Chapter 409 Intern (2)
A corporation that provides a variety of goods and services and seeks profits accordingly, an essential producer in modern society based on capitalism.
A huge and irresistible wave of change has recently been spreading among these companies, which are struggling to obtain the maximum benefit at the minimum cost.
– Existing game companies going down. 82% have already closed their businesses or switched industries.
– The decline of the tourism industry. The cause is the emergence of a metaverse based on virtual reality.
– Rich and diversified content industry. Securing excellent IP and creators is the key.
Virtual reality technology has had a near-devastating impact on many entertainment-related companies, including the previously popular gaming and tourism industries. Therefore, companies that rejected the innovation and did not jump on the trend of change and stuck to the existing method experienced an unbelievable decline in sales and were immediately eliminated from related industries.
[Virtual reality is a huge paradigm shift that cannot be avoided as a company. Billions of consumers around the world have already adapted to virtual reality, and future consumers will become familiar with it as well. There is no future for companies that reject that huge market and innovation.]
[The public enjoys a break and tours in the Fantastic Universe created by Mizuni. I also subscribe to Webflix to see contents with excellent visual beauty created based on lucid dream, and visit the huge Wilmart store in virtual reality and shop at home.] Everything is implemented in virtual reality and begins to quickly replace reality
. world. That’s why, regardless of specific industries, companies that are known for themselves have begun to pursue numerous projects with the ambition to introduce virtual reality. And the department that Jaeyoung, who applied for an internship at the Department of Virtual Reality Engineering, entered was also closely related to virtual reality.
“Yeah… You said you came from the Department of Virtual Reality Engineering at Seomin University?”
A middle-aged man looking at Jae-young’s personal history with an eye that is quite interesting. Glancing at the name and position written on his necklace, Jaeyoung nodded.
“yes.”
“Yes….. I am Park Jin-tae, general manager of KG Electronics’ virtual reality division. It’s the person you’ll be working with in the future, so remember your face and name well.”
“All right.”
He has the appearance of a typical old man office worker with a bulging stomach and a swollen face. Jaeyoung felt a bit burdened by his kind actions that were a bit burdensome, but he finished his first greeting with him and other people in the same department without showing any signs.
“Enough of the face-to-face ….. Get details and handovers related to work from Assistant Manager Go Dong-ho over there. He’s your shooter and he’s the person in charge of what you’re going to do, so he’ll be the most helpful.”
After that, Manager Park Jin-tae waved his hand and asked to go. And then, assistant manager Go Dong-ho, who had a sharp look, approached and began to tell Jae-young all kinds of things.
“In conclusion, what you and I have to do in this department is to plan a project that can be applied to our company in relation to virtual reality and do what is necessary to ensure that it runs smoothly without any problems in the process of promoting it. You have to be a kind of all-around player.”
“Hmm… I think I know how it feels.”
“Well, don’t worry too much. You’re an intern anyway, so you won’t be asked to do anything so important, so just do what you’re told to do, don’t make mistakes and do it well. Normally, you’d be in charge of chores like taking meeting minutes and copying documents. All I have to do is lend a hand little by little to the busy team members.”
“All right. Then how can I help you?”
“Then can you make 30 copies of this document first? All on both sides.”
“yes. I’ll start right away.”
Assistant manager Dongho Koh said that he had nothing to worry about other than chores. And as he said, Jae-young’s intern life was very smooth.
Departure at 9:00 in the morning. 12 noon lunch. Get off work at 6pm.
Repeated daily life that rolls like a treadmill at set times.
In the first place, it seemed that he did not expect much, perhaps because it was a short-term intern at a college student for three months, but it was KG Electronics, a large company that competed with Ajin Electronics, a world-leading electronics company, for the No. was not at all
“Even an office worker should be able to do this, but…”
Unlike when playing games, a strange sense of accomplishment and pride came over me.
Jae-young, who realized the value of labor for the first time, began to think seriously about the future.
‘Should I choose an ordinary company later and get a job?’
Jae-young, who already has such a ruinous level of wealth that he can’t use it even if he spends his whole life.
Jaeyoung enjoyed this moment even though he did not have to work for the rest of his life because he ate up the thousands of trillion won of secret funds hidden by the CCP.
“Rather than being treated as a rich unemployed, it’s best to just live a normal life like this.”
Jae-young imagines herself getting a job at a suitable company and receiving a salary without worrying about money. He was experiencing the daily life he had exactly dreamed of, who always pursued a normal and quiet life without standing out.
A company that works 5 days a week and leaves on time.
Of course, it was possible because he was an intern, but Jaeyoung, who fell into the idea that the company was not as bad as he thought, looked at the dust that settled on the capsule installed on one side of his room.
“Come to think of it… It’s already been over a month…”
It’s been a month since the last access to the game.
Jae-young, who applied for an internship and was accepted right away, took part in KG Electronics’ intern training program and all sorts of miscellaneous things and left it unattended to start work.
