* * *
In order to increase production efficiency the company offered distribution center workers a choice between being laid off or being optimized.
As I finish packing my things I gaze at the fulfillment center floor upon the rows of robotics and wires attached to optimized workers, and I shudder at the fate I barely avoided.
* * *
I got out of my car to drop off the four dollar delivery only to hear a vicious bark before being knocked to the ground by an extremely aggressive dog.
My customer came out of their home, and upon seeing me under attack they walked past me and grabbed my delivery bag before returning inside as their dog mauled me.
* * *
Clutching my beloved cat in my arms I walk through the back alleys looking for a place to rest after the longest day of my life when I hear a robotic voice directly behind me.
“Initiating repossession and harvesting of feline organism that is last known possession of current subject of debt collection.”
* * *
I compulsively unlock my phone to try google how to apply emergency first aid for a protruding bone to save my friend’s life.
“The server not found” message reminds me that the internet died along with the global power grid last year.
* * *
My son looked at me with tears in his eyes and asked, “Daddy when will mommy and sissy be home?”
I glanced out the window at the two pairs of glowing eyes circling the well worn salt perimeter and told him that they would be returning home for dinner very soon.
