Rentyre
You take a bus down to the company's main office. It's a long application, and you spend over an hour filling it out. You make up a few things for the next of kin information you don't know, but the rest of it is just tedious. The secretary files the information away, and you are soon a proud employee of Lion Construction.
They assign you to one of their "local worksites", which is a hilarious example of the company's organization- all of their work is local. It also seems to be the only worksite they have, but you decide not to be a smartass until you're certain you'll have steady work.
You show up fifteen minutes early on your first day. You want to suck up to your foreman, but more importantly, you want to see the machines they've got.
Not the construction machines, but the Rentyre machines. Rentyra Co.'s niche may be the common people, but they do sell other machines for commercial usage. These machines, nicknamed Botters, allow companies to give their employees robot bodies while on the job. It's perfect for high risk environments, and cuts fatalities by a drastic amount.
The reason a Botter is better than a Rentyre is two-fold. For one thing, a Rentyre only switches. If a Rentyre puts a human into a robot, it's usually because that person is dying. After the person has been put into a robot, he can't leave it. He can only switch with someone else. A Botter doesn't have that limitation. A person can leave the robot body in a Botter, not just switch with someone else.
The other reason for a Botter's superiority is sheer number. One Botter column has twenty different chambers, which connects to another column that comes with twenty complimentary robot bodies. Employees are assigned a number within the column, and can Rentyre into their robot body at their leasure.
You watch in fascination as other employees walk in one of the chambers, and then walk out as a robot without missing a step. It's almost as if they're teleporting. You watch this a few more times before a thought occurs to you.
They assign you to one of their "local worksites", which is a hilarious example of the company's organization- all of their work is local. It also seems to be the only worksite they have, but you decide not to be a smartass until you're certain you'll have steady work.
You show up fifteen minutes early on your first day. You want to suck up to your foreman, but more importantly, you want to see the machines they've got.
Not the construction machines, but the Rentyre machines. Rentyra Co.'s niche may be the common people, but they do sell other machines for commercial usage. These machines, nicknamed Botters, allow companies to give their employees robot bodies while on the job. It's perfect for high risk environments, and cuts fatalities by a drastic amount.
The reason a Botter is better than a Rentyre is two-fold. For one thing, a Rentyre only switches. If a Rentyre puts a human into a robot, it's usually because that person is dying. After the person has been put into a robot, he can't leave it. He can only switch with someone else. A Botter doesn't have that limitation. A person can leave the robot body in a Botter, not just switch with someone else.
The other reason for a Botter's superiority is sheer number. One Botter column has twenty different chambers, which connects to another column that comes with twenty complimentary robot bodies. Employees are assigned a number within the column, and can Rentyre into their robot body at their leasure.
You watch in fascination as other employees walk in one of the chambers, and then walk out as a robot without missing a step. It's almost as if they're teleporting. You watch this a few more times before a thought occurs to you.