Sugarcane

You decide to take the table of wealthy businessmen. As expected, they are very somber and leave more than adequade tips. However, you are able to see that your co-worker has had an immense amount of trouble with the rowdy table; large orders, loud outbursts, and even complaints from nearby customers.\n\nThe next day, your manager scolds you severely for taking the easy way out and pawning the table off to your co=worker. As a result, you are reassigned to tables that tend to be rowdier and leave less tips.\n\nAs time goes on, this change becomes increasingly problematic. Your small wage, combined with the lower tips you are recieving, are not only not allowing you to move out of your motel room or buy better food, but are instead hindering your quality of life even further. Your supervisors at Wal-Mart, unsatisfied with your split commitment, then decide to terminate you. With no money to pay for Rent, and no time to fully take on a second job, you find yourself forced to quit your job as a waiter, with only one option left: a job in [[Construction]]

Though you have quit your job at Wal-Mart, you perservere in your work at the construction site, and you are able to experience at least some degree of comfort in your life. Though you are somewhat fatigued and have little time to yourself, the pay and the promise of a better future keeps you going.\n\nOne day at work, you notice that a coworker is having trouble moving some heavy materials elsewhere on the construction site. Accidentally dropping the , the man becomes trapped under their immense weight. There are plenty of workers closer to him then you are, but in the split second since the accident, none have acted yet. What should you do?\n\n[[Abandon your post, risk being fired, and help the man out from under the weight of the building materials|Hero]]\n\n[[Stay on duty, and assume someone else will help the man|Bystander]]

Once in the hospital, you are informed that your overworking has sustained significant damage to your hips, arms, and legs, that you may not recover from for some time, if at all. Your lack of sleep has also taken its toll on your mental and physical health. Your doctor advises you that there is simply no way you can continue working at the construction site without ending right back up in the hospital again very soon. With the hospital bills taking up the very last of your extended wages, you can no longer pay for your apartment, and you have no choice but to return to your beginnings and choose one of the [[other jobs|Start]] you considered earlier.

You are a vagrant, with only a small amount of money in your pocket and no family or friends to reach out to. As a high school drop-out, your resume is less than impressive. With few options, you have decided to make a go of it in a new city. Unemployed, your only options are to live in a small motel on the edges of town until you can afford to move to a proper home. In the meantime, your search for employment begins. After checking the classifieds, you locate three optimal options for jobs near you:\n\n[[A job as a clerk at the local Wal-Mart, which offers low pay but semi-reasonable hours|Wal-Mart]]\n\n[[A job waiting Tables at a nearby restaurant, at which you will have to depend in part on tips|Restaurant]]\n\n[[A job in construction which offers above-average pay but will require long hours and a large degree of labor|Construction]]\n\nWhich will you choose?

You decide to take the job at the local Restaurant. A small diner, they interview you for a typical job as a waiter. Following some typical introductory questions, the restaurant manager evantually contacts you and offers you the job, which you choose to accept.\n\nWork at the restaurant isn't too difficult; though you sometimes have to deal with a rowdy customer or co-worker, the pay is semi-reasonable, and the tips is usually are as well (depending on the customer, of course). The hours are also fair; even with your work at Wal-Mart, you are at least able to get some sleep at night. The combined wages have allowed you better food and amenities, and you may soon be able to move into a nice apartment. Nonetheless, times remain tough.\n\nOne particular day, during the lunch rush, you spot a [[very rowdy table|Rowdy2]] near your section that has yet to receive a waitress.

You rush over to help your co-worker. Though at first no one else comes over to your aid, you are able to perservere others to help. Together, you are able to lift the materials off of your co-worker, who graciously thanks you for saving him from what could have been a major health emergency.\n\nOnce your supervisor hears of the events, he applauds your efforts. You are offered a promotion to an assitant managerial position, one with significantly better pay and slightly shorter hours. With the decrease in hours, you are able to catch up on your sleep and avoid the exhaustion and pain that has plaugued you since you originally began working at the construction site. With the added cash, you are finally able to move out of the motel and buy a terrific apartment and good food. Life is finally looking up.\n\nEND\n\n[[Play again?|Start]]

Times at the shelter are immensely difficult. You live in digusting conditions, with grime and dirt everywhere. Supervisors and government workers that run the shelter are often ineffective and on occasioan even malicious, and none are sympathetic to your unemployment. With no money, no home, and no one to reach out to, your future looks very grim. You pass your days in the shelter with little hope of employment, living off scraps and even resorting to begging. You want to concieve of a better future for yourself, one outside of the shelter, but you no longer can.\n\nEND\n\n[[Play again?|Start]]

You decide to toughen up and brave the rowdy table of teenagers. Through their outbursts are so loud that you have to apologize to customers around them, you manage to take their complicated and large orders accurately and on time. As they leave, you find that they didn't tip quite so badly after all.\n\nOver the next few months,Your manager soon notices your hard work with the rowdy table and with other custmoers and commends you for it. He offers you an assistant manager position at the restaurant, which comes with a substatntial pay raise. You graciously [[accept.|SucessWaiter2]]

