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[thechieflibrarian]

Hello there, it has been… a week. (Yes I know, it’s only Thursday.)

Tom and Sarah are fairly alright; Tom got bitten, but Marvin improvised with a corkscrew he had lying around. I’ll spare you the details.

Marvin won’t leave the Library anymore, and I can’t say I blame him. The thing followed him from Archway to his home, it’s not too far-fetched to think it would find our workplace.

Things are a bit better at work, now. Tom and Sarah are the ones who go on site for research, Marvin and I stay back for documentation research and compiling. Bar the one time where Marvin was going around in his pants, it’s been alright. (Marvin absorbs information remarkably fast and I am starting to think the parapsychology course he took was garbage- his referencing is fine now.)

I’d like to take you up on those wards, please. I don’t trust that our boss will do anything to protect us from danger we met while doing our job, so I will take anything that will make us even a little bit safer. Thank you.

In the mean time, all we can do is… keep doing our job, I suppose.

I will need a second cot…

How do I check in with my coworker who's been off for a week and being weird?

My coworker Marvin has been off work for a week. He says it's a stomach bug, but he's also refusing to let us (or rather, his two actual friends from work) visit him with full care to avoid contagion and help him with basic necessities while he is down.

I wish to respect his boundaries (especially since we are not on the best of terms), but I am also increasingly worried, especially since most of his messages have been short, blunt, and uncharacteristically cold (read: borderline dismissive).

Is there a way to pass along some care to him / make sure he is safe?

[thechieflibrarian]

Apologies for the abrupt end, apparently Tom and Sarah took the matter in their own hands and barged into Marvin’s flat on their own.

For the better. Remember that worm lady? She had. Besieged his front door. With worms. For a week and a half.

She had his phone.

She had his phone and we never even thought that it was not Marvin on the other end of the line. No wonder he would not pick up calls… I imagine not having a sound box because it has been eATEN BY WORMS is not great for having a verbal exchange.

Sorry. I am quite rattled. I will need to process all of this sometime soon.

Marvin now lives in the, uh- storages? Room? Of the library. I have some camping gear in there I use when I work late and figured he needs it more than I do. He will be safe from worms, at least.

I am going to… have a kip, I think.

How do I check in with my coworker who's been off for a week and being weird?

My coworker Marvin has been off work for a week. He says it's a stomach bug, but he's also refusing to let us (or rather, his two actual friends from work) visit him with full care to avoid contagion and help him with basic necessities while he is down.

I wish to respect his boundaries (especially since we are not on the best of terms), but I am also increasingly worried, especially since most of his messages have been short, blunt, and uncharacteristically cold (read: borderline dismissive).

Is there a way to pass along some care to him / make sure he is safe?

[thechieflibrarian]

See, I would actually take your advice and I have experience picking locks. But.

I have… been less than cordial to Marvin in the past and fear he might take actual offence to my bargain at his workplace.

I will bring it up with Sarah and Tom and see if they are amenable to. Breaking Marvin’s door.

(Do you think I could pass it off as in-situ inv—)

How do I check in with my coworker who's been off for a week and being weird?

My coworker Marvin has been off work for a week. He says it's a stomach bug, but he's also refusing to let us (or rather, his two actual friends from work) visit him with full care to avoid contagion and help him with basic necessities while he is down.

I wish to respect his boundaries (especially since we are not on the best of terms), but I am also increasingly worried, especially since most of his messages have been short, blunt, and uncharacteristically cold (read: borderline dismissive).

Is there a way to pass along some care to him / make sure he is safe?

[thechieflibrarian]

I am a librarian. The rest of the reasoning follows.

Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

[thechieflibrarian]

How do I check in with my coworker who's been off for a week and being weird?

My coworker Marvin has been off work for a week. He says it's a stomach bug, but he's also refusing to let us (or rather, his two actual friends from work) visit him with full care to avoid contagion and help him with basic necessities while he is down.

I wish to respect his boundaries (especially since we are not on the best of terms), but I am also increasingly worried, especially since most of his messages have been short, blunt, and uncharacteristically cold (read: borderline dismissive).

Is there a way to pass along some care to him / make sure he is safe?

[thechieflibrarian]

(Have you considered having Reginald punted in while holding the key? Just saying. Sounds likely that he’s slip into Nowhere.)

