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For most office workers, Casual Fridays are a chance to unwind, relax and ease into the weekend. But not for Step, a mid-level marketing executive at New York financial giant Citigroup.

Co-workers say Step has begun to dress up on Fridays, rather than dress down.

“He’s coming to work in a black tie and tails,” said the cat’s manager, Carolyn Mulvaney. “As a cat, we don’t even require him to wear clothes at all, and he walks in every Friday looking like he’s about to go to a gala benefit at the Yale Club.”

Friends of the cat aren’t sure why he’s rebelled against casual Fridays, but suspect that he might be angling for a promotion.

“He sees upper management come to work in suits every day and I think he believes if he dresses fancy, he’ll get promoted,” said cubicle mate Andrew Bolt. “Obviously that’s not how things work here, but, hashtag cat logic, am I right?”

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Since it introduced its first vacuum with “cyclonic technology” in 1993, Dyson has been known for making some of the highest performing cleaners on the market. Its newest offering, the Catcuum DC-M, however, is a rare miss according to critics.

Consumer Reports gave the vacuum its lowest possible rating in a recent issue.

“We just can’t recommend the Dyson Catcuum DC-M,” wrote the magazine’s editors. “It seems to mostly just move dust and household debris around the floor, and in our testing it often spent hours of the day under the bed doing nothing at all.”

And in a write up on the consumer reviews website The Wirecutter, the Catcuum, “creates more dust than it picks up. Hair was just everywhere during our tests.”

Dyson representatives could not be reached for comment, but the Catcuum’s price has been discounted by as much as 75% at online retailers over the past week, indicating that sales of the model have not been good.

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