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00:58 - Leave of absence detected. Duration of absence: 12 minutes. Authorized: Yes.
00:58 - Message received. Message reads as follows: <You don't have a client yet, so this is fine. Don't make it a habit. -C#54>
<span class="mu-i">Poked head around corner. Found 312 unplugged & monitoring visual feed. 312 says congrats on the mems. Said thank you. Said I have some clarifying questions. For instance I was made aware that O.L.N. prefer correspondents to have definitive or at least strongly implied sexes. Mems do not elaborate further. Said I wasn't sure what that entailed & what the differences were. 312 agreed it was unintuitive. Explained O.L.N. have highly bizarre & inefficient reproductive strategy & sexes exist to facilit...</span> <ERROR: CHARACTER LIMIT REACHED>
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<span class="mu-i">facilitate this strategy. Said the larger ones have a sort of quote 'plunger' & the smaller ones have a sort of quote 'nest,' & that the plunger implants offspring into the nest. The offspring feed on the smaller's blood & nutrients until they are expelled from the nest, but even when expelled, are still unable to fend for themselves. They must be cared for over the course of many <ERROR: IMPERFECT TRANSLATION> decades by the nest & plunger, who find this thankless labor somehow quote 'rewarding.'
I asked what the</span> <ERROR: PROFANITY CENSORED> <span class="mu-i">this had to do with me.
312 said I asked about the differences, & that is the primary difference. Also size, bone density, hair distribution, growth of glands, vocal pitch, socialization, etcetera. Asked if 'sex' affected coloration &/or length of neck. Was told no. Felt more confused. Asked again how this was relevant to correspondence. 312 said it was very important to grasp how O.L.N. function, but that unless I was a quote 'wingnut' I would have no need to assume their appearance, as most clients are satisfied with just the chassis. Felt relieved.
Relief did not last long. 312 said that, despite this, the client will quote 'read into' your vocal pitch. That most of them would not feel comfortable with a sexless voice, because with the chassis' processing it is percieved as quote 'mechanical.' Thus it is important to select a sex early on anyhow, to enhance quote 'trustworthiness.' The advanced technique was to select it based on the client. Some are better persuaded by the matching sex. Others by the opposite sex. But maybe for somebody freshly off the cycle and the mems I better just pick something.
Asked what sex 312 was. 312 said female.
Asked if I could switch later if I didn't like it. 312 said that wasn't advisable for the same client. Too confusing. If reassigned after a semi-cycle, maybe, but almost everybody gets too attached.
Said I wouldn't get attached.
312 said quote 'ha.'
Returned to desk.</span>
01:10 - Program accessed: account313_423712509
01:13 - Account updated.
<span class="mu-i">Thought about it. Thought I should just pick something so I wouldn't waste time fretting. Still spent too long.</span>
