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The company Sirius works at pays absolutely miserable wages, expects ungodly working hours, and doesn’t actually produce anything or bring any benefit to the world. But, hey, it has a smoothie bar.

None of his co-workers is actually German, and Sirius has a strong suspicion that the only reason he was hired was that they still lacked a British employee. It seemed like the founders were more concerned with covering the whole globe on their ‘our team’ website than actually doing a good job. A thing, Sirius learned quickly, that was concerningly common on Berlin’s start-up market.

“One last question,” he said with a dangerous glint in his eyes. “Imagine you are working here, and you open the fridge in the communal kitchen. There is yoghurt with a best-before date that passed yesterday. What do you do? A: Throw it away. B: Eat it. C: Ask if anyone else still wants it.”

Sirius just looked at him, feeling dead inside. “I’m lactose intolerant,” he said.

“You will hear back from us until the end of the week,” Pete said.