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My Dear Princess and Dear Fellow,

I tried to do as little as possible with work today. I've been really busy lately and I was just tired. So I farted about with spreadsheets and oh fu-

EMERGENCY MEETING

There's a "showstopper". Apparently. 

Actually it is nothing of the sort. It's a feature that it has been determined is VITAL having never come up before. 

There was a bit of an attempt to blame people but honestly, this is well outside the scope of what we were originally trying to do. What has happened was, we've done it TOO WELL and now they'd like the system to do MORE.

I have no issue with this. The point is that we are TWO EFFING WEEKS away from the end of the project. Also from the end of my contract.

BUT

VITAL

So anyway, after a day of being super-helpful and nice and honestly patting hands and reassuring people and DOING FAR MORE WORK THAN I HAD PLANNED FOR EFF'S SAKE, I get a Teams message:

DO YOU THINK YOU CAN FIT THIS IN BEFORE YOU GO?

I said mmmmmaybe sorta probably not but hard to say because no idea what they are planning to do yet.

WOULD YOU CONSIDER AN EXTENSION IF WE CAN FIND SOMEONE TO PAY FOR YOU?

I think it would just be a short extension. Maybe a matter of weeks. Plus, there's that big "if" that they would need someone to agree to pay for me.

I do not come cheap.

Anyway. I was SUPER-NICE AND HELPFUL because MONEY. 

So I'm not sure what the situation will be on Monday. Will I get the RED FLAG RED FLAG job? Or did I manage to sabotage myself by making myself sound too big and important? Will someone agree to pay for me to stay on? For how long? 

I told the FOBs.

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Replied Briar.

Yes, that is what I thought too.

The FOBs are now manifesting an extension for me. Caro just laughed.

WHAT

S.