INT. COMMERCIAL
MAN #1, mid-forties, is dressed in business casual and sitting at his desk/cubicle in a standard issue office, looking very distraught as he looks through papers on his desk.
ANNOUNCER (V.O.)
Are you sick of doing menial yet somehow stressful tasks for your boss?
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WOMAN #1, middle-aged, and her husband lay in bed in a dark bedroom lit by moonlight; the woman restlessly tosses and turns while her husband lies peacefully beside her.
ANNOUNCER (V.O.)
Do you spend sleepless nights thinking about
how much you hate your job?
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MAN #2, in his mid 30’s, dressed in a suit and tie is standing at a copy machine spewing out paper all over the floor and shaking his head and turns around to face the camera/audience, still shaking his head and frowning.
ANNOUNCER (V.O.)
Don’t let hard times at work get you down;
call Brighter Horizons, Ltd. and we’ll
help you learn to embrace those data
spreadsheets and adore your cubicle!
Man #2’s face lights up.
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Man #1 stands in a factory behind an assembly line dressed in a white jacket and plastic hair cap, both splattered in what looks like blood, using an electric saw to trims chunks of beef as they pass by.
ANNOUNCER (V.O.)
Brighter Horizons, Ltd. will set you up in
a new career for a month to see how it
really feels to hate your job! Look how
excited this man is to return his accounting position
after working in a meatpacking plant!
He looks up at the camera and gives a big, queasy-looking smile.
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Woman #1 is wearing a jumpsuit covered in soot, climbing on top of a roof towards a chimney carrying large brushes and other gear.
ANNOUNCER (V.O.)
You’ll be dreaming of staying late at
the office and attending staff meetings
after successful completion of our one-
step program! Doesn’t this woman seem
ready for success?!
She reaches the chimney and starts to climb in. She turns to the camera, gives a very sooty half-smile and a thumbs up.
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Man #2 is dressed in work clothes covered in dirt and wearing a helmet with a light on the front; he’s walking along with other men dressed similarly towards the elevator to a mineshaft.
ANNOUNCER (V.O.)
We offer all sorts of industry options, from grave digging to working in a dog food factory! Don’t hesitate and be left wallowing miserably at the water cooler wondering what could have been; act now and let Brighter Horizons, Ltd. show you that office life really IS all it’s cracked up to be! Call today!
A large, flashing phone number and a liability warning in tiny print flash over the screen as man #2 gets into the elevator with the other men and begins to descend, showing the camera a terrified face.
Blackout.
2 comments:
or you could just spend your days selling tiny cars.... Tiny Cars RULE!
exactly. i ask you: where would the world be without tiny cars?? erika, i think the lesson to be learned here is to sell tiny cars. maybe you should start your own company and compete with nadine. your tagline could be: "tiny cars. can't fit in 'em, but they are sure are cute!" i'm brilliant. this is why i sit in a cube all day.
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