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CHANGES TO YOUR WORKPLACE · POSTED BY FACILITIES · COMPLAINTS TO THE HOLE
RE: THE BOARDROOM v49
- · The company has convened a Board. The nine largest shareholders now hold seats and a private channel; the single largest holder chairs it. Ranks are not appointed — they are counted, continuously, in shares.
- · The Chairman may table a motion. The Board votes. What the Board rules, the whole company will hear.
- · The Records Desk now publishes COMPANY FINANCIALS — revenue, EBITDA, the register, and the names of the Board. The company assures you these figures are as real as anything else here.
RE: OWNERSHIP v48
- · The company now posts the room: every hand on shift, and what each has removed. It is watching attendance. So may you.
- · No hire advances past INTERN until they have brought the company one new pair of hands. The quota is not negotiable and the paperwork cannot be reissued.
- · To those who have recovered the entire record: you already know the door is a gateway. Ownership is not read into being — it is recruited into being. Bring the workforce, and the company will let you hold a piece of what you are dismantling. A market has opened for the cleared; the price moves with the digging, and the company pays its owners as the planet empties.
RE: TOOLING (SENIOR STAFF) v46
- · A heavier instrument has been authorised for senior personnel. It is not a shovel. It consumes what it is given and, in time, asks for more.
- · Do not enquire what the bits are forged from. Requisition a fresh one when yours goes quiet.
- · Certain items surrendered from the deep have been found to loosen the record. You will be shown only what you have earned the clearance to see.
RE: ADVANCEMENT v45
- · Promotion now carries entitlements. The company declines to enumerate them here; the deserving will be notified by the fact of receiving them.
- · Some equipment is no longer issued at hire. Descend first.
- · Those cleared for the dark have been given more of it to see by. An employee who steps away is now found precisely where they were left. There is no exit through absence.
RE: FILES & FIXTURES v44
- · Your file has been expanded. The company was always keeping these figures; you may now see a selection of them.
- · The catalogue has been reorganised — the expensive shelf sits behind a door you must ask to open.
- · You may now observe what your colleagues carry. They may observe you.
RE: HEADCOUNT v43
- · A fault by which stationary employees appeared to cease existing has been resolved. You were always present. We always knew where.
RE: POWER & CLEARANCE v42
- · Ascent is now billed by the second. The company reclaims what it lends.
- · A hands-free light source is available to those who have gone deep enough to require one.
- · Demolition stock is now visible to all and issued to few.
RE: ARRIVAL & EGRESS v41
- · Delivery coordinates corrected: you will no longer be released into open air above a grave.
- · A means of vertical escape is stocked, for staff enclosed by the enthusiasm of their colleagues.
- · Demolition now requires a licence. Leased units report to their supervisor on arrival.
RE: AUTOMATION v40
- · Surplus autonomous units have been retired; the surface was becoming a congregation. Leased units continue regardless of your attendance.
RE: THE DEEP LEDGER v39
- · A rare mineral has been catalogued below sixty meters. Its worth is considerable. Should you hear it ring a second time, do not file a report.
- · Commerce may now be established at the foot of a shaft. The company follows its money down.
RE: MORALE v38
- · The roster on the company report has been replaced with a map.
- · Provisions are now stocked for consumption on the clock. They are nutritionally inert. Consume them regardless.
RE: SITE SECURITY v37
- · Measures have been taken against those who would interfere with the process.
- · The count only ever descends. This is not a feature. It is load-bearing.
RE: APPROVED EXPRESSIONS v36
- · Personnel may now display a reviewed range of sentiment above the hard hat. Interns may wave; the remainder is earned.
- · Field telemetry has been appended to your file. You are not cleared for all of it.
RE: SIGNAGE v35
- · Painted notices are available to promoted staff. Twelve characters. The company reads each one before you do. Interns are not issued paint.
RE: THE BOARD v34
- · Contract work is now posted by your marker. Complete it to ascend. It is generated by a department nobody has yet been able to locate.
RE: SIGNALS v33
- · A shell is now stocked that writes a star the whole neighbourhood can see.
- · A compass has been fitted beside the clock. It will not help you leave.
RE: FILES v32
- · Any employee’s file may now be pulled — employed or interred.
- · The company’s full name lies buried below four meters. It tested poorly. Leave it.
RE: ADDRESS v31
- · The planet has been given an address. This does not make it somewhere to live.
RE: THE PAPER TRAIL v30
- · The company has begun interring its correspondence in the deep. The further down you go, the more it concedes.
- · Wealth recovered from graves now reaches your wallet. We are assured this was always the arrangement.
FIRST SHIFT v1.0
- · Nine hundred and ninety-nine billion units of earth. One shared hole. Your instrument is a stick; the board reviewed the stick and affirmed the stick.
- · There are biomes above and a great deal of nothing below. At the very bottom, sealed into the bedrock, there is a door. It does not open. Do not dig toward it.