![]() ![]() There’s a clinic, but sick days hurt productivity numbers, and workers are encouraged to pop a painkiller and get back to work. Cloud has safety harnesses for dangerous work, but the time spent using them hurts productivity, and without high productivity, workers will be cut. ![]() This is such a depressingly believable setting. ![]() No one is forced to work at Cloud or to stay at Cloud, it’s just the only employer hiring. There simply aren’t any other jobs, which is simultaneously dystopian and a logical extension. Working at Cloud can be a boon - when Paxton and Zinnia apply, there are dozens of other applicants, all of whom need a job very badly. Instead, founder Gibson tells familiar platitudes about hard work and bootstraps, about how there were just too many environmental regulations holding back industry, and recounts folksy stories about dedicated Cloud workers who really had no place else to go. Unlike the typical Evil Corp scifi, the owner of Cloud isn’t a shadowy mastermind. ![]() Rob Hart’s new novel, The Warehouse, takes place in a not-too-distant future, where the Cloud conglomerate supplies every need, is the major employer, and controls most governmental regulations (or lack of). ![]()
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