I never just derail a train of thought. I make wrecks that catch the cars on fire.
Kalle had ‘disruptive influence’ on her permanent record. She had no idea what to expect when Central Administration sent her to a training camp. Her vague concepts were nothing like the experience before her.
“You are a disrupter,” said the uniformed Administrator Plexx on the stage. “You can use this to the advantage of many. Corporations around the globe will pay good money for strategic disrupters and SOME OF YOU–” she glared pointedly at a small group who’d started chatting, “–are more talented than others.”
Kalle couldn’t believe it. The people who had annoyed her mother at work… were people who were in the business of disrupting, interrupting, and otherwise breaking unauthorised chains of thought that could have lead to interesting inventions, profitable weapons, or lucrative medicines.
All because the people they were pestering were supposed to be doing low-level labor for their company.
Her mother had been on the verge of a eureka moment so many times… and now she was going to be one of Them.
Of course she studied. Disrupters got bonus pay. Bonus pay got perks. Perks got a better future for herself and her spawn. But… Kalle had seen what a Disrupter could do to a creative mind.
She had watched her mother wither with frustration. Pickle in anger and futility. Dim and fade with depression.
It wasn’t right. It wasn’t fair.
Kalle vowed, privately, to be the sort of Disrupter who disrupted the current goings-on of the world. She would find places for the unauthorised ideas and the idea-havers. She would let them have their eureka moments and then quietly ask what lit them up like a firework.
And then… she’d find a place for them to take it. People to help them. It wouldn’t matter to the companies if they lost or gained lower-level employees. But it would matter to the planet and the people who share it.
She just needed to remain subtle about it all. Lest she get a bad reputation.
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