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	'title' => 'A day of respite',
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<h2 id="advertisements">Unsponsored advertisements</h2>
<p>
	<a href="http://marcwithac.com/">Marc With a C</a> has released a new one-song <del>cover</del> album, <a href="https://marcwithac.bandcamp.com/album/all-i-want-for-christmas">All I Want For Christmas</a>.
	If you&apos;re into Christmas music, maybe you&apos;ll enjoy it.
</p>
<p>
	<ins>EDIT: Oops, it&apos;s not the song that I thought that it was.
	I highly doubt that it&apos;s a cover song, I think that Marc wrote it themself.
	It&apos;s not exactly safe for work though, and it&apos;s not really my type of song, but if it&apos;s what you&apos;re into, maybe you&apos;ll like it.</ins>
</p>
<h2 id="general">General news</h2>
<p>
	I should have gotten a lot of coursework done today, but I kind of took it easy today.
	It turns out that I needed a break more than I thought, and not having anyone at home was fantastic.
	I did get some coursework done though.
</p>
<p>
	It was a slow day at work.
	Only two people had the day off, but I can&apos;t help but wonder <strong>*why only two*</strong>? Don&apos;t get me wrong, I&apos;m happy to get the extra hours, I don&apos;t mind the slow shift, and I&apos;m outright enthusiastic to have been able to use this shift to get out of celebrating the holidays.
	Still, the store would have made more profit with less employees on the clock, and several employees were outright bored because business was so slow.
</p>
<p>
	My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
</p>
<h2 id="university">University life</h2>
<p>
	I completed my <a href="/en/coursework/BUS1101/Three_types_of_organizational_structures.xhtml">essay</a> for the week, although I didn&apos;t finish reading the assigned chapter as I had planned.
	However, I did read through the next section, which was enough to get my initial discussion post submitted:
</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
	I don&apos;t have a whole lot of personal experience to draw off of for this question.
	I&apos;ve only been employed by two companies, and I was only a temporary working in one of them.
	I was there for about two weeks to help them meet their deadline on a large, unexpected order, then they were done with me.
	In the other company, a fast food pizza restaurant, change happens incredibly slowly.
	We get new menu items for a few months before discontinuing them again, but that&apos;s the extent of most of the change that we see.
	I moved out of town for a while though, and just before I was rehired, a bigger changed happened that has seen some resistance.
</p>
<p>
	We have a drive-though window, and we used to take orders directly through the window.
	There was nothing particularly wrong with this system, and it worked well for probably over a decade.
	However, when I got back, I found that we&apos;d fixed our old, broken menu board and were now taking orders through that using headsets.
	This was likely caused by our increase in our number of customers.
	The rise in total customers has lead to more customers come through our drive-though lane, so in order to keep wait times tolerable, it&apos;s helpful to be able to begin taking one customer&apos;s order before the previous one has pulled away yet.
	Thus, the need for the working menu board.
</p>
<p>
	Most of our employees still grumble about the change; they don&apos;t like the headsets at all.
	The headsets make it difficult to hear our coworkers and depending on the volume and pitch of the vehicular motors, difficult to hear customers.
	No one seems to like to work the drive-through window any more.
	I think that I might be the only one that doesn&apos;t put up a stink about it; the drive-through window is still the best place to work in the entire store, so I jump at the opportunity to be stationed there.
</p>
<p>
	Our employees aren&apos;t the only ones resisting the change.
	Many customers also refuse to use the menu board, pulling right past it and right to the window.
	When they do that, it only makes our job more difficult too, because we&apos;re then dealing both with the customer at the window and the one at the menu board.
	As I said before, the headsets make it difficult to hear our coworkers, as they seal off one of our ears from outside noise.
	This same effect happens when dealing with customers directly at the window, but is compounded by the fact that the ear covered is the only one facing the window.
</p>
</blockquote>
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