another manuscript breaks off - 2. the workers

by genghis gilgamesh

i am not a rocket scientist, was mo jo chan’s response to most questions put to him by his fellow humans. nancy ji and betty m do, the two women who worked with mo at the rvd reaearch center, at first found this mildly amusing, then mildly annoying, and then maddening. they increasingly found everything about mo maddening, particularly his slovenliness, his habit of grunting to himself, and his general air of disdain for themselves. they decided to do something about it. they put their heads together in the lunch room. nancy and betty always went to lunch together, leaving mo to run the department, and they were always late returning. mo was all good with this. for reasons he kept to himself, he did not care for female company in any circumstances or at any time of the day or night, and the work the three of them were assigned by rvd was not all that arduous. although they did not expect much, the two women decided to check first on any protocols the rvd corporation might have in place regarding unsatisfying fellow workers. nancy ”had heard” that the h r department was overburdened with such complaints but agreed with betty that it was a good idea to check. hello h r department, , betty typed in briskly on her minitablet, i and another employee have to work with a person who is a real jerk and we do not like him, our persons are demeaned and denied by his attititude and existence. can you help us out. a message from h r came back before betty could take her finger off her tablet. we are sorry but all representatives are busy at this time. your request will be considered in the order in which it was received. you may contact h r central at rvdhrcentral33 or 54639764976 but this will not guarantee faster service. thank you. betty showed nancy the message, what did i tell you, nancy said. i was not surprised, betty replied. but now we can take matters into our own hands and get down to business. * unsuspected by the innocent nancy and betty, an investigator named 89-rt-jones had been activated by the act of betty’s call, and it immediately began a survey of betty’s brain, history, and classification.. betty was classified as a 20 on a scale of 1 to 22, with 1 being the persons most volatile and threatening to social stability, and 22 the least threatening. betty’’s call was given a tentative urgency rating of 13 out of 14 - 14 being the least urgent. 88.7 percent of class 13 calls were quickly downgraded to 14s - which meant that they would never be answered. the other 11.3 percent were