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Look at this gremlin we found on the basement

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tips and tricks on writing the kaibacorp environment

yes, this is pedantic. but more than that, YES i love small background details that lend a greater sense of accuracy and structure to a fictional world. this is not a complete or exhaustive list. (you are, of course, free to ignore and do whatever you want.)

Kaiba Corporation does not have "clients" - Kaiba doesn't do project work for hire; he's not an attorney or a consultant or an architect, he doesn't do billable hours. his meetings are most likely with his investors or business partners like Pegasus, with his board or c-suite executives (e.g., his chief technology officer, his chief legal officer, his chief human resources officer, etc.), various departmental meetings he might find interesting, and so on. Kaiba Corporation does have customers (the people who BUY the duel disk)/consumers (the people who USE the duel disk) but people who go to Kaiba Land will probably be referred to as visitors or guests. his primary responsibility, as the CEO of a publicly-traded corporation, is creating (financial) value for his shareholders and investors. (whether or not he gives a fuck about this responsibility is up to you.) .

Unless it's something he is responsible for, like quarterly earnings calls and shareholder calls, Kaiba doesn't have to finish or work on reports; he has very few deadlines he himself has to meet; he is not reviewing anything except the most important documents. Even then, as the CEO/president, someone is probably writing the most important documents FOR him and then handing it over for him to present or read off later - which he might revise/adjust as he likes. Kaiba's workdays most likely consist mainly of meetings where people report on how things are going to him, setting business strategy with the c-suite, meeting with the more heavy-hitting investors (for the drama: 'we will withdraw our investments unless you do X,') and writing a bajillion emails. .

Kaiba and Mokuba do not do any hiring or interviewing except for c-suite positions, because those are the people they work with most directly every day, and the people they most need to know are capable, qualified, and competent. they are way too busy to sit down with each one of the 38783 entry-level candidates Kaiba Corp combs through every day. for positions like their executive assistants or chief of staff, who might manage day-to-day schedules and do things like order lunch, an HR manager narrows the field to several qualified candidates and THEN Kaiba would make the final decision on who he wants to hire. .

No one is getting past the front desk at a place like Kaiba Corp without an appointment or a badge. Any given visitor X has to check in at the front desk - the front desk receptionist will look them up in the appointment register, give them a badge, and then let them through. For the c-suite level, or anywhere Kaiba takes his most important/official meetings (like his own office), there might be a second lobby/second desk controlling access. .

Some important dates on Kaiba's and Mokuba's calendars, when the pressure is on and they might be working much harder than usual (for the stress and the drama): - end of quarter/EOQ (4x a year) - end of fiscal year/EOFY. may not be aligned with calendar year - for example, the end of fiscal year might be march 30 - quarterly earnings call (4x a year) - yearly earnings call. Kaiba himself, or someone very high up, like a c-suite exec or a VP, will lead these calls - for things like duel disks, the months leading up to the holiday retail season (when they're preparing for greater demand on consumer product goods) and the holiday retail season itself - for things like Kaiba Land, the summer vacation season, but largely dependent on where their parks ARE (southern california when the weather is nice year-round? tokyo when you have colder weather in the winter and slightly lower attendance? etc.) .

VERY IMPORTANT: Kaiba has an office minifridge. imagine whatever you want in here. his executive assistants or office managers will keep this well-stocked. .

Kaiba, or Mokuba, might lead the quarterly "all-hands meeting" - which is an internal meeting for all employees. for a place like kaibacorp, which KT said has ~2,000 employees, this might be held in a large hall/auditorium. things that might happen at the all-hands meeting: hiring updates (we hired 300 new people in the EMEA region), new mission statements, reiteration of core company values, sharing the company's progress on various OKRs/objectives & key results or key targets (duel disk 2.0 released this year to great acclaim and we made 34.5 billion dollars! suck it nintendo!), public (and potentially anonymous) question-and-answer session at the end, where Kaiba or Mokuba might field employee questions. .

