I did two things in that year that I am glad about and one that I failed at, and I want them here because this account is otherwise a list of my errors.

In the February I got the VENDOR line taken off the site staff badges.

It was a nine-minute conversation with a facilities director who had never been asked and who said, “Honestly?

No reason.

It’s just the template.” Two hundred and forty people in six buildings stopped wearing a badge that announced they were not really staff, and it cost the company about eleven hundred dollars in reprinting.

In the June I got the night crew a break room on thirty-eight with a microwave and a door, because the arrangement until then was that they ate in the basement or in a stairwell, and I had eaten in that stairwell for four years.