The Good Citizen

Gabe, or as he preferred to be called, "Gabriel" was a good citizen.

Every day he would come to work. He always came early, but knew that corporations suffer when employees worked overtime, so he only punched in his hours for an appropriate amount. Some times, he would even feign being late, so as to ensure that his employers didn't have to pay him too much.

Every day, he'd call his mother after work. He had to be the one to call her, since his constant use of prepaid VoicePADs meant he never kept the same personal contact number.

"No sense in signing up for a contract when prepaids boost the economy more.", he muttered to himself alone in his cubicle. He checked his daily casts for the latest celebrity news. He subscribed to all of the different forums, even the mirrored sites just in case.

"THAT BETTER NOT BE CHIT CHAT I HEAR, SANTIAGO!"

Gabriel quickly buried his nose into his console, EMPLOYEE UNIT #32. He didn't want to upset his employer. Just to be safe, he shaved a few creds off of his payroll. The CEOs probably need every cred they can get to ensure a successful corporation.

As he continued his accounting, he realized a minor error. Due to a coding bug in the applications for Starlight Crusade Funding, Gabriel's company had accidentally qualified multiple times for the nonprofit organization's donations. But was it right for the corporation to take from a charity so many times? The corporation could always find use for the extra creds. Gabriel wanted to be a good citizen.