You Know You’re About To….

You know you’re about to get laid off when –

1) Your job duties consist entirely of printing stuff out for your boss

2) Everyone shows up around 11 and leaves before 3

3) The accounting girls go missing

4) No more Friday doughnuts

5) You’ve begun tracking your internet usage in Excel

6) Your boss comes in to announce he just got past level 8 of Tetris

7) You become increasingly irritated about those blocked internet sites

8) You’ve checked your private e-mail account 343 times in 4 hours

9) When meetings are actually held, they are more often than not closed-door

10) Your e-mail banter with co-workers becomes increasingly infantile

11) You begin color-coding all of your file folders

12) You’ve caught up on all your clips of The Daily Show

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These Savage Stars

Killing Eve meets Die Hard in this explosive science fiction thriller by the Hugo Award-winning author of The Light Brigade.

Hurley returns to the biogothic space opera universe of her cult classic The Stars are Legion for a riveting novel of obsession, betrayal, and ruinous choices.

Dragged out of retirement for one last job, former spy Rekha must board a dying worldship to hunt down an assassin she thought she killed twenty years ago. She has forty-one hours to do it, or the ship becomes their tomb.

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