@thechieflibrarian I think we found one of your Leitners, cuz one of my underlings read a book cuz he was bored...and now we have random-ass doors to nowhere showing up and trying to eat people all over the warehouse. Nothing's eaten anyone YET, but with these idiots it's only a matter of time before they start throwing artifacts through to see what happens.

I have NOT had enough caffeine to deal with this today....

[thechieflibrarian]

Well at least it sounds like your doors are appearing and not moving around. That is a good thing, at least.

I confirm we do not work for the same establishment, though I suspect you might be at one of our sister locations. My heartfelt condolences for being on the artefact collection team. That is... not a position I would wish on anyone. Except maybe Marvin? Who tries to be nice but is mostly very incompetent. He'd come back out of there with a bit more respect for the importance of good bloody references.

(If he tries to deflect with another cup of tea I swear-)

I only found two references to doors in our catalogue so far. One dating back to 1999 (it appears to be utter bogus) and one in 1924 which seems more... pertinent, but terribly difficult to research on account of being almost a century old. It did mention something about:

Doors

Nowhere

Keys

Have you had any object resembling a key associated with the Leitner? I would suggest trying to lock one of the doors (then the rest of them if it works), and the statement mentions throwing it into the Nowhere but I am not sure how far I trust that considering it would mean not getting the key back.

Either way, please keep me informed as much as you can without breaching confidentiality? I have a vested interest in such phenomenons, and I would also appreciate getting proof of life from you.

@thechieflibrarian I think we found one of your Leitners, cuz one of my underlings read a book cuz he was bored...and now we have random-ass doors to nowhere showing up and trying to eat people all over the warehouse. Nothing's eaten anyone YET, but with these idiots it's only a matter of time before they start throwing artifacts through to see what happens.

I have NOT had enough caffeine to deal with this today....

[thechieflibrarian]

What do you mean my Leitners. I don't have any Leitners. I aggressively send them to the relevant department's team, I'd rather keep my coworkers safe. Also, you mentioned Artefacts, and I'm getting increasingly worried that we might work for the same... establishment.

What was the Leitner called? I'll check our catalogue to see if we have more information.

(Tell your idiots to simply not open the bloody doors, especially if they're yellow. Better yet, tell them to count the doors.)

@thechieflibrarian I think we found one of your Leitners, cuz one of my underlings read a book cuz he was bored...and now we have random-ass doors to nowhere showing up and trying to eat people all over the warehouse. Nothing's eaten anyone YET, but with these idiots it's only a matter of time before they start throwing artifacts through to see what happens.

I have NOT had enough caffeine to deal with this today....

[thechieflibrarian]

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Tiny forest for your dash

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like there comes a point where you think something is fundamentally wrong with you. and then it turns out it’s just Friday and you haven’t washed your hair in three days and maybe you’re also just a little lonely and the combination of all three of those things is whittling a hole into your chest every time you breathe. but also the sun’s up. and you’ve survived everything so far, so you’ll survive this too, even if it hurts, even if you have to survive it many times.

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I wholeheartedly agree, but do not have anyone else to tag…

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The three Fates having a night off

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I rate this fluffbaby a 5/10 on the Admiral scale.

HEADBUTT STRENGTH OF 10,000 SUNS

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Prof says he'll grade students on a curve, so they organize a boycott of the exams and all get As

Johns Hopkins Computer Science prof Professor Peter Fröhlich grades his students on a curve: the highest score on the final gets an A and everyone else is graded accordingly.

Clever students in Fröhlich’s “Intermediate Programming”, ��Computer System Fundamentals,” and “Introduction to Programming for Scientists and Engineers” figured out that this meant that if they all boycotted the exam, they’d all get As.

So they organized a boycott, milling around the hall outside the class where the exams were being sat, sternly reminding each other that if no one sat the exam they’d all get straight As, ignoring Fröhlich’s pleas to come and sit the exam.

Fröhlich praised his students’ solidarity: “The students learned that by coming together, they can achieve something that individually they could never have done. At a school that is known (perhaps unjustly) for competitiveness I didn’t expect that reaching such an agreement was possible.”

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/24/hang-together-or-hang-separate-2.html