I Still Have to Clock in Tomorrow

Xinyi District, Taipei. A large technology company. There are no monsters here. There is no end. There are no superpowers. There are only endless reports, Teams groups with notifications popping up early in the morning, increasingly ridiculous KPIs, and a system that slowly turns people into process parts. Lu Wei is just an ordinary office worker. The dark circles are heavy. Mouth smells bad. My biggest dream every day is to get off work on time. But the company doesn't think so. It requires employees to be grateful for working overtime. Ask for a meeting with a smile. Requesting a message back late at night. AI has even begun to be used to calculate "happiness." So Lu Wei began to fight back. Not a bloody revolution. It's not about blowing up the company. Instead: Use legal procedures to block the system. Use Excel to bring down the top management. Use announcements to counter-kill announcements. Use process and collide with process. Because it's not the monsters that are truly scary. Instead: At 8:59 in the morning, you still have to swipe your card to enter the company.