章 272: Game with no Difficulty

"This is what Employee #427 did every day of every month of every year, and although others may have considered it soul rending, Stanley relished every moment that the orders came in, as though he had been made exactly for this job.

"And Stanley was happy.

"The camera panned away before fading black, and this time the title of the game appeared on the screen.

"And then one day, something very peculiar happened."

Something that would forever change Stanley; something he would never quite forget.

The game faded back in, showing Stanley who was still in front of the computer, but this time he wasn't moving.

"He had been at his desk for nearly an hour when he had realized not one single order had arrived on the monitor for him to follow.

"No one had shown up to give him instructions, call a meeting, or even say 'hi'. Never in all his years at the company had this happened, this complete isolation.