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He waved goodbye from the kitchenette door as he wrapped a scarf around his thin neck, meaning that Amy Wainwright was now alone.
Instagram tells her that friends are only a block away having the time of their young lives but on the 16th floor of Remienko Trade Centre Building 4 – the 25-year-old is having hers.
Though she’s barely made a dent in the mountain work, the popular junior solicitor told our reporters that she’s quietly pleased with her progress.
“Yeah, I think I’m making headwind. I’ve still got a lot to do, though. Seriously. I’ll be here all night,” she said.
Our reporter joined Ms Wainwright in the designated ground floor smoking area of the Trade Centre shortly before 10pm last night.
“I hope they know I’m still here!” she laughed nervously.
But the chances of any of her superiors at Clayton, Minter & Piper knowing that she’s still got her nose to the grindstone is slim to none.
The large multinational legal services firm employs close to a thousand people in Betoota and many more around the country and indeed around the planet.
“I hope they appreciate the sacrifices I’m making for them. But I’ll tell you something for free, they’ll know if I expense dinner. That’s for sure. They’d sooner reprimand me for shouting myself a $13 Pad Thai than slap me on the back for crushing the Woolworths BP merger in under three weeks,”
Amy pulled another John Player Special from her deck and lit it with the one she was just about to finish.
“Is it what it is, you know?”
Our reporter nodded.
More to come.
