The New Assignment. A Nano update.
An excerpt from my new NanoWrimo novel, The Times of Clouds and Sun (22k words of an eventual 50k).
With the new assignment, Baxter finally understood the stress that Barry had been under. It wasn’t a day to day stress. Or a month to month stress. But it was a low burning literal pain in the neck stress to deal with people so misguided and awful and not tell them to fuck off because, well they were clients and because social media as we once knew it was dead and people couldn’t connect anymore.
These people were nuts.
Their whole screed, which accompanied the video that he’d been shown in the confidential and secure location that was the private conference room of CEO and Founder Jim Coffner…went further into the flat out insanity and paranoia of the people who wanted to hasten the end of humanity.
For starters, well, they wanted to end humanity. That should have been a red flag.
But in the “customer is always right” spirit of yesteryear (before customer service died) and with the current and perpetual soulless spirit of naked and aggressive and indifferent capitalism, everything was ok, as long as there was money to be made.
With the new assignment, Baxter finally understood the stress that Barry had been under. It wasn’t a day to day stress. Or a month to month stress. But it was a low burning literal pain in the neck stress to deal with people so misguided and awful and not tell them to fuck off because, well they were clients and because social media as we once knew it was dead and people couldn’t connect anymore.
These people were nuts.
Their whole screed, which accompanied the video that he’d been shown in the confidential and secure location that was the private conference room of CEO and Founder Jim Coffner…went further into the flat out insanity and paranoia of the people who wanted to hasten the end of humanity.
For starters, well, they wanted to end humanity. That should have been a red flag.
But in the “customer is always right” spirit of yesteryear (before customer service died) and with the current and perpetual soulless spirit of naked and aggressive and indifferent capitalism, everything was ok, as long as there was money to be made.
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