I don’t understand what I’m still doing here. I know for a fact that I had nothing to do with our so-called “defective” products. I mean, I had everything to do with them, but I’m not convinced that there is anything wrong with them. Any number of variables could have been responsible for those deaths. I can design the most perfect window in the world, but those designs have to be implemented correctly. Some idiot programmer could have input the wrong data, or a machinist could have calibrated the machines backwards. The installers, which are contracted out to other companies depending on geographic region, obviously could have made mistakes. If it were truly a design flaw, then wouldn’t this be happening all across the country, to everyone who bought our products? These are just a few isolated incidents. The owners, or the ones that died could have been using the windows wrong too. Ya know, they’re not designed to be leaned up against. And you can’t throw heavy things at them either. I’m not saying that’s what happened, I really don’t know, but that certainly could have been the case. Is anyone looking into that? Is anybody investigating, or do they just assume that it’s my fault? I can’t take this anymore. I keep coming into work, waiting to be fired, or at least reprimanded, but there’s been nothing. I wonder if they’re doing this to torture me. Perhaps they have some legal reason for letting this wait, but I can’t think of what that might be. Or maybe this delay is designed to get me to squirm, and then squeal. Well, I won’t do it. I refuse to take the fall for this. I’ve not contacted a lawyer for fear of appearing guilty, but maybe I ought to. Either way, I have the truth on my side. So send in the big bad corporate lawyers. I’m ready for anything. Or maybe I should just jump.
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My name is Nick Fisherman III. It's not my real name, but that's not because I'm trying to hide from my former agency, or something. I named myself after someone I've known for most of my life, and he chose it in honor of his late best friend. I took up writing when I found myself failing 8th grade science, and realized I might never reach my dream of becoming a biochemist, a meteorologist, and a quantum physicist. I started developing my canon after a scouting trip to an island inspired what I thought would be my first novel. I founded this website upon the advice of many people, who told me I needed to get my work out there, and not wait for an agent to accept my manuscript. You can expect one new story every day. Weekdays are for microstories, which are one or two paragraphs long. They're usually only thematically linked, so you won't have to read one to understand another, but they do sometimes tell a combined story. Sundays are for my continuous longer story, The Advancement of Mateo Matic, which I started in the beginning, and won't end until 2066. Saturdays are for long series, most of which take place in the same universe as Mateo, and add to the larger mythology.
Monday, October 3, 2016
Microstory 421: Floor 22 (Part 1)
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