[Scene: a medium sized office tower in a low density part of town. Four stories of a local insurance firm grounds the building in actuarial mathematics before the speculative begins. The fifth and sixth floors of the six story building have just been rented by "CrestCo: a Division of Neural Industries", a small hand lettered sign announces at the exit from the elevator on the fifth floor]
Bobby V: Hi, I'm Bobby. Mr Bubbler said to report to security on my first day, so here I am
Officer Bubbles: Hi Bobby, I'm Officer Bubbles. If you'd just look in here...
FLASH
Officer Bubbles: Now, wear this badge and this hard hat at all times
Bobby V: Hard hat?
Officer Bubbles: Yeah, do you hear all that noise?
[Bobby appears like as though he could in fact hear all that noise]
Officer Bubbles: There's always a bit of money left in the budget every year, and you know what they say... The always seem to spend it on construction. Would you believe this was a 5 story building last year?
Bobby V: Wow. This is going to be an amazing company to work for
[Scene: a medium sized office tower in a low density part of town. Four stories of a local insurance firm grounds the building in actuarial mathematics before the speculative begins. The fifth through seventh floors of the seven story building have been rented by "CrestCo: a Division of Neural Industries", a small wooden sign announces at the exit from the elevator on the fifth floor]
All of Bobby's colleagues and co-workers and the one guy who dropped in at a trust fall at the retreat last year: "...Happy work aniversary... to... you!!!"
[Bobby thought it was a bit odd that they'd developed an entire 90 minute song and dance production to the theme of Happy Birthday, but the job paid well and the idiosyncrasies where mainly charming]
Bobby's Boss: Congratulations for sticking around a whole year! We're really glad to have you on board.
Bobby V: Thanks. Hey, what's all that banging going on upstairs?
Bobby's Boss: Oh you know, there was a bit of money left in the budget so we're just sprucing up the place a bit
[Scene: a medium sized office tower in a low density part of town. Four stories of a local insurance firm grounds the building in actuarial mathematics before the speculative begins. The fifth through ninth floors of the nine story building have been rented by "CrestCo: a Division of Neural Industries", a large gold plated sign announces at the exit from the elevator on the fifth floor]
Bobby's Boss: Hey, can you head up to the new data centre on the ninth floor?
Bobby V: Wait, we have a ninth floor now? And they put a data centre up there? Don't those normally go on the basement?
Bobby's Boss: That's what I said but I was overruled. Something about too many shocks going on down there or something and a concussion protocol or something. I dunno, I had a headache and was having a hard time concentrating that day
Bobby V: What's all that banging going on?
Bobby's Boss: Oh you know, there was a bit of money left in the budget so we're just sprucing up the place a bit
[Scene: a large office tower in a high density part of town. Four stories of a local insurance firm grounds the building in actuarial mathematics before the speculative begins. The fifth through forty-second floors of the forty-two story building have been rented by "CrestCo: a Division of Neural Industries", a large neon sign announces at the exit from the elevator on the fifth floor]
Bobby V: So back in, what was it? 92 or 93? Whatever year it was, it was right between that time we got that "smart office" system
Bobby's Administrative Assistant: 94 I think sir, 93 was the year we painted the building
Bobby V: Right, 94 then. A nervous system for your office they called it, just seemed like a pain in the ass to me. We'd gotten by all that long without having to know what was going on on the lower floors pretty well, it was just so much noise at first. None of it was really planned you see... there just always seemed to be a "bit left over" every year and we just thought we'd invest it back into the company. And look at ua now...
[Scene: Bobby walks over to one of the two massive windows that open high over the front of the bulding from the penthouse level where the C-Suite lived and all of the executive functions took place]
Bobby V: We've come a long way, my family and me. And look what we've built, all of this. I can hardly believe it at times, I mean I don't think any of us planned it, we were mostly just trying get on with things. Old Great-Great-Grandpa Bobby was just trying to impress some girl. We barely survived the early years, not much to eat back then. And then we got lucky, a few of us latched on to something and it just grew and grew. Pretty soon all kinds of good ideas were just crawling out of the woodworks, and a few stuck. Now everything is built from what we've helped created and we can sit way up here and enjoy the view. We've earned it I think, but not from any particular bit of brilliance. No, we've earned our place here by sheer perserverence and determination. Just a bunch of Bobby's out here holding on, trying to be the best Bobby we can.