Two weeks? Rex was having a laugh, right? Though...perhaps not. It'd better look amazing when it was done, being this inconvenient. Alina was all for updating the place, but causing this much racket in the process? They couldn't just stop work for two weeks. It would have been far better to do when they were all off over Christmas, really.

And then Mei Lin announced she was leaving. Alina's eyes widened. Though as her fellow Division Head explained, Alina could see she had good reasons. And she'd had the courtesy to think it through with timings and recruitment and all that. Alina smiled at her. "Wow, sounds amazing! I've never been to Japan, but to go there for your dream job, you must be thrilled..." she said, half shouting so that Mei Lin could hear her, but also aware that she was near by and if the banging mometarily stopped (would it? Doubtful) she didn't want to deafen anyone.

And then Liam piped up. A strike? That was drastic. She knew it was VERY annoying (CRASH!) but action like that, whoa! Alina really wasn't the type of person for that kind of action - she'd just battle on through grumpily the best she could. "Is that wise?" Alina mouthed to Liam.

Looking curious for a moment, Alina had a thought. "IF THIS IS HAPPENING FOR TWO WEEKS," she shouted to Rex, as the noise level increased again (surely it couldn't get much louder?), "ARE ALL THE DIVISIONS BEING DONE INDIVIDUALLY TOO? LIKE DO I NEED TO GO PACK UP ALL OUR PAPERWORK AND MODELS SAFELY?"