beep…beep…beep…beep…

The clock counts down. 1 month, 4 days, 11 hours, 44 minutes, 39. 1 month, 4 days, 11 hours, 44 minutes, 38. 1 month, 4 days, 11 hours, 44 minutes, 37……

The grinding of machinery is deafening to any one not used to it as we are.

“COME ON YOU LOT” shouts the supervisor from his loud speaker, “YOU CAN SEE THE CLOCK! WE HAVE JUST OVER ONE MONTH AND WE’RE A LEAST 2 MONTHS BEHIND SCHEDULE!”

A collective groan coomes from us below. “We’ll be working over time to get all this done” mutters my friend Henry beside me. “If only we hadn’t had that breakdown problem last month” I reply. Henry nods and we get back to work.

Let me describe the work process for you. Letters pour into a large vat at one end of the gigantic hall and are filtered out into our different sections, in regards to the first item on the list. Me, Henry and 15 others all work in the gadgets department. What we do is the item scans onto our computer screens and we order it from the right part of the workshop