User:Handle2/Arendtcore Employee Package Excerpts

Introduction

This page contains declassified and publicly available random snippets of info as provided in the Employee Packages to all new Employees of Arendtcore Minnesota and its subsidiaries. It does not include any data that is still considered company secrets or that requires specifically contacting Arendtcore staff members or gaining specific internal company clearances as noted in the original documents. To reduce size, most items are transcribed as text and only photos or pictures relevant to the interests of FembotWiki and not infringing on site rules are made available.

Newbie Employee Package

Housing Programme

An Arendtcore Employee should not be homeless or sleeping in the back of their jalopy except during camping trips or long drives through places with problematic access to proper accomodation. The Company also believes that a proper home can forge deeper ties between an Employee and the Company and Little Sanctuary community As such Arendtcore Minnesota provides free housing to all employees of the company or its subsidiaries (at any level of importance or job level). The following conditions must be met to access the Housing Programme. Failure to do so will result in a probationary period to gain eligibility to the Housing programme or a valid waiver to access the Housing Programme without meeting its requirements, followed by retrenchment and exile from the Little Sanctuary corporate region.

1. 2 Adults in Consenting Relationship of any close nature, or - The company will accept at least two consenting adults in a relationship as valid for participation in Arendtcore Housing. The main holder MUST be a Arendtcore employee, but the other adult can be either another Arendtcore employee with proof of committment of at least 2 years to a proper relationship with said adult such as boyfriend/girlfriend pairings or marriages. Children cannot be counted for the purpose of this clause, but will be taken into account when assigning housing as another member of said relationship.
2. Bunk with at least one Familes Programme - provided unit. - in the event that there is only one adult in a housing unit and no other adult is available to form a relationship, the Company will require you to accept at least one Spousal unit matching your sexual preferences and Psychological Profiling / specified desired traits either for free or at additional cost depending on choosiness. You may elect to add on at least one Child Unit on top of said Spousal Unit as a long-term salary garnish option. Again, actual children in the relationship will not be accepted as counting towards the '2 Adults in a Consenting Relationship' rule.
3. Your sexual preferences are NOT our concern. Mostly. - it's your life to live how you want. We do not believe in discriminatory laws and will often turn a deaf ear through the profligate use of lawyers and legal writ. If you're trans, homo, ace, pan, bi, omni, or some other color of the LGBT flag, you're welcome to find a House and be a neighbour to others, the nature of your 'Consenting Relationship' will not matter in Rule 1 as long as it is not explictly defined as illegal in Minnesota state law (which is extremely lenient and forgiving as of 2040 onwards )
4. You will not have a say in what house or location you get (Exceptions Noted) - Housing is randomly alloted based on the requirements of each family, not even the top level staff of Arendtcore get to leap over the AI that makes the decisions in this matter. Exceptions MAY be granted if one can prove that the family requires it for medical or religious reasons.
5. Quitting? Turn in your keys. - Any Arendtcore Employee retrenched will be granted 30 days to find a new home and job outside Little Sanctuary, or a new job within the Company for either themselves or another Adult member of the company. At the end of 30 days, any relationship grouping without any Arendtcore employment will be required to turn in their keys and find a new home and job outside of Little Sanctuary. Exceptions may be granted temporarily or otherwise for genuine medical-related unfitness to work, or need to care for at least one child under 18, or to participants granted access under the Refugee Programme clauses.
6. No extensive renovations - to avoid unhappy neighbours, please clear with your Housing Programme coordinator any significant renovations you wish to make.
7. Castle Doctrine - alarm systems and less-lethal repellent devices are legal for use in Little Sanctuary, and intruders may be shot with less-lethal devices of any type by the owner of the house being intruded into.
8. We'll ask first - in the event that a home is required for Company purposes, the Company will give at least 7 working days of notice to the house holder. The holder may reject the request unless it is related to work-related matters during work hours. This is NOT an invite to include unreasonable requests - please alert your Housing Coordinator if you feel this clause is being abused to gain unjustified access to your home.

Little Sanctuary Oddities

Local Jargon

As Little Sanctuary as a town has developed in ways both far ahead of its surrounding neighbouts (extremely bleeding edge tech run amok) and far behind (design cues taken from an Americana that hasn't existed for centuries), it has culturally also become a bit of a 'weird ass place'. This includes the language, which, while supposedly American English mixed from both Unions as well as the Neutral States, also acquired some pretty interesting local colloquialisms. Some of those colloquialisms have been excerpted from the local dictionary here:

