LERM DURK
TERMINATED
John slowly rose out from his car and travelled up the building. He stood in the elevator. Two bags dragged under his eyes John hadn’t got much sleep. The elevator doors slid apart and he stumbled through them, back to his repetitive, never ending office job at Multrek Offices. As he glanced at his office floor, everyone was in the same desks, the office was the usual loud racket and people were still rushing all directions. He made his way to his desk and there was another man sitting in his chair. John’s eyes widened and he started to sweat. Immediately rushed to Evan’s office, the boss’s office. Once John arrived Evan said, “John, I’m so sorry, bbut there’s this new robot thing called Chris 1.1 that just came out, and it was on a weekend deal. You understand right?” John then sat silently, “John, you get my point of view right? John?” John said nothing, stood up and left the office. As he walked past his desk he glanced at Chris and started yelling, “You piece of metal. You rotten job stealing machine! You have no heart, yyou don’t even know what a heart is, do you?!” John awkwardly glared into his eyes and caught his name on his badge, “Chris, you think you even deserve a name! You think your one of us!” Chris was frozen, “John, I didn’t want to take your job, it’s just that someone has to leave for someone to enter. And that person was you John, I’m sorry bbut it’s just life!” That was it, John’s eyes grew even wider, his face even sweatier and redder than before. John glanced across the room and saw that a storage door was open. For whatever reason he decided to rush into the room and slam the door.
As he sat silently in the corner of the storage room John decided to snoop around a little, and wat he had found was a large, vertical cardboard box with a sticker of Chris plastered on the front. It was called the “Chris 1.1” and the description read, “Better than the Chris 1.0, he can do up to 4x the work the old Chris could do. And he is cheaper than ever!”
John dragged out the box and lunged it towards “Chris”. Chris stared at it for a while with wide eyes, slowly realizing what he is, what he had done! He stood up and started yelling, “No! NO! This CANNOT be true! How can it be true! IM HUMAN, LOOK AT ME! BELIEVE ME PLEASE!” Everyone stood silently and stared at him awkwardly. Chris started breathing very heavily, “Does anyone even love me, what about my wife Mary? Is my wife even real, what about my son! Is my son safe!?” John then uttered the words, “Yyou’re a machine, you don’t love…” This was it, Chris started freaking out more than ever, gasping for air, pulling his hair, screaming… Chris then picked up a chair and sprinted towards the window, screaming as he smashed through the window and started plummeting towards the ground. People started peering through the gaping window and screaming in shock! John then looked through the remains of the window and saw that there was blood streaming from Chris’s body, human blood. John’s face stayed the same, he didn’t make a sound or seem worried at all! He just walked back to his desk, took a seat then plugged himself into the wall so he could charge his batteries after a stressful day at work.