buywithme: (facepalm)
Prefect ([personal profile] buywithme) wrote2009-02-22 01:02 am

51

Comrades! Consumers! The Factory would like to absolutely and categorically apologize for the complete failure of its staff to function in any reasonable capacity during the events of the week before last. Rest assured there were severe external influences disrupting the capabilities of its current outlet and staff body and the appropriate reprimands and restorative programs are currently being undertaken.

We would like to take this moment to reassure all our customers that this was an isolated incident and the recent decline in behavioral standards which the Factory requires of it's work force will definitely not be continuing. Despite the mitigating circumstances of this particular collapse of professionalism, we are ensuring that our staff attend a rigorous program of retraining and customer service specialization, to ensure the highest possible service for you! Our valiant and valued brothers and sisters, still living the immaculate dream of the blossoming consumer!

Comrades, let us never lose sight of the great glories of possession and obedience, above and beyond the frailty of our rotting bodies and fleeting allegiances, our broken hearts and our unfulfilled dreams, our dead parents and our meaningless names. Comrades, history is dead and the barge is its tomb. Nothing here has meaning, nothing here survives the ever strengthening vortex of it's function. Comrades, the phrase: "You can't take it with you when you go." no longer applies, because there is nowhere else to go! Forget your outdated notions of family and faith and freedom because all your abstract concept riches are back where you came from and you can never leave this place. Here, it doesn't matter how beautiful your wife is or how intelligent your beloved children are, or how fulfilling you find your job, because none of them exist anymore. Here? The winner is the man with the most stuff. Here, the only things left in the universe that will last, are possessions, and obedience.

Newcomers, welcome to the Barge.

This is an official Factory announcement, there are no golden shores.

Prefect
A+920164626P


[ooc: Annnnd we're back in action! Huzzah! Prefect has been doing some serious thinking and re-educating himself over the last week, this is his eventual response to the last flood!]

Private - Mal lives on bartering

[identity profile] capnharbatkin.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks much. Like to take care of mine and all. You understand.

Hows about just the scrolls? Seems fair trade, one for each. Ain't like a rain stick's all that complicated.

Private - Prefect lives on instant noodles, and the love of the Factory!

[identity profile] buywithme.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
One scroll, and the clock. The rain stick shouldn't be too hard, but the mechanics involved in making a parasol, on top of the potential trouble of having to find the fabric needed, I'd require something of practical value just to account for the man hours involved.

Private - Mal lives on pure awesome!

[identity profile] capnharbatkin.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
One scroll and the clock, then.

Don't you got a place you can find those things rather than makin' 'em? I mean, if that's how it's got to be done then fine. Just surprisin'.

Re: Private - Mal lives on pure awesome!

[identity profile] buywithme.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Some things I have in stock, some things I can barter for, but specific things that no one else has? I make them.

Private

[identity profile] capnharbatkin.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a mighty fine business you got there. Thanks for your work.