[PDF]An office in the future where play money is used to get things done. However, if you don't know how to make it work for you, you could wind up without a stapler, a mouse, perhaps even homeless, having to sell your cubicle, that is....
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Real Play Money Of The Future®
A sketch comedy idea
by Jonathan D. Steinhoff, copyright 3.23.12
In the year 2063, we find office environments have changed in a strange way, at
least this environment has. We find that a company uses an obnoxious system
of allotting to their workers, based on status and tasks, an in-company currency
coupled to a system based on bartering. Everyone appears very accustomed to
this as a fact of life, using this system as if it is the most natural thing.
For example, Person A uses the in-house currency to purchase the stapler of his
co-worker, Person B. And also Person B's mouse pad. And the wheels on
Person B's office chair. Eventually, Person B reduces himself to almost nothing
after selling so much. However, with all that in-house currency from selling these
items to Person A (who became very wealthy in in-house currency ever since he
sold electronic copies of a 1927 report, "Rainfall In The Rainforest", which was
very popular, necessary to what his workgroup was doing, in fact), Person B can
now purchase a software that helps him work on data documents, which will
greatly improve a report he's writing. There are those who become the equivalent
of homeless (one can sell or rent one's cubicle), the office essentially being a
microcosm of a cutthroat capitalist environment. It's like real currency -
especially when your job depends on it!