So, I had a dream where I was working in an evil corporation as a corporate drone. It was... an interesting dream. The dream even gave me an idea about a short story.
I was the secretary of an evil woman named Emma Whats-her-surname. I was more like a slave. The corporation had accommodations, food, etc and I wasn't allowed to leave. I needed to be promoted to be allowed to leave the building and the promotion wasn't coming anytime soon. I just wanted to leave before I went crazy.
I secretly entered the Emma's room (which was next to my tiny room) with the key she gave me. She wasn't there. I searched through the documents and tried to find... something. I was just trying to find a way to get out of this hellhole. I found a note on her table and read it. I don't remember exactly what was written but I remember what was it about. It roughly said:
Next time I won't be so kind and if you don't meet my demands, worse will happen.
Max.Max. I didn't know who this Max was and what he wanted from my boss. What's more is, who the fuck leaves his name on a threat note which can be used as evidence against him later? I didn't care much anyway. So, someone was messing with my evil boss? Cool! Anyway, I couldn't find anything else of interest so I cleaned the mess I made while searching and got out. I decided to take a walk around the building. While walking around, I saw an old man, wearing a tuxedo. He seemed... important. An important man like this probably could leave this building whenever he wanted. That gave me an idea and I tried something.
I put my winning smile and walked towards the old man shouting
"Hey, remember me?". He smiled too but it was obvious he was thinking more like
"Who da fuck is this?" and he was just smiling to not seem rude. When I got closer to him, I laughed and said
"Ah, good old days" and hugged him. When I hugged him, I quickly searched through his pockets and found a card. After I took the card and stopped my bear hug, I said "Okay, see ya later." and walked away. He was like
"WTF JUST HAPPEN?" but I guess he was too much of a gentleman to say it.
Anyway, after I put a safe distance, I found a bench and sit there. I examined the card, it was a simple business ID card you can wear around your neck. This guy was definitely someone important. I didn't even have a work card. Maybe I could use it to my advantage. I looked at the photo on the card, it looked nothing like me because the guy in the photo, well, it was that old guy. I realized the photo was in some kind of a pocket inside the protective material around the card. It was like someone cut the protective plastic with a knife, scraped off the photo on it, and put another photo. Weird. Eh, it worked to my advantage.
I quickly got back to my office and found a small photo of me in my desk. I took off the photo of the old guy from the card and put in my photo. I memorized the name, department, etc on the card in case someone asked me something. Funny thing is I don't remember any of it now. I wore the card around my neck, and before I escaped from this corporatedom, I decided to take a look at Emma, my boss' office for the lulz. She wasn't there again, but there was some half-eaten omelette on her table. I thought about poisoning her meal (seriously) but it could be suspicious if Emma suddenly died because of a poison and her secretary disappeared into thin air.
Kinda disappointed with not murdering Emma, I decided to haul ass before I got caught with someone else's card. Now, the dream is kinda hazy from now on but what I remember is, I tried to find an exit from this building for like, forever. After waking up, I thought about it a little and then
Fridge Horror kicked in. The building is already the size of a small town and it has EVERYTHING. It even had virtual sunlight. It was some hi-tech stuff. You can simply live there. So, the building probably didn't have an exit and we were meant to work like slaves until we died. That was our world, simple as that.
BTW, I have no idea who Max is. Maybe I forgot that part of the dream where I find out about him or something.
Also, it's kinda weird that I'm not in my country but another country where people have English names and everyone talks English.