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At some point, Chris winds up making an executive decision to take Mark off the phone lines to do most of the department’s manual repairs instead, in an attempt to do damage control. (Mark’s not sure how, exactly, leaving the tech help line understaffed is helping anyone, but he’s not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. He prefers his quiet corner right by the break room, where he can just tinker with his machines while close enough to a steady supply of refrigerated Red Bull or Mountain Dew.)
Unfortunately, Chris does make a point to tell Mark to spend his breaks studying Dustin’s phone etiquette and overall technique. Mark briefly contemplates quitting (for about the tenth time), but really, who else on campus would hire him? Or put up with him for so long the way Chris has? Not to mention he’s not exactly qualified or experienced enough in anything outside of computers and code ( ... )
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Before his shift the next Monday, Chris approaches Mark with a relatively stern look on his face. Apparently, whoever Chris’ supervisor is, hasn’t been happy with the slew of complaints the IT staff have been getting, but honestly, it’s not Mark’s fault if people can’t let their grudges go (okay, so Mark realizes in hindsight, that drunk blogging about Erica and crashing the university’s servers for a simple social experiment wasn’t the best plan he’s come up with, but people have really got to stop taking things so personally)-instead, choosing to tie up the tech department’s phone lines or raise false complaints just to make Mark look bad and have the nerve to call him an immature asshole.
Basically, Chris ends the conversation by telling Mark that he did all he could, but Mark’s still technically on some sort of probation for who knows how long.
After that, naturally, Mark’s first call doesn’t go too well-he’s still full of pent-up anxiety and undue stress thanks to this added pressure of having to behave for the technically- ( ... )
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