Chapter 57: Bad Working Conditions
Bad Working Conditions
( The real world )
After round two ended, round three was scheduled to be 16 hourster, so Leo rented a room for 2 silver coins within the Assassin Alliance headquarters and logged out of Terra Nova Online since it was time for his next day’s shift.
Luke was also awake and logged out by the time Leo woke up as he was already dressed in his work gear and ready to go by the time Leo woke up.
” I’ve already reached level 6, I’ll reach level 10 tomorrow” Luke said as he gave Leo a status report on his progress.
” That’s great! I’ve already reached level10″ Leo said, lying through his teeth as Luke smiled and praised him for working hard.
Since they had already used MP yesterday to avoid work, the brother’s were not keen on repeating it twice in a row as apart from saving MP, there was also the important aspect of their bodies feeling weak and hungry from not having eaten in the past 36 hours.
Although both brothers did not raise a singleint to one another, both felt their stomachs caving and rumbling, yet they behaved like everything was okay.
Uptil now, they were unaware about the riots that took ce in Sector E and how vtile the environment had be, but they were about to get a massive reality check as they headed out. *SLIDE* ( Door Opens )
It was Luke who first peeked outside their room to check if there was still a crowd gathered outside, and he was delighted to find out that there were no people still waiting for them toe out.
The hype surrounding Cervantez’s visit seemed to have died down as Luke and Leo were able to safely leave their house and report for work without causing any major incidents.
The first indication that Luke and Leo got that something was wrong was when they observed that all three supervisors- Vinicus, Cama and Jude were having ck eyes and bruised lips as if they had just received a thorough beating not too long ago.
Their eyes were filled with perpetual hatred for theizens of Sector E as they seemed to want nothing more than to kill them all if they could.
“Something happened yesterday?” Luke asked the individual standing in front of him in the attendance queue, however, despite hearing Luke’s question, the man in front chose to ignore him and did not give Luke and answer.
Yesterday during the riots, some audacious individuals had attacked the supervisors and caused the police robots to crackdown on everyone.
The supervisors had lost grading because they could not assert control over their workers and because work had not beenpleted optimally on day2 due to low worker turnout.
Finally, with there being only 4 days left now for the first evaluation, neither the supervisors nor the workers seemed to be willing to take any risks which is why the atmosphere was extremely tense at roll call.
” STARTING TODAY, THERE WILL BE SOME MAJOR CHANGES-” Mr. Vinicus said as he was an individual who was assaulted on both work days and now rightfully viewed and resented the sector E workers as if they were lesser humans like ves.
” STARTING TODAY, YOUR LUNCH BREAK WILL BE DEPENDENT ON YOUR HALF-DAY EVALUATION.
UNSATISFACTORY WORK MEANS YOU GET NO LUNCH.
UNSATISFACTORY WORK AT FULL TIME, MEANS YOU GET NO DINNER EITHER” Vinicus said, as almost instantly and uproar began to spread amongst the sector E workers who felt like this rule was absolutely ridiculous.
” You can’t do that- that’s a vition ofbourws! We have a right to nutrition asshole”
” Oh yeah? I think yesterday’s beating was not enough! Maybe we should rip your head off and eat it instead”
” Individual E-551, You have threatened a supervisor. Issuing punishment”
*BZZZZZZ*
Luke and Leo watched in horror as the man who threatened to rip Vinicus’s head off and eat it was knocked unconscious by his ankle bracelet, which created an atmosphere of fear and suppression amongst other workers.
There were many who wished to voice their disapproval, however, with the knowledge that the ankle bracelet was monitoring everything they said and did, they felt fearful of saying anything.
Defiance could be seen in each and every sector E workers eyes, yet for now, they remained silent.
” LABOUR LAWS? FAIR TREATMENT? Forget about those concepts now.
This is not Earth and if thest two days have taught me anything, it’s that you people are worse than criminals back on Earth.
It’s a simple equation from now-
Work to eat
Work to live.
That’s it.
There will be no fraternising with the supervisors, no kindness, no mercy.
Since you dare raise your fists against us, we will show you how we are worse than circus ringmasters” Supervisor Cama said as he absolutely crushed any hope of havingbourws and protective policies amongst the workers of sector E.
” YOU HEAR THAT SUCKERS? OFF TO DUTY YOU STINKY PUNKS.
BETTER HAVE THOSE SEWAGE TANKS AS SHINY AS SILVER CUTLERY BY LUNCH, ELSE NO FOOD FOR YOU.
NOW MOVE IT!” Vinicus eximed as the sewage workers began to jog to their work stations in a frantic pace.
Tears rolled down the eyes of many, as the transition from a sort ofwful life on Earth to thewless jungle of the Arc Ship now was jarring for many.
Even Luke and Leo felt disturbed at the thought of possibly missing lunch today as they had not eaten for 36 hours straight now and had to work a gruelling shift cleaning other people’s bowels from a septic tank.
Every passing day, living conditions in sector E got worse, however, while it was bad enough already, unfortunately the worst was yet to start.