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[ The video feed cuts on to the image of someone's foot in a sneaker, then it cuts off again, it's dark for a second before cutting back onto the same image, and after a couple seconds of the foot wiggling back and forth to the rhythm of some song no one on the network can actually hear the video portion cuts back off again.

Finally a voice can be heard, and it sounds a little dazed and in awe. ]

That was the last one.

[ And without any clarification he's moving right along to the next topic at hand. ]

Hey, do people not like to fire anyone that isn't from around here? I didn't go to my job for two weeks after that shitty party at the university, but they still haven't fired me. My old boss probably wouldn't have fired me either, but he would have gotten really angry at me, and I kind of always thought if you weren't a local mostly people wanted to get rid of you as fast as possible.

I don't actually like the job anyway, so it would have been fine if they fired me. But then I don't have anything else lined up, and they gave me a house to live in and money, but I don't actually know if you get to keep those if you stop working. I didn't go to work for a month before I ended up here by accident, but it wasn't because I didn't want to work, it was because I couldn't find my boss. And he paid for my apartment, so I'm pretty sure that I'm going to lose that soon too, since I haven't paid the rent this month, and I don't really want to go sleep in a public saunas, but maybe it'd be better than not sleeping in one, because at least they have mats for you to sleep on and a roof. Only I don't know how long I'd even be able to pay for that...

[ He trails off like he lost his train of thought there, which honestly he probably did.

After a few seconds of heavy silence he decides to cut to the chase and end this rambling stream of consciousness with what's really eating at him right now. ]

I don't actually want to be here.

[ The rest of his ramble was pretty loud and animated, this last sentence is said a lot softer in a flat tone. What he wants people to do about it is anyone's guess, since it's not like people can just take him home. He's already been told as much. ]

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It's just a little bit!

Yeah, but it was mine. Shouldn't you just buy your own with your discount coupons?

But it wasn't yours either!

[ !! ]

Oh... yeah.

It's not a big deal. People who can afford to order can buy more... they don't leave very good tips, too.

They don't? Isn't that what you're supposed to do for jobs like that though?

[ A low groan. ]

All I know is it's set to a certain percent and many people don't tip well or at all.

[ As if she tips well herself, though. ]

I don't think I ever want a job like that then.

Discounted food is nice... but I never knew working with food could be so hard at times.

Most work seems like it's too hard and too boring to do.

I like the job I have now. Animals are fun to work with.

That might not be so bad actually... what do you do at an animal shelter?

[ Here he is imagining petting cats and playing with dogs all day. Probably not the full story. ]

A lot of things, like walking the dogs, grooming them, helping administer them their vaccinations, helping with their adoption process.

I don't know about most of that, but walking dogs sounds like it'd be fun. Do you get to play with them too?

All the time! It's honestly the best thing I do at my job.

I want to pet dogs and play with them as a job.

[ Maybe not all that other stuff though. ]

How did you get it?

My friend told me to apply there and that's what I did.

[ Nothing complicated at all. ]

So I should just apply for a bunch of animal shelters, and I can mostly feed dogs as a job?

[ Is that what he got out of thi-- Yeah... yeah it is. ]

Uh... I guess so! You might not work with dogs all the time, just to let you know. Who knows! Maybe you'll be better with cats or the exotic pets like guinea pigs and rats.