Smart. Read the title, noticed it was part of a challenge, read the challenge description, came back ready for controversy, got a good laugh out of it instead and it makes a point about peoples’ apparent need to argue. Which is fitting, this being the internet and all.
I think the last line might read better as: “He fell back into his plush chair, disgusted.” But I’ll be damned if I can give a rational explanation for why – it just reads better to me.
Left the original version of the line it at the end for no other reason than my own negligence and idiocy. I copied it there to edit and then forgot to delete it.
I like the way you’ve set up the scene, with the boss behaving remarkably like God, looking down on his creation with despair at the constant petty arguing.
I like the comedy of the idea. It’s so… geeky. So pointless. So human. Yes. But I’d like Stockman to be more involved, one way or another. He’s a little too removed the whole thing – a lens of clear perspective, if you will. The comedy would be sharper if we were there, on the floor in the middle of an argument that got bloody. Over operating environments. Yeah.
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