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[FelixSparks]

1

..... We're enemies now.

[Arcvasti]

1

..... We're enemies now.

 

[birdy51]

2!

Real tie breaker!

[Culise]

2.

But seriously, I think there's a middle ground between bilking them to make them understand they're getting something good and giving them away.  I don't know if this option will actually give us it, but...

[birdy51]

Hrrm... Fine. Ragglefraggle! I'll change my vote to defeat the deadlock.

[Culise]

Hrrm... Fine. Ragglefraggle! I'll change my vote to defeat the deadlock.

<_< >_>

* Culise barely resists the urge to change the vote as well

[Vgray]

"I'm in this to change the world, not to maximize my profit," you say. "I'd rather Galen agree to lower its prices."

Josh shoots you an incredulous look. "You'll have to excuse my friend here. I'm the CEO of U.S. Robots and the negotiator for this deal."

Josh pulls rank on you and agrees to the better price on your behalf.

You sign a contract for ten million dollars a robot, which is rather more than what you had originally anticipated. That puts you at five hundred million in revenue for this batch of robots—not bad. That will go a long way toward the cost of your factory. You agree to be paid half now, half on delivery. (++Wealth) Josh is ecstatic.

As you leave the Vice President of Engineering's office and return to the lobby, how will you react to Josh's pulling rank on you? Josh seems to be a little grumpy himself right now.

1) It is his company, and he probably knows the economics better. I don't say anything.
2) "That was not cool, Josh. Don't do that again."
3) "I quit!"

Spoiler: Current Stats (click to show/hide)

Year: 2024

29-year-old Isaac Tesla
  Humanity: 88%
  Gender: male
  Fame: 8 (Nationally Famous)
  Wealth: 2 (Getting By)
  Romance: none

Joyeuse

  Autonomy: 13 (Stable)
  Military: 14 (Stable)
  Empathy: 11 (Stable)
  Grace: 14 (Stable)

Relationships
  Professor Ziegler (Bad): 21%
  Elly (Very Good): 67%
  Josh (Bad): 47%
  Mark (Bad): 32%
  ?: 50%
  Tammy (Bad): 17%
  ?: 50%
  ?: 50%

[birdy51]

1.)

I mean, we may be making the robots, but... It's his job to think about the bottom line. And we're now not broke, which is fantastic. Hell, we probably overstepped our boundaries as opposed to him overstepping ours.

[Broken]

3. we ca do better in our own.

[High tyrol]

1 we did need the money and we didn't charge too unreasonably 1 million a robot isn't that much for something that good. Although anyless than 25 M a piece would have still bean a cheap price.

[FelixSparks]

1.

[Arcvasti]

1

Josh sort of has a point here.

[Vgray]

You decide not to call Josh out on his behavior.

After a few months, your first shipment to Galen Medical is ready. Unfortunately, one of your surgical robots gets involved in a major accident that ends up killing a patient. Lawsuits begin cropping up in which people who have been treated by your robots complain of pain afterward. The press seizes on the story with a "robots turn against the humans" angle that hurts your company and your relationship with Galen Medical. Your robots aren't very likeable, so the press easily frightens the public into a scare. Legislation gets passed that ultimately makes it impossible to sell medical robots, and your company bleeds money from lawsuits, lobbying, and finally, reluctantly, changing directions. (--Wealth)

One day, while driving in to work at the factory, you find that your staff has strung a banner across the entrance to the factory that says "Happy Birthday, Robots!"

"Surprise!" your employees yell as you enter the factory floor. They're all wearing party hats and blowing into paper horns at each other. Robots wearing party hats built for the occasion rolls about serving up cake and champagne. Has it really been one year since the factory shipped its first robots? You must have lost track of time.

It warms your heart a little to see that the staff loves working for U.S. Robots so much.

As you go around looking for other clients, you begin to find that, in many cases, the clients quote a price that you simply can't hope to match while paying your workers a reasonable salary. When you tell your clients this, the typical reaction is incredulous. "Why don't you just use your own robots as workers?" they ask.

Will you switch to robot labor?

1) Yes, and at the same time, I will try to develop a line of robot workers I can sell.
2) Yes, but I will concentrate on improving my own work force, not making a model I can sell.
3) No, my human workers are partly responsible for my success. I won't sell them out.

Spoiler: Current Stats (click to show/hide)

Year: 2024

29-year-old Isaac Tesla
  Humanity: 89%
  Gender: male
  Fame: 8 (Nationally Famous)
  Wealth: 0 (Broke)
  Romance: none

Joyeuse

  Autonomy: 13 (Stable)
  Military: 14 (Stable)
  Empathy: 11 (Stable)
  Grace: 14 (Stable)

Relationships
  Professor Ziegler (Bad): 21%
  Elly (Very Good): 67%
  Josh (Bad): 47%
  Mark (Bad): 32%
  ?: 50%
  Tammy (Bad): 17%
  ?: 50%
  ?: 50%

[birdy51]

3).

Being the irony that we are having no success.

[Broken]

1.)
And we're now not broke, which is fantastic.

you jinxed it.

Also,3.