A large, loud, and downright obnoxious group of teenagers has sat in a table near your section. You are relatively new to the job, and not only do they not look like a particularly nice group of people, you also believe they might not be the best tippers. The table is close enough to one of your fellow waiter's sections for you to pawn it off to him and take a table that is easier to handle. Will you:\n\n[[Take the table of teenagers, risking becoming responsible for the trouble they may cause and risking recieving a small amount of tips, which would affect your livelihood|TakeTable2]]\n\n[[Pass the table on to your co-worker, and take up a nearby table that seems just as large but filled instead with quiet and seemingly affluent businessmen|AbandonTable2]]

You decide to take the job as a construction worker. Following a short interview, you are hired almost immediately; the company seems to need any help they can get.\n\nThough the work is hard, and the hours long, the pay allows you to buy proper food for yourself, and you are even able to start considering a move out of the motel and into a small apartment.Nontheless, due to the duties of your job, the time you are actually able to spend there is very small.\n\nAfter a couple months of hard work, your supervisors notice your dedication and offer you a substantial pay raise, with the caveat that your hours would have to be increased even further. Though you would have almost no time to spend at home, such a pay raise would allow you to move into a proper apartment and live a semi-comfortable life. Will you:\n\n[[Take the pay raise and work longer hours|Glutton]]\n\n[[Graciously turn down the offer and say that you need more time at home to rest|Rest]]

Seven point Twenty-Five

Once in the hospital, you are informed that your overworking has sustained significant damage to your hips, arms, and legs, that you may not recover from for some time, if at all. Your lack of sleep has also taken its toll on your mental and physical health. Your doctor advises you that there is simply no way you can continue working at the construction site without ending right back up in the hospital again very soon. With the hospital bills taking up the very last of your extended wages,you can no longer pay for your apartment, or even the motel room you used to have. With no other options, you are forced into a homeless [[|Shelter]]

Despite the difficulties of working at both the construction site and at Wal-Mart, the combined wages allow you to move out of the motel and into an apartment, and you are also able to buy good food and some basic amenities. However, your are constantly exhausted, your limbs are always in pain, and you get a almost impoosibly small amount of sleep each night.\n\nOne day at work at Wal-Mart, while moving some simple products around, you suddenly feel faint; things soon [[fade to black.|Hospital2]]\n\n

You decide to take the job as a construction worker. Following a short interview, you are hired almost immediately; the company seems to need any help they can get.\n\nThough the work is hard, and the hours long, the pay allows you to buy proper food for yourself, and, with the help of extra wages from Wal-Mart, you are even able to start considering a move out of the motel and into a small apartment.Nontheless, due to the duties of both of your jobs, the time you are actually able to spend there is very small, and you are getting almost no sleep each night.\n\nThe stress of both jobs is beginning to take it's toll, and your limbs begin to ache at nearly all times. Nontheless, the added pay from both jobs will allow you to live a comfortable middle class life. Will you:\n\n[[Quit your job at Wal-Mart to maintain your health|Rest2]]\n\n[[Keep both jobs in order to make a decent living |HardWorker]]\n\n

You decide to take the job at the local Restaurant. A small diner, they interview you for a typical job as a waiter. Following some typical introductory questions, the restaurant manager evantually contacts you and offers you the job, which you choose to accept.\n\nWork at the restaurant isn't too difficult; though you sometimes have to deal with a rowdy customer or co-worker, the pay is semi-reasonable, and the tips is usually are as well (depending on the customer, of course). The hours are also fair, allowing you to at least get a decent night's sleep. Nontheless, the pay has not yet allowed you to move out of the motel or buy particularly nutritious or well-made food. Still, you perservere, hoping the job will take you places in the future.\n\nOne particular day, during the lunch rush, you spot a [[very rowdy table|Rowdy]] near your section that has yet to receive a waitress.

You abandon your post and walk over to Sandra to help her up. You guide her to the employee break room and make sure she takes a rest and stays hydrated.When you are sure she is doing okay, you return to your post.\n\nThe next day, you recieve a reprimanding from your supervisor. Though you try to explain that Sandra needed help, your supervisor presses the point that you abandoned your responsibilities as a clerk. Though you are scolded, you do not lose your job. Nontheless, tensions between you and your supervisor remain high, though Sandra and your other fellow employees seem to get along with you even better.\n\nAs the days go by, the low wage that Wal-Mart pays you simply isn't covering your expenses. You can't afford proper food and you still have not ben able to move out of the motel. With no other choice, you find yourself forced to find a second job. Will you choose:\n\n[[A job waiting Tables at a nearby restaurant, at which you will have to depend in part on tips|Restaurant2]]\n\n[[A job in construction which offers above-average pay but will require long hours and a large degree of labor|Construction2]]\n\n

A large, loud, and downright obnoxious group of teenagers has sat in