaska. The area hasn't had a hospital previously but we are opening one, with a grant, from the national government of the United States."

"Oh, wow! No wonder she's enthusiastic about it. She helped us open the new stepdown ward here and was very involved." 

"Oh, can you tell me more about that? When was that?"

"Three months ago. We had an issue with ICU beds being taken up with patients who really weren't ICU-level sick but needed monitoring, we got a new hallway for it and had to set up different protocols for it, and we send a nurse there alone for shifts to cover all four beds, so that was a whole adjustment. Marian did some research on her own and wrote up one of the protocols we ended up using, and she reorganized the entire supply room on her month of nights. Doesn't like sitting still." 

"Thank you. Can you tell me about a time when you or another person had to deliver negative feedback to Marian, and describe how it went?"

"Hmm. She, uh, talks loudly, especially when she's really focused, people had to remind her about that a few times. She's never reacted badly or anything, she really wants to please people and it's gotten a lot better. She did cry once, the time she gave report on the phone where the patient could overhear it and, uh, wasn't perfectly professional, and someone had to tell her, but she took it well after that. Oh, uh, she rides her bike to work and I had to tell her a couple of times that she, well, needed better deodorant, and she was a little defensive on that one, but she addressed the problem." 

"Thank you. Do you know of any employees or patients she has had significant conflicts with?"

"Her patients really like her! She spends a lot of time with them, uh, that's mostly what causes the time management issue. There is one doctor who seemed to settle on disliking her from day one, which I don't think is really her fault, she asks a lot of questions in rounds and gives long reports and he's, uh, not known for his patience. So she's very anxious when he's the attending now, but she deals with it." 

"How would you compare Marian to other employees you've supervised?" He would like this interaction to be over and thinks he has enough to go off but being too long is a less suspicious kind of inconsiderateness than being too brief, and when people are thinking about how to get you to go away they're not thinking about whether you're suspicious.

"...Young? Mostly it's the, uh, keenness." 

"Thank you. Uh, and can I get your name and your best guess of the dates you worked together, it's for our records..."