I checked the current status of the game from time to time through Arfandia, but I hadn’t logged in even once because nothing special happened.
“Are those guys doing well…?”
Jae-young thinks of Tan and L with a curious expression since it is the first time he has been away this far, except when he was kidnapped by the Japanese intelligence agency. And soon, while he was away, he smiled as he imagined the two beings wielding a fist the size of that small fist and fighting fiercely.
“See you after the internship period.”
Even though they are NPCs in the game, Jae-young feels like a close friend after spending a long time together. However, since he was really enjoying his intern life now, he pondered for a moment before taking his hand off the capsule and laying down on the bed, closing his eyes.
Wake up early tomorrow morning to go to work.
* * *
Arcadia Co., Ltd. is in charge of all virtual reality technologies, including Arcadia’s services.
Hundreds of thousands of companies knock on the door of Arcadia Co., Ltd. every day, angry consumers make a fuss over the phone for some reason, and reporters trying to find even a story somehow roam this company, where every day is a break. It was literally like a battlefield.
“Huh… I’m really going to die after declaring the final chapter or something.”
“Hey, don’t talk. Since the boss mentioned that Arcadia could be destroyed, the Ministry of Information and Communication is just a harpoon. They say calls come from all over the place without stopping.”
“How about the CS side? The public affairs department is still gentlemanly, but the general consumer complaints are just wild, wild. I don’t know where only the barbarian bastards are gathered and why they are so foul-mouthed.”
“Is it true that all complaints have to be filed in the legal team? I wonder why they keep saying the same thing even when they say it’s
an issue that we don’t even know about ….. Is it that you don’t even plan or investigate to some extent and your mind is really at the level of ‘do it’, to the point where you have the urge to kill?”
In-house alumni meeting of Arcadia Co., Ltd. A place for employees from various departments to express their grievances. They openly talked about the shitty things about their company life, gossiped about their bosses, and relieved their accumulated stress.
And then, someone brought up a story about President Lee Mi-yeon.
“Hey, boss, why are you doing this these days? It’s low pressure every time we meet.”
“uh? that’s right. I ran into him in the hallway the other day and said hello, but he passed by very coldly.”
“The other day, my department suddenly came and said something. Because of that, our general manager, even today, was walking around with a completely shit-chewed expression, so I was really dying to notice.”
CEO Lee Mi-yeon, who usually walks around with a smile on her face and faces the employees brightly.
Although she throws all sorts of shit at work and makes everyone shocked by her more extreme and crazier ideas than anyone else, she is still rumored to be a humane and warm-hearted person. However, in the past month, she has suddenly turned into an extraordinary villain.
“Why did you suddenly start acting so arrogantly and hysterically?”
“So. Has anything happened recently? Isn’t it because of that final chapter or something?”
“no. Right after it was announced, there were no problems. Other than that, I guess.”
“Have you ever been in trouble at the board of directors…?”
Everyone doesn’t know why, but CEO Lee Mi-yeon is upset about something. However, an employee who was quietly listening to their story told a meaningful story with a cautious face.
“When I see it, it’s not that he’s angry… he looks like he’s nervous about something.”
“what….?”
“There is such a person. If you get nervous and angry without realizing it when you are nervous and anxious. From what I’ve seen, the boss seems to be in that kind of situation. I am worried and anxious and do not know what to do.”
At that, everyone gave the same puzzled expression and tilted their heads. And after that, all sorts of assumptions and speculations were poured out among them, but no one could find out why President Lee Mi-yeon suddenly changed.
“…Ellis, how was your day?”
A dark night after everyone has been off work. However, as she sat in her office, biting her nails with her long teeth, President Lee Mi-yeon, with a face full of nervousness, asked Ellis the same question she had been asking over and over again.
[Same as before. There is no play history for that user today.]
Jaeyoung, who had been playing Arcadia every day for a long time. He was so immersed in the game that an expert immediately diagnosed him as a serious game addict, but one day, when he suddenly stopped playing Arcadia, President Lee Mi-yeon felt nervous as time passed.
‘why….? Why suddenly…?’
President Lee Mi-yeon looked closely at his last play history through Ellis, wondering if there was something wrong. However, she could not find a specific cause even after looking at it several times.
“Can’t I just go and ask Alice?”
She feels like she wants to visit right away and ask her directly. However, with Ellis’s strong advice, he tried to suppress that urge.
[The action of going directly to the player is analyzed to be counterproductive with a high probability considering the player’s disposition. Rebellious… To be more precise, it is a user with a tendency like a tree frog. I think it’s best to just give time and wait without saying anything.]
Elise’s advice is to just watch and wait as if waiting for a prey to come, rather than putting firewood into a dying ember. That’s why she bit her nails with a nervous face today, waiting for the moment of disaster like a ticking time bomb.
“I’m going crazy, really…..”
An intern who dares to make the general president of Arcadia feel anxious and nervous. However, he was sleeping peacefully with a peaceful face ignoring the world without knowing such a fact.
While casting push and pull without even knowing it.
