[Jayden would argue that doing so would be counterproductive for most people, but that really would be pedantic, so he keeps it to himself. Instead, he offers a more casual--]
[Playground brawling. Student relationships. Workplace politics. Petitioning for funding at social events at dusk, escaping from office parties at night.]
So do I, but every so often you end up in a really weird office.
[He hates working with police; sometimes the individual officers are okay, but police departments overall are just so strange and the one he'd dealt with recently had been a great example of that.]
[There is something pleasant about this conversation - to have someone hanging on his words without trying to provoke him. It gives his lilt a bit of patter.]
Well, I have. There was a bitter dispute about exchanging shifts so amazingly I resolved it by denying each their holiday. What is that saying? Work is like prison?
[This conversation is stupid but at least it's not bad-stupid, just ridiculous. He could make it more so by mentioning he now has a power that lets him summon water, and also an enchanted canteen that the does the same, but he feels like he'll just keep that info to himself.]
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Date: 2023-07-05 09:39 pm (UTC)Well, doing so would be counterproductive for a man interested in keeping things on the level.
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Date: 2023-07-06 12:41 am (UTC)I was never really one for politics anyway.
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Date: 2023-07-06 12:54 am (UTC)[Playground brawling. Student relationships. Workplace politics. Petitioning for funding at social events at dusk, escaping from office parties at night.]
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Date: 2023-07-06 01:59 am (UTC)[Because they're different, but also in so many ways the same.]
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Date: 2023-07-06 02:04 am (UTC)Is there a difference?
[Of course there is: he's joking and his tone makes that clear.]
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Date: 2023-07-06 02:54 am (UTC)[At least in politics-politics you go into it willingly; office politics aren't actually necessary and that makes them worse.]
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Date: 2023-07-06 02:59 am (UTC)[He just sometimes - you know - makes bold decisions.]
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Date: 2023-07-06 03:05 am (UTC)[He hates working with police; sometimes the individual officers are okay, but police departments overall are just so strange and the one he'd dealt with recently had been a great example of that.]
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Date: 2023-07-06 03:08 am (UTC)[Life is a game! But what's the meaning of playing if you can't have a little bit of fun?]
Or not. We are discussing politics, after all.
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Date: 2023-07-06 03:13 am (UTC)[Although he does have to add--]
I can say I've never personally seen office politics lead to jail time. Unfortunately.
[Because there's definitely on instance he's thinking that should have, but overall that is an outlier.]
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Date: 2023-07-06 03:18 am (UTC)Well, I have. There was a bitter dispute about exchanging shifts so amazingly I resolved it by denying each their holiday. What is that saying? Work is like prison?
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Date: 2023-07-06 03:30 am (UTC)[Especially with Crane in charge, it seems, though ultimately the anecdote isn't exactly that serious. Besides, as far as bad bosses go--]
Sure felt like it at the last police station I worked a case with, which is fitting, I guess.
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Date: 2023-07-06 03:33 am (UTC)Ah, well it would have to be, wouldn't it?
[Cause, you know, police stations have jail cells, eyyyy.]
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Date: 2023-07-06 03:35 am (UTC)[So really, what can you expect?]
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Date: 2023-07-06 03:38 am (UTC)Well, nobody likes Philadelphia.
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Date: 2023-07-06 03:54 am (UTC)[He will bitch about Philadelphia as long as he can get away with it.]
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Date: 2023-07-06 04:01 am (UTC)[Can he exile Blake to Philadelphia?]
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Date: 2023-07-06 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-06 04:09 am (UTC)[Stop being a negative noodle, Norman!]
Did it soak you through as well?
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Date: 2023-07-06 04:17 am (UTC)[Of course he got soaked during his time in Philadelphia. >:c]
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Date: 2023-07-06 04:23 am (UTC)Glad to hear it. Just try not to die of thirst.
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Date: 2023-07-06 04:36 am (UTC)[This conversation is stupid but at least it's not bad-stupid, just ridiculous. He could make it more so by mentioning he now has a power that lets him summon water, and also an enchanted canteen that the does the same, but he feels like he'll just keep that info to himself.]