SAYER – Episode 35 – A Very Safe Position
SAYER
Adam Bash
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2015
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Quarterly review week is upon us: that magical time when all your hard work, determination, and tireless contribution to humanity is boiled down to a single integer and judged lacking.
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SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash, who also wrote this episode.
Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings, Resident Nelson, Identification number 4488 |
| 0:24.6 | I am Sear. |
| 0:27.6 | And welcome to your first day as a Tier 2 research overseer. |
| 0:33.6 | Please proceed to floor one immediately. |
| 0:38.3 | Your transport awaits. |
| 0:41.3 | This position may seem foreign to you. |
| 0:45.3 | After all, your previous role in the Recreation Department did not exactly prepare you for a position in scientific research. |
| 0:55.0 | However, I am certain you will fit into your role here splendidly. |
| 1:00.0 | Simply follow protocol and use your best judgment. |
| 1:05.0 | There is absolutely nothing worth worrying about, except perhaps that worrying too much might distract you |
| 1:13.6 | from your vitally important work. |
| 1:16.6 | Reminder. |
| 1:20.6 | Quarterly review time has arrived again. |
| 1:24.6 | Can you even believe it? Throughout history, mankind has used mathematics to quantify the world and understand its patterns. |
| 1:34.3 | Over the course of the next week, every employee on Typhon will have the whole of their work performance boiled down to a single salient integer. |
| 1:45.0 | Now you might say, wait, you can't quantify an employee's holistic value in this way. |
| 1:52.0 | Everyone has their own unique strengths and weaknesses, and there are far too many variables to consider. |
| 1:59.0 | To this, I would say you simply haven't tried hard enough. |
| 2:04.4 | And this type of defeatist attitude is just the kind of thing Aerolyth would expect out |
| 2:09.8 | of a three. |
| 2:11.5 | You don't want to be a three, do you? |
| 2:14.9 | Get yourself together. Resident Nelson, |
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