https://www.atvbt.com/kids/
"You rise before dawn to make it on time to your government-mandated job.
Despite having a medical condition that means you need significantly more sleep
than average, compulsory work starts early and it’s still dark out when you
catch the commuter bus.
In the hallway to your office, you see that a subordinate has displeased his
boss; something about his uniform not being to spec. He’s violently shoved
through the wall of a cubicle with a laugh while others hurry past, hoping to
escape notice. The victim dusts himself off and scurries away, for that
exchange counted as getting off relatively easy. Once, after transferring
departments, you’d gotten beaten up by nearly the entire C-suite.
Your day consists of boredom punctuated by intense dread, the only real relief
being lunch. On the way there you remember to take the long way around to avoid
the accounting department, which is always a likely place to get jumped.
After lunch, as you sit browsing excel sheets, a passing colleague stops by to
call you a sand n**
*. You briefly remember HR’s suggested reply of “I know
you are, but what am I?”, but alas, this colleague is not in fact a sand
n***, so you sit silent, defeated.
It will be several more years before you’re allowed to resign.
That’s not a dystopian future, it’s just an office-worker version of what many
kids go through daily."
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
