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What are all these yuppies doing here?! The site an abandoned multifloor structure, a skyscraper that ran out of funds midbuild - somewhat developed on a few levels, barely anything but floor and beams on others. Is the event location for an art show or some sort? I had suggested the very idea to my team: How very meta of you. Large prints of ( Read more... )

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Bunch of us were hanging out in a sweet ol' library, updating a wiki on this crusty, antiquated mainframe, but it was equipped with bleeding edge virtual display - when you're using it you appear as if swatting at gnats in the air, but you're grabbing at menus and such like. The entry on xurvandus1 was going nowhere: Some weirdo ecclesiastical ( ( Read more... )

Year review results in:

• my schedule will be slightly adjusted to allow for better results
  
• I am to be given my own trainee/intern
  
• there will be a raise in pay

This is after:

• I was reassigned to different department
  
• performance in said dept was deemed "shit"
  
• my schedule was cut nearly to the bone

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This article made me remarkably angry.

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Inside Man (2005) is skipfree, loop-lovely, and perfect for early afternoon listening. Thank you Mr Blanchard. Thank you internettes.

After short shift (my Friday, as it were) I made it to the cafe to meet up with my sib for sangwiches and soup. Proper winter cold - in the single digits with wind that laughs at your meagre attempts to protect vs exposure and pile layers on - and exertion made the food more delicious than it usually is. Then we stop by to awww and say hello to the ( Read more... )

After doing nothing all day I checked in to see if they'd put me on shift. True enough they did - felt better knowing what my week's going to be like, but even better was the evening super asking me out of the blue if I worked out. He then proceeded to regale me with how he used to go to the gym everyday for five years, but he loves fun (his ( Read more... )

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