The Matrix has my workplace...
Aug. 26th, 2005 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeIt's settled: The company that I work for is 0WN3D!!111 by the Matrix.
The store manager who looked like Agent Smith and had about the same personality.
The dark-haired bagger named -- I kid you not -- Tommy Anderson, who was always getting on the Smith-clone's bad side.
The accountant (I think that's what he is...) who looks like the Architect. The first time I saw him, he happened to be wearing an off-white three piece suit: I nearly rammed him with a cart, on purpose, but I stopped myself.
My boss, who looks like a younger, shorter version of the Merovingian (and now, like the Merv, is married. If his wife even *vaguely* looks like Monica Bellucci, I'm gonna scream).
Another company bigwig who looks like Flood.
The meat department manager who looks like Roland. Even has a similar gruff, guttaral voice (but he's a lot less hard-headed than Rol).
EDITED TO ADD:I almost forgot one sighting that was a real kicker: A woman giving away free samples of some kind of cookies... and she looked eeriely like the "Enter the Matrix"/"Revolutions"/"Matrix Online" version of the Oracle.
Today, the district manager, one "Mr. Schmidt" (Who looks eeriely like a *young* Hugo Weaving; that and the last name make him even creepier to encounter) and his assistant -- a clone of Agent Jones, at least in looks -- showed up for an inspection. I was out breaking down aisles with one of the cashiers (One of the whiny ones, no less). The pair of grocery store-Agents approached her and started giving her the third degree. Meanwhile, I went about my business, straightening out the cans of Pringles and the boxes of pretzels. A moment later, they approached me and started asking me a few questions about how I liked working here. I kinda headed them off at the pass by telling them I'd worked for the company for over four years and that this was the cleanest, best-run store I'd worked in. No giving me the third degree, thank God.
The store manager who looked like Agent Smith and had about the same personality.
The dark-haired bagger named -- I kid you not -- Tommy Anderson, who was always getting on the Smith-clone's bad side.
The accountant (I think that's what he is...) who looks like the Architect. The first time I saw him, he happened to be wearing an off-white three piece suit: I nearly rammed him with a cart, on purpose, but I stopped myself.
My boss, who looks like a younger, shorter version of the Merovingian (and now, like the Merv, is married. If his wife even *vaguely* looks like Monica Bellucci, I'm gonna scream).
Another company bigwig who looks like Flood.
The meat department manager who looks like Roland. Even has a similar gruff, guttaral voice (but he's a lot less hard-headed than Rol).
EDITED TO ADD:I almost forgot one sighting that was a real kicker: A woman giving away free samples of some kind of cookies... and she looked eeriely like the "Enter the Matrix"/"Revolutions"/"Matrix Online" version of the Oracle.
Today, the district manager, one "Mr. Schmidt" (Who looks eeriely like a *young* Hugo Weaving; that and the last name make him even creepier to encounter) and his assistant -- a clone of Agent Jones, at least in looks -- showed up for an inspection. I was out breaking down aisles with one of the cashiers (One of the whiny ones, no less). The pair of grocery store-Agents approached her and started giving her the third degree. Meanwhile, I went about my business, straightening out the cans of Pringles and the boxes of pretzels. A moment later, they approached me and started asking me a few questions about how I liked working here. I kinda headed them off at the pass by telling them I'd worked for the company for over four years and that this was the cleanest, best-run store I'd worked in. No giving me the third degree, thank God.
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Date: 2005-08-27 03:27 am (UTC)I'm starting to think you could make a profit off of this. I wonder if the Wachowski brothers would be interested in a "Matrix Freak Show"...
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Date: 2005-08-27 03:50 am (UTC)Funny you should suggest fictionalizing this somehow: I've been twiddling off and on with a fanfic involving "the Kid" prior to his unplugging, and his after-school job as a bagger... and some strange things that happen in his workplace. Who knows? I might be able to sell it: according to the struggling comic-book artist I met yesterday, the Brothers Wachowski actually used someone's fanfics for a couple of the "Matrix Comics"
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Date: 2005-08-27 06:21 am (UTC)Wow, I didn't know they used some fanfics for comics. That's awesome! You might actually be able to get some money from it.
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Date: 2005-08-27 02:47 pm (UTC)~Weaver
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Date: 2005-08-29 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-29 03:38 pm (UTC)~Weaver