• Fuck-Me-To-Tilt: Used originally by self-aware inorganics to denote sex so good for them that it causes them to temporarily enter a state of recoverable non-functionality. Has gradually also caught on with organics in Little Sanctuary for the same reasons albeit in organic terms. Contrast with: Fuck-Me-To-Scrap, Fuck-Me-To-Pieces
• catties: originally used to denote Arendtcore units based off Cyberkitty technology, which are often denoted by their being human-sized bipedal cats, often in anoraks when outdoors. Previously a slur, has been stolen by Cyberkitty culture and groupings, and more open-minded partners with prior consent for their own affectionate uses. "Yo yo yo, how me catties doing today?" "He's a cattie, but he's our cattie!"
• sleeper mode: a mode toggle on Arendtcore units (and many other competing brands) that allows a inorganic unit to operate without awareness of its true basis in circuitry and plastic rather than biological systems at a cost in increased complexity in operations and maintenance. Sometimes used as a slur to put down people considered epically stupid. e.g. "Omigod, that guy is such a idiot!" "Yeah, it's like he's on sleeper mode or some shit."
• The Complex: used in a Little Sanctuary context, it can only mean one thing - The Arendtcore offices and main factory complex as located in the heart of Little Sanctuary, and the spot where many of the Original Districts that Little Sanctuary initially gathered together as a corporate town.
• Original Districts / OhDees : The original districts that Little Sanctuary was first formed into from parts of Ohio that had voted earliest to become part of Arendtcore's corporate enclave proposal. Numbered 1-35. There has been little scope creep as newer districts have been added to the list of currently 178 districts.
• The Four: refers to the original four founders of Arendtcore (as well as Little Sanctuary later on) - Marcus Manners, Aymee Ichigo, Seamus Arendt, and Bellamy Arendt.
• rejuve: therapies designed to slow down or even (salacious rumor has it) reverse aging. The result is a society where one's age cannot be readily determined by one's appearance - many people look considerably younger than their actual age. Actually asking for ID to check ages for age-limited activities or purchases is a common and justified form of paranoia within Little Sanctuary.
• HAF : a drug supposedly obtained from the burning of human analogue flesh at high temperatures, meant to induce highs followed by paranoia. This claim has been disputed by Arendtcore as none of its precursors have any use in any form of drug meant to induce a high.
• pop: remove or slide back a cover to internals or an access panel. Not recommended outside of controlled conditions due to how it exposes delicate circuitry to the hazards offered by the world.
• Despo years: refers to the Despotic Years, the years in which original America fragmented into its current condition due to despotic rule from Wash District to the East and protesting states hiving off in protest mainly in the West.
• incomers: refers to newcomers who have just made it past the gates of Little Sanctuary for long term purposes such as emigration or employment in Little Sanctuary
• indies: refers to people who live in Little Sanctuary for the purpose of employment at a business not directly related to Arendtcore or its subsidiaries. As such businesses are rarely permitted to exist within Little Sanctuary, "indies" are very rare to encounter.
• spousal: refers to inorganics issued to a Arendtcore employee under the Families programme to function as a spouse (hence the term)
• rat: not quite the demeaning term or yucky animal most people think of them as. Usually refers to Greater Minnesotan Rats, which when properly bred and vaccinated can function as pets or food. Much of the meat you see in Minnesota is rat. Much of the meat you see in Little Sanctuary is rat processed into a deniable state.
• square: a central location for groups of several districts, where many shared facilities and shops are emplaced to both serve the districts and foster engagement and closer ties amongst residents. Often host to interesting activities such as the Charity Pie Bake Contests, the Live Art Concerns, and the Humors and Rumors news and comedy events.
• Five Minute Love: a corruption of the Five Minute Hates, where one person points out something 'worth loving' and the rest of the grouping spend the next five minutes or so following on with more declarations of how it is loved, or staying silent. To protest against a FML is considered impolite in Little Sanctuary society unless the item in question is clearly the subject of much opprobium e.g. Great Leader Drurutus of the True American Union, or pineapple pizza, or even the overuse of the color blue in some districts (such as 47)
• bar mitzvah/bat mitzvah: corrupted from its original use as a Jewish celebration of a child approaching the age of reason - in Little Sanctuary this usually refers to Child Units issued under the Familites Programme celebrating reaching a major stage in their aging (9-10, 11-12, 13-15, 16-17, 18+), mainly to update others who know them of their new form and identity. Has gradually also spread to organic children, though parents in this case may not be as strict about the stages defined.
• Originals: refers to people who can lay claim to being part of the first wave of people who formed Arendtcore and established Little Sanctuary.
• fibrovasculars/fibros: a term that has entered popular usage somehow, despite being a very technical term. Refers to the elements that make up the iris and provide its color in organics originally, now refers to the entire iris of an eye. "That girl has some amazing deep blue fibros." Has been partially corrupted by the introduction of false similar elements into visual sensors intended to be lifelike.