Part 1.
The office was alive to the sound of messages bleeping,
notification windows popping up, BlackBerrys vibrating to their sim cards’
content. The click of each mouse grew louder for each satisfying ‘sent’ and
grew more frantic at the sound of every new message.
It was a while before the clicking became noticeably quieter
and less frequent, a while before people started to look at each other in
confusion as their desks became still. The pop up windows had gone. The inbox
no longer stared out with the bold announcement of unread mail. A senseless
whisper fed from one side of the office to another. “Have you had any emails?”
“No. Have you?” “What’s happening?”
The emails stopped. For a long time no one moved, no one
clicked, they hardly dared breathe. One brave man peered out of the window to find
out whether the world had ended and they just hadn’t been told. It hadn’t.
Outside people continued life regardless. They talked, laughed, shopped and
strolled together in peace, oblivious to the terrors the corporate world was
facing...
Elloise Hopkins.
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