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Very much did in the sense that I literally do not know where my job is at the moment. But, for the time being I haven't been let go because nobody else including the store owner knows where it is either.

So, I don't wanna risk doxxing myself by posting pictures but goddamn am I tempted because this is not a believable event. This is a cartoon problem. For looneytoons.

But yeah, so, I work(ed?) at a kiosk selling boba tea, right? Freestanding kiosk in the mall with full water and electrical hookups and multiple fridges and sinks and a mini kitchen and the works. Fully functional tea shop. Very important to note that it was there last night, The work chat was discussing another issue last night at closing time. I'll get back to this.

It's been showing signs of being on the way out with how business is being handled lately and I've been considering other options, which is probably why I'm not as torn up about this as I should be, but maybe it just hasn't set in yet, but that's not the point. The point is there's been a lot of shit breaking and not being replaced and nobody mentioning anything about it until I walk into work in the morning and have to figure out why shit like the fucking cash register isn't there today. So I'm kinda used to having to ask questions about big things that nobody bothered to update me on. I was out for two weeks recovering from a surgery, so I came to work this morning assuming there'd be some kind of bullshit, yeah?

So, the question I had to ask the chat this morning was:

Not a text I ever thought I'd have to send in sincerity, but there it is. Because what I found instead was a fenced off patch of discolored tiles and a few holes in the floor where my entire place of employment used to be.

And the answer? Nobody knows! It was there last night when the mall closed, and every single trace of the structure and all its contents including drink making supplies and our safe and cashbox was gone when it opened again. And when I say nobody knows, I mean everyone from last night's closers to the actual (former?) owner of the store jad no fucking clue about this until getting that text from me this morning. For once I am actually the first to know. 🎉.

So. I guess I didn't so much lose my job as had it stolen. Not by AI, but good old fashioned hands-on human beings picking it up and carrying it away somehow. All mall security would tell me was that they were instructed not to tell me anything and have us contact our management. Who also don't know anything. And later on I came across some construction workers around the gravesite of the kiosk discussing filling in the holes, asked them about it, and was told that they "weren't at liberty to say".

So, not only is my job gone in the most literal physical sense of the word, but it was taken in some kind of super secret kiosk extraction in the dead of night without any warning or witnesses and nobody is allowed to speak of it. The store owner said she was gonna figure it out 10 hours ago and still no word back.

My mother in law thinks the FBI took it.

Not any of the other stores around the state. Just the one little kiosk.

Why? Because she loves a conspiracy and is just a little bit extra.

Also because she was around for the massive crackdown on Yakuza-owned businesses in Waikiki (in her homestate) that did actually involve the FBI seizing stores (no confirmation of making kiosks cleanly disappear in the middle of the night though).

Still no word from my job on what's actually going on, but the most likely theory so far is that maybe the kiosk was on lease and got repossessed? The mystery continues

According to the owner, based on what she's been able to find out, the kiosk was not removed legally and they're starting a potentially long process of legal action. I hope she gets to sue the shit out of whoever did it but for now at least I know for sure I'm unemployed.

Really hoping for more details in terms of who/why/how, so I'll keep updating if I learn anything.

For now the summary is: An unnamed entity that is most likely mall management (on account of mall security cooperating with them) stole an entire kiosk and all the contents including money and machinery with barely a trace in the middle of the night grinch-style, with zero warning or explanation, and ensured the silence of both security and the construction crew, in an action that was definitely preplanned and illegal, and as far as I know nobody knows its whereabouts.

Enjoy the unintentionally funniest text I've ever sent in my life

Aaand a close-up:

HEY HI HELLO THIS ONE'S MY FAVORITE

This is absolutely how it works in Texas

Hunting for some coochie

Wrote a G up on his belt

@scp-1296 you understand me

The universe of Sky Ballet as a whole is incomprehensibly old. So old that in a lot of ways it resembles Swiss cheese more than anything, riddled with holes that lead to other universes or to the void between universes or nowhere at all. So old that it borders on mindbreak horror even for the Transformers themselves and they already have the capability to live to insane lifespans.

We briefly see Optimus’ personal ID and forging date in Sparks and based on that, Cybertronian civilization should have started around 180 million cycles ago, but that’s a bit misleading. 180 million cycles ago was not the start of their civilization; it’s when their last calendar reset happened.

Culture and history ebb and flow and repeat, but there comes a point where keeping all of that old knowledge becomes redundant and irrelevant. In general they tend to do a calendar reset every 250-300 million cycles, because that’s how long Rung usually lives. When the mortal incarnation of Primus dies, the church does a big funerary ceremony, enter a few centuries of mourning period (this would be considered “cycle 0” and doesn’t have a predetermined length as such) until Rung is reborn and they start the calendar anew from cycle 1.

Because of the ungodly timespans involved in their civilization’s history, the mortal Cybertronians don’t tend to keep track of things from past calendar eras all that well. They hold onto records from their current era and maybe the one before, but anything before that? Only Primus knows what went down back then, quite literally.

