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    Over the course of his employment at the Magnus Institute, Martin learns several things about sirens. They do not sing so much as make you see and hear what they know will affect you deeply. They can know you to the core with just a look. They can appear remarkably human.

    They can be deceptively easy to fall in love with.

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    19 Jun 2024

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    Martin Blackwood takes a job as an assistant librarian as a means of paying his way to a Master's degree. His plan is to keep his head down, his grades up, and to stay far, far away from his university's creepy lineup of secret societies until he graduates. His plans had not taken into account Jonathan Sims.

    (Martin is an overworked graduate student. Jon's friend is missing. Somehow, they meet in the middle.)

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    19 Jun 2024

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    What happens if the Magnus Institute gets a Data Protection Officer? What's it like to work in Tech Support? How are employee reviews conducted when your manager is Peter Lukas? This series does its best to answers these sorts of hard-hitting questions about office life at the Institute.

    S3-S4 era, no s5 spoilers, and yes you can pretend everything ends 5 minutes into MAG160.

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    06 Jun 2024

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    As a fisherman working under Captain Lukas, Martin has learned to keep his head down and fade into the mist. He does his work, walks further down the path Peter has laid before him, and if members of the crew occasionally disappear, Martin has learned not to ask about them. Has learned to stop caring at all.

    At least until the crew pull up something strange and wonderful and impossible, tangled in one of the fishing nets. Something that Peter means ill.

    No, Martin doesn't... care. But maybe he can save it. Maybe they can save each other.

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    05 Jun 2024

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    I've recently been unexpectedly promoted to lead a department in my organisation, wrote the anonymous emailer.

     

    As there was no one working here when I arrived, my manager, who is head of the organisation, had promised me the choice of my own assistants. However, without warning, he simply presented me with an additional assistant. This new assistant’s first act on his first day was to let a dog into the office. It took several hours to catch and clean up after this dog and it has only been downhill from there. I admit I'm not entirely sure what to do with this assistant now I'm stuck with him. I'm hoping you have some advice?

     

    Kind regards,
    New Manager

    Abigail Bailey runs a successful management advice blog. One frequent contributor is from a workplace with some... issues.

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    03 Jun 2024

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