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rock-paper-scissors!
paper, I won again.
yeah ok, but you always play paper!
it is the only thing I can play.
all right, all right, try again, let's see if this time...
Pipistrelli!
Oh god! Who are you?
First of all, talk properly when you speak to me, we are in a respectable firm, not in a primary school.
yes, I apologise...
...and secondly take these folders. You have to do 800 copies of each page for all the employees of our company.
800?
these are the new rules concerning privacy, the Director wants them ready by this evening; and bound.
yes, could you let me...
hurry, hurry, stop fooling around with this machine.
"machine"? you motherfu..
Hurry! Still not starting yet? hurry! The earlier you start the earlier you finish.
And tomorrow pay attention to be here on time. We keep our eyes on you. Pipistrelli, goodbye.
who is this madwoman?
the secretary.
and anyway, my name is Picistrelli, not Pipistrelli!
work!
good luck.
so, Flep, I have to print 20 copies of these modules, black and white, and 20 more of this company concept in full colours.
Can you add them to your memory?
positive. Insert them
Excuse me, are you the copy guy?
yes, I am Luca, tell me.
nice to meet you, I am Hired.
you mean Hired is actually your name?
no... no... I am hired. They offered me a permanent contract. I am an employee.
Oh my god.
oh... congratulations... I am...
...temporary. Yes you are temporary.
well... actually I would be a trainee, anyway...
that's it, exactly, temporary. On the edge, I would say. Me on the other hand, I am hired.
another one of them.
is he stupid, Flep?
worse, he is hired.
I didn't mean to interfere with your temporary duties. I leave you now, it was nice to meet you. Now I go to enjoy my permanent job office.
yes, thank you. But... did you need anything in particular?
No no no no... I just wanted to underline our different working conditions. See you soon, temporary guy.
see you soon... hired.
listen Flep, is there anybody sane in his mind in this company?
hearing this from one who talks with a copy machine seems a bit out of place.
you know what I would really like now? A tasty cheeseburger. Don't you ever know hunger?
I am a copy machine, don't forget it.
well look, according to me hunger is one of those needs that a human should always feel, like the need to go to the toilette...
indeed I am not human...
..or the need to watch tv...
I repeat: I am not human.
I would like to have the need to switch you off.
executed.
what?
I updated the uploadable mp3 list on my inner memory
sorry, but can a copy machine play music?
of course. listen.
ah... and what type of music would you listen to?
Cristina d'Avena mainly, but I prefer her in the early '90s sound. Those are more experimental sounds, more conceptual. Nothing to do with the pseudo-progressive and noisy rhythms of the 2000s.
ok, ok, you are not credible as a music expert.
"Scorpio: be careful about interpersonal relationships, and mind your health in weekdays. Family situation is good".
are you reading horoscopes?
Yes, you are probably not going to believe it, but I can get easily influenced.
movements of planets do not influence human behaviour.
Considering further that in this moment we are amongst planets, even allowing for their influences on your behaviour and on your decisions, we would be outside of their reach.
All right, anyway my horoscope is awful. I should touch iron.
Open the paper tray and touch my inner layer if you so wish.
Translation by Marco Ferraro.