Factory Follies

(The camera opens on the Red Guy wearing a jacket and holding a briefcase in his hands as he walks up a flight of stairs to his factory office. He opens the door and shuts it behind him. He then drops his briefcase on the floor and takes off his jacket to hang it on the coat hook. He carelessly lets it go, falling on the floor, as Red grabs his hard hat, drops to the floor, and rolls across it to grab a cup of coffee on the counter nearby. A picture of Red is seen under the name "C.D. Hiney Industries", as he gets up and pours the coffee into his mug. He then obliviously drinks his coffee from the coffee pot and marches over to his recliner in front of a giant monitor set and the control panel. He sits down and turns to the desk slouching back. Red presses a button, turning on the cameras throughout the factory. He peeks with his eyes to see the clock strike 8:00 AM.)

Red Guy: "Oh!"

(He tosses the coffee pot away, where it smashes on the floor, and pulls the cord on the factory whistle, laughing with glee. Outside, the whistle blows loudly, and a group of factory workers march inside single file. He watches them take their places on the monitors, as the camera cuts to the main hall, where workers are still moving about to their places, while two of them sit at the conveyor belt with tired expressions and another one hops into his seat. The Red Guy then grabs the PA microphone, holding it in his fingers.)

Red Guy: "Good morning, staff!"

(The workers see a large TV screen turn on, showing Red's face.)

Red Guy: (cont.) "It's me, your boss. I hope you all slept well last night and had a yummy breakfast, 'CAUSE THERE'S NO LUNCH BREAK TODAY!" (His workers frown.) "Back to work, you worthless worms!"

(He snickers to himself, leans back in his recliner, and presses another button on his chair arm. This time, it activates another camera hidden in one of the machines, and while his workers are doing their jobs, the Red Guy grumpily wiggles the joystick, turning the camera to one of the factory machines, which pumps up and down, as two workers pass by it in different directions and a crane system carries the factory's products past it as well.)

Red Guy: (demandingly) "More pressure!"

(The machine works faster to produce more pressure.)

Red Guy: (snickering)

(The camera turns to see another pair of workers run a factory crane that picks up a part from a conveyor belt, as Red's face appears on another monitor.)

Red Guy: "Come on, ladies, put some more muscle into it!"

(Red turns his camera to a female worker putting blue paint on each joystick handle.)

Red Guy: "I said red; NOT BLUE!"

(The female worker switches to red paint this time and puts it on the next set of joystick handles, frustratedly. Red leans back in his recliner, laughing. Later, in another part of the factory, one of the monitors rises from a trapdoor, causing a worker carrying empty boxes to fall over the monitor. Red doesn't seem to take notice, as the camera cuts to the third pair of workers running a disc shaft press to make discs. Red appears on another monitor.)

Red Guy: "More disc shafts! Por favor."

(A worker in glasses is putting each spring coming down from a chute onto each product body.)

Red Guy: "More doodads!"

(The worker does so with frustration, as the fourth pair of workers are stoking coal into the factory furnaces.)

Red Guy: "More steam!"

(Red catches another worker sleeping on the job. He presses a button which activates an electric chair, causing him to yelp in pain and clutch his butt.)

Red Guy: "You're fired."

(Red cackles, leaning farther in his recliner, that the workers stare at their boss' butt cheeks. Red then leans up, as the workers look back at him.)

Red Guy: (angry) "What are you looking at? GET BACK TO WORK!"

(The 2nd pair of workers from earlier get back to running the crane.)

Red Guy: (banging his fist) "Work faster!"

(The workers run the crane faster.)

Red Guy: "FASTER!"

(The female worker paints the joysticks faster as Red looks on with satisfaction on the monitor. Back in his office, he races around in his recliner.)

Red Guy: "Faster, faster, faster!" (laughing)

(The workers from recently are shown again, starting with the worker in glasses.)

Red Guy: "Faster!"

(The worker puts the spring on the body.)

Red Guy: "Faster!"

(The workers stoke faster.)

Red Guy: "Faster!"

(The workers run the disc shaft press faster. Red cackles maniacally, and he tips back in his seat, hitting the whistle cord, while the workers are doing the best they can to work faster, but they're feeling more miserable than ever. The camera cuts back to Red's office. As the clock says 4:59, Red spins around his recliner.)

Red Guy: "Whee! Whee!" (stops spinning in his chair.)

(The clock strikes 5:00 as Red looks at it.)

Red Guy: "Dang."

(To be continued)