“What’s headcount?”

“Can’t wait for you to get support!”

“What are the downstream effects?”

“Let me check with Dan Bae (CFO).”

“Let me check with leadership.”

“It’s in BambooHR!”

“Let me check with Ben Sauls (Security/IT).”

“I can ask Jacky (Fractional CPO).”

“Let’s go through our Rocks.”

“Let me check with DK (COO).”

“Let me check with DK or Tyler.”

“Thanks for your patience.”

“Working on getting offsite details to the team.”

“Alas”

“We’re almost at headcount for Q1.”

“We’re almost at headcount for Q2.”

“We have x new folks starting on Monday.”

“Just letting you know the All-Hands chat is unhinged.”

“You can loop me in to discuss comp.”

“Isidora shared image.png in xx-slack channel is always a notification that makes me really happy or super stresses me out”

“When I saw a ping that Isidora had sent an image to both of us, my heart dropped, not gonna lie.”

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