MegaGlobalBankCorp

Like other annual chronological indicators: the chilly nights closing in, the browned leaves gently falling from sparse trees and the swallows departing for sunnier climes - the Graduates have arrived. After their month or so of induction, indoctrination, being tattooed with the company logo and having the locater and id bio chip inserted they have been released in to the wild at MegaGlobalBankCorp (MGBC (tm)) towers where I work as a corporate drone oiling the cogs of Global Capitalism.

Seeing their young, fresh, eager, terrified faces always brings a little warmth to by cold dark stony heart.

Bless their cotton socks, their new suits and attempts at earnest and interested expressions failing to cover the look of absolute fear and horror as the realisation of what they have sighed up for finally dawns on them. The poor little fools! Why did they not suspect something when they were asked to sign in their own blood?

So they go about- sometimes in gangs, sometimes by themselves looking scared and lonely. They get under people's feet, they get cutely tangled up in a balls of wool in the corner and have to be rescued, they ask their funny questions - "What was that little one? Yes, that is a computer. You turn it on there. You sit in front of it and it slowly sucks out your will to live."

I feel like shouting at them - "Run, run while you still have a chance. Leave before you become a bitter, cynical, disillusioned veteran, battle weary from one too many office politics fights that have gone the wrong way, realising that nearly half your life is over and you have nothing to show for it. Run before the corporate machine slowly crushes your soul, before it grinds off any distinctive feature from your character." *

Hoping they see their chance and make a break for it. Hoping that I will be able hold off the security long enough for them to get to the door. But what is the point? They would never make it. GMBC owns them now. It owns us all.

* I jest it is not that bad. I love my job - it is interesting and it certainly pays well it is just... buzz... buzz... MUST NOT SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT MGBC IN PUBLIC... buzz...