#intern day

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HAPPY NATIONAL INTERN DAY!!! National Intern Day on the last Thursday in July recognizes all the college graduates testing the professional waters across the country. 

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How do I ask someone what they look like under their glamour without sounding like a total knob?

I'm gonna be honest, unless you have a close personal relationship with them, its probably not doable. It's sort of like asking someone what's in their pants: why do you feel entitled to that information if you aren't going to see them without their pants/glamour?

I understand the curiosity, of course, but at the end of the day, it's polite to leave people's personal affairs private.

And oftentimes, it's not nearly as interesting as you're imagining.

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Hey! Norm here. We're g g g gonna stop for todayyyyyyyy

we did the best we could we did the best we could we did the best we could

Jenny's had a long dddddd day and we're gonna wrap it up here.

we had to. we had to. i gave up everything for it

Hope y y y y you enjoyed!

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Do the vending machines in the office have a diverse cast of foods or is it like, human chips and candy only.

Most of what we have on campus are run by third party companies, so they tend to be stocked with human food; occasionally you'll get more exotic stuff like bee larva. The best vending machine on the campus is over by Archival, it's got full size candy bars.

There's a couple machines stocked by extranormal companies, but those are mostly hot meal dispensers and are over by the cafeteria.

Some of the extranormal folks have interesting ways of combining their food. Mr. Leraje from Accounting puts skittles and starburst into his mashed potatoes and then douses the whole thing with gravy and red sauce. Claims it tastes "just like a big city lawyer."

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For Jenny: what did you name the jabberwock?

His name is Frumious, and he's very sweet! He's curled up around Norm right now, and while Norm's acting all annoyed, I can tell the big softie is actually loving the attention.

We've got a tank with a dark light and substrate set up for him, and he seems very happy; we did what we could to emulate a gloaming wood.

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For Jenny - is there an organization in charge of training humans to unlearn their unconscious biases in regards to non-human entities? I notice that Norm is particularly tolerant and accepting of many non-humans, but I can't imagine that's the norm for newer recruits.

Well, for one thing, that's kind of what we're trying to do here in the Social Media/Public relations office!

Other than that, new hires to the OPN of every stripe, human or non-human, receive basic sensitivity training and are pretty heavily screened to, you know, make sure they don't hold any kind of "humans first" viewpoints. Most folks who work here are either in the community in some way or have had enough extranormal experiences that they've been desensitized to the basic knee jerk fight-or-flight response.

It's definitely a two-way street here, though. Some non-humans allegedly give of a kind of "uncanny valley" vibe that the average human brain has trouble processing. Others are completely incomprehensible to the human mind. That's why we have the glamours; it keeps those things from impacting the human element of our work force, and it's a basic sign of respect to not make your coworkers pee themselves in fear.

All that to say, in answer to your actual question: UnHuman Resources does its best, but at the end of the day, acceptance is a process, and we all respect one another here and do things on both the human and non-human end to minimize friction!

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For Jenny: How much of the office is non-normal, percentage wise? And how many are non-human? Is it a safe work environment for non-normal people?

Ballpark, I'd say about a quarter of us at the office are extranormal in some way, with a little over half of the extranormal folks being fully non-human.

I've found the Office to be a super safe place to work, I've never been discriminated against or felt disrespected working here. It's probably one of the safest career options for folks like me, I couldn't exactly get a job at, say, Target, without a significantly stronger (and more expensive) glamour than the one I have.

Side note, I'm not a huge fan of the term "non-normal." I know it still has a lot of circulation in some academic circles, but it always struck me as a little myopic. We are normal, for our species, that species just happens to not be human!