John

For the most part, it had been a pretty normal day in the office for John - he had come in to a load of paperwork, several notes on his desk for things he needed to get done, and a computer that took a good twenty minutes before it would even allow him to input his password, much less get to work. His coffee was bland, but at least it woke him up, as he nodded irreverently at the repeated greetings of "John." They had all worked in the office for years - pleasantries had vanished quite some time ago.

He sat down at his desk to see the familiar "Good morning John" greeting on his desktop, accompanied by the password input. He typed it in mindlessly, sipping at his coffee, hoping it would wake him up faster, and picked up one of the sheets of orders as he waited for the computer to finish booting up. "You're better than this John." Typical, ungrateful notes from his boss. He decided to ignore them for now and get to his main workload. He didn't feel like being criticized before lunch.

He could only stand working for so long however, before the coffee sent him to the john. He stood alone, in silence, doing his business, hoping that the boss wouldn't walk in and try to talk to him while he was peeing. "John," he could practically hear in his head, "did you get my messages this morning? You look tired, John. You should really wake up."

The numbers on his computer screen were beginning to blur together as the day went on. John didn't understand why he was so tired. He had already had three cups of coffee, which had sent him to the John five times. It wasn't even lunch yet. He heard his co-workers talking. "John looks so tired. Why won't JOhn wake up. We NEED JOHN."

He jolted upright in his seat as they started screaming. His head was suddenly pounding. He looked around as JOHN words slammed into the walls like enormous JOHN birds slamming into JOHN car doors. He JOHN WAKE UP didn't know what was happening.

JOHN THIS CAN'T CONTINUE.

JOHN COME BACK.

JOHN.

It had been a fairly normal day in the office for John, for the most part. He had come in to a lot of work, multiple notes from his boss, a computer that wouldn't boot for a solid thirty minutes, and a terrible feeling that he needed to get out of the office.