At the end of an era, as part of the funeral, Primus renders anything and everything capable of storing data inoperable for a few days while he uploads the entire historical database to his own archives. This is what makes the Matrix’s internal archive so special: it’s the only thing in the entire universe that holds all the collected historical data from the entirety of Transformers history. Which is, consequently, why you can’t simply browse the damn thing; you need to know exactly what you are looking for to find literally anything in it.

(As a side note, while Ballet’s Primus is much too “big” and multidimensional to really meaningfully interact with his children and the material universe, having all that comprehensive knowledge + the personal experiences of every Rung who ever lived means that on the rare occasion when he does actively enact his will on the universe through a proxy or another, he has a fairly decent idea how to express his benevolence in ways that won’t misfire horribly for the targets of his love, at least by divine standards. Not to say that he never fucked up before, but who hasn’t turned an entire colony of thousands into sparkeaters by trying to fix a much less harmful coding error in the population before, right?)

The age of the universe has some other consequences as well; some parts of it are looping, other parts are looping sometimes… any kind of metaphysical bullshit you can imagine can happen in Ballet’s universe. Universes like to coil up and loop in on themselves, metaphorically speaking, so if something is significant enough to leave an imprint on the fabric of the universe itself, then it will likely repeat in a different era. It’s entirely possible that almost the same civil war plays out with almost the same people every couple of eras, their history just literally doesn't go back far enough to document it.

(This is also why, while Primus is devastated over Unicron’s death and is expected to be in mourning for the foreseeable uuuuh forever probably, there was no divine repercussion for them killing a capital G God. This has happened before and it’s only a matter of time before Unicron pops back into existence eventually—although being “killed” definitely put him out of commission for a couple of eras at least.)

This also opens up the possibility of other shenanigans, like some degree of foresight/future sight: if someone happens to get glimpses of a past era where things were similar enough, they might be able to make guesses about how things would progress in their own era, but these visions are never fully reliable because the past era could diverge at literally any point and lead to a different outcome.

The universe of Sky Ballet as a whole is incomprehensibly old. So old that in a lot of ways it resembles Swiss cheese more than anything, riddled with holes that lead to other universes or to the void between universes or nowhere at all. So old that it borders on mindbreak horror even for the Transformers themselves and they already have the capability to live to insane lifespans.

We briefly see Optimus’ personal ID and forging date in Sparks and based on that, Cybertronian civilization should have started around 180 million cycles ago, but that’s a bit misleading. 180 million cycles ago was not the start of their civilization; it’s when their last calendar reset happened.

Culture and history ebb and flow and repeat, but there comes a point where keeping all of that old knowledge becomes redundant and irrelevant. In general they tend to do a calendar reset every 250-300 million cycles, because that’s how long Rung usually lives. When the mortal incarnation of Primus dies, the church does a big funerary ceremony, enter a few centuries of mourning period (this would be considered “cycle 0” and doesn’t have a predetermined length as such) until Rung is reborn and they start the calendar anew from cycle 1.

Because of the ungodly timespans involved in their civilization’s history, the mortal Cybertronians don’t tend to keep track of things from past calendar eras all that well. They hold onto records from their current era and maybe the one before, but anything before that? Only Primus knows what went down back then, quite literally.

At the end of an era, as part of the funeral, Primus renders anything and everything capable of storing data inoperable for a few days while he uploads the entire historical database to his own archives. This is what makes the Matrix’s internal archive so special: it’s the only thing in the entire universe that holds all the collected historical data from the entirety of Transformers history. Which is, consequently, why you can’t simply browse the damn thing; you need to know exactly what you are looking for to find literally anything in it.

(As a side note, while Ballet’s Primus is much too “big” and multidimensional to really meaningfully interact with his children and the material universe, having all that comprehensive knowledge + the personal experiences of every Rung who ever lived means that on the rare occasion when he does actively enact his will on the universe through a proxy or another, he has a fairly decent idea how to express his benevolence in ways that won’t misfire horribly for the targets of his love, at least by divine standards. Not to say that he never fucked up before, but who hasn’t turned an entire colony of thousands into sparkeaters by trying to fix a much less harmful coding error in the population before, right?)

The age of the universe has some other consequences as well; some parts of it are looping, other parts are looping sometimes… any kind of metaphysical bullshit you can imagine can happen in Ballet’s universe. Universes like to coil up and loop in on themselves, metaphorically speaking, so if something is significant enough to leave an imprint on the fabric of the universe itself, then it will likely repeat in a different era. It’s entirely possible that almost the same civil war plays out with almost the same people every couple of eras, their history just literally doesn't go back far enough to document it.

(This is also why, while Primus is devastated over Unicron’s death and is expected to be in mourning for the foreseeable uuuuh forever probably, there was no divine repercussion for them killing a capital G God. This has happened before and it’s only a matter of time before Unicron pops back into existence eventually—although being “killed” definitely put him out of commission for a couple of eras at least.)

This also opens up the possibility of other shenanigans, like some degree of foresight/future sight: if someone happens to get glimpses of a past era where things were similar enough, they might be able to make guesses about how things would progress in their own era, but these visions are never fully reliable because the past era could diverge at literally any point and lead to a different outcome.