Paper clip by Arthur Colin
Page 1 of 1 All of the office froze as the elavator doors slide open. That was sort of
impressive if you thought about it, all 2, 500 cubicles going silent and a pair
of eyes for each one rising to see who was coming to floor 329. We all knew it
was from floor 1, it was instinct ( well atcually it was because the computer
said it was floor 1). Out of the elavator strode out a tall, ugly man, the boss
no dout. How they knew this? Well, the 2 million dollar suit was a big
giveaway. At seeing that it was the boss everyone got back to their own useless
tasks, paper shredding, pencil testing and evening phone tester etc, etc and a
hundred etc. The boss walked proudly through the maze of cubicles, directed
by computer ( our office called her Sally, no joke! ). Our office consisted of
100 rows, each with 25 cubicles. Funny really, whoever the boss was looking
for he would probably have to walk real far, who would have thought that he was
looking for me.
Sally had informed me and everyone in our office of the
boss's arrival by our own personal nanotech, everyone had recieved one thanks
to our previous boss ( his name was boss, just like our new one ) of course we
al new it was for more control over the workers. The boss's jooly laugh could
be heard by everyone who cared to listen, not that i was one of those people. I
had more importent tasks to perform, like my office job, paper clip disposer.
It was an importent job, our office was legendary as being the most wasteful
office for the disposing of paper clips. Now, a unique system was in every
cubicle, a tube which sol purpose was to send all uneeded paperclips to me.When
they arrived i would send them down another tube to the incenarator, that was a
very inportent job if you thought about it. The boss's laugh had finally made
it's way to my cubicle, so had the boss. The boss's mighty (and rather fat)
hand pulled me away from my many paper clips,his stupied laugh silly in my ear.
As i was further pulled from my cubicle Sally imformed me that my
sevices were not required anymore, much to my dimay. I had heard storys of
workers who had been fired, whatever that meant. I looked towards the boss, his
laughter had still not stopped (which was downright freaky). I did not feel
like stopping him, my nanotech was to blame. No matter, if the boss felt like i
was not needed then, i was not needed. He brought me to the elavator, as the
doors closed a saw the eyes of the office peak over to see my departure. The
elavator was quite roomy, in fact it looked like it could hold all an entire
office. It's gold walls and marble floor comforted me as i felt the elavator
rush towards the bottom. The boss's laugh came to an end, repaced with an angry
growl. His grip on me tightened and i shreiked with pain. The boss pushed me
violently towrds the doors. The elavator stopped with a bang and the most
amazing thing occured. The doors opened and i was bathed in sunlight. The boss
pushed me again and i tumbled out of the elavator. I fell towards the surface,
my mind fell into darkness.
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