Kaiba or Mokuba might also be responsible for a weekly or monthly all-staff email keeping the entire company apprised of announcements, new partnerships, new business ventures, progress on whatever, new investments, etc. again, someone else (like a marketing manager) might write this for them and send it over for their review/adjustments, but the email officially comes from them. i personally like to imagine Kaiba writes some absolutely bonkers staff emails

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Summary: After Kaiba's dimension ship crash-lands in the ocean, Atem and Kaiba find themselves stranded on a remote tropical island.

Word Count: 82,000 | Chapters: 7/7 | Rating: M | Prideshipping | COMPLETE

Atem snorted in disgust. Frivolous, childish ambition. Maybe Seto was right, and he had no imagination for anything except what he was given. He was happy here - happy to burn, happy to starve, happy to wake up every morning under the same pale, shining sky, like a pearl inside a shell, all the flaws of life glossed away and brilliant with light. Did he even have real dreams? Did he need any? Had Osiris taken them all, and he simply didn’t remember them? He could live without ever riding a bicycle. There were things to master here: fishing and flower crowns. Why couldn’t this be enough? Why couldn’t Seto just accept - ?

No. He’d never. That was what had jolted Atem awake in Aaru, and it was what Atem loved about him, and it was what had almost killed him.

Atem sat on the trunk for a long time, the tide sliding in below the palm like a hand made of water, soothing the sobbing shore.  

The last time he’d left his fate in someone else’s hands, he died. Now he’d left his fate in Seto’s hands, and it was Seto who’d almost slipped away. Without a word of goodbye. So much had happened in silence.

A/N: I HAD SUCH A GOOD TIME WRITING THIS AND IM EXPLODING WITH EXCITEMENT TO FINALLY BE POSTING!! ENJOY!!!! kudos/likes/reblogs/friendly comments are always welcome and appreciated <3 <3 <3

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xmas

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There’s something neat about sitting down and reading someone’s meta for a show you have no intention of watching at length. It’s like hot cocoa. Yes, please tell me the true meaning of this multiseason TV show I’ve seen 1.5 episodes of. I’ll happily take all the spoilers to watch the care and joy people put into dissecting media.

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No recent SCP has enchanted me like SCP-4723 and yet there's NO art of it

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Elon Musk lands on Mars and steps out of his spaceship

“It’s a small step for a man, but a giant leap for mankind,” says ground control officer and cuts off all communications.

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Lots of cultures do some kind of holiday or festival around early winter, so reblog with your favorite thing you or your family do!

I’ll start: my family always makes yam gratin with cream and gruyere and it’s super delicious. Also, since we live in Texas and most years it’s not really cold enough for sweaters on xmas, I have a t-shirt with super dorky cats on it that says “Meowy Christmas.” And we play christmas music almost nonstop–I think the unofficial reason is to keep dark and depression away, but also those carols be bangin’.

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Cassian smiling in Andor is… EVERYTHING I WILL EVER NEED…

It’s all in those eyes… they’re ripping my insights apart…

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What I love about Andor is how brilliantly it turns the logic of pretty much the entire rest of Star Wars on its head. Like, Star Wars, famously, is a story about hope. And hope can be a good thing to have; it can keep you going in dark places. But if you place your hope in the wrong thing, it can also become your jailer, and fascists know this.

So the series is about a bunch of people who know that the system is rotten, who know that people in charge of the Empire are evil, but spend much of the time thinking that if they just keep their faces down, things will work out for them in the end. And the reason why that “No more than twelve” line from “Nobody’s Listening” is so good is because it’s the point where Kino Loy finally just abandons all hope that the system can ever work for him, and it’s at that point that liberation actually becomes possible.

It’s just a very, very good series.

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TIL that Billy Crystal’s character, Miracle Max, in the Princess Bride was so funny that it nearly stopped the production of the movie. One actor bruised a rib from clenching to try not to laugh.

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hey. don't cry. ℵ0 natural numbers, ok?

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the bad news is that my mom was sad that her eggplants haven’t been growing; however, it turns out that the reason her eggplants haven’t been growing is because her eggplants were actually spinach. The good news is that her spinach is growing very well. She was also sad that her peppers haven’t been growing either, but it turns out that the peppers were actually eggplant. And I’m happy to report that the eggplant is also growing very well.