A Psycho IV

The silence in the room hides violence in its skin. There is Claire. She's the CEO of Nirvana Enterprises Inc. She looks so confident, and yet, she's the one who headed the EAH (Emotionally Available Husbands) project and it failed miserably. Nirvana stocks have plummeted.

-I suggest that we get a new CEO.

Jason Kang looks at me a bit quizzically. He'd probably like to have Cobra kill me off.

-It's just one failure. We still have a commodity made of Gold, Alternative Nuclear Fuel.

Yes, it's true. It's Jason's failure and he started this corporation. Everyone here is Korean or Korean-American.

-It's an EMBARRASMENT of the highest degree. Jason, you YOURSELF, should step down from being COO.

The atmosphere is tense and no one else says anything. No one has anything else to say. It's sad, the useless silence.

-Fred, calm down. Jason comes over and pats me on the back.

Claire graduated from Harvard Law School. She's intensely bright like a star, but she won't challenge Jason and often acts like a puppet.

Jason puts on his humble face.

-EAH was a bad idea. We cannot just take human resources and make them into stocks. Human resources are a variable and it is difficult to manage them. How was I supposed to know that they would develop sexual desire for American women?

-They are human beings. They spent six months doing all the housely chores of American women. They developed sympathy and empathy and they picked up English. People are not things, Jason.

-They ought to be things. You are more like a thing than a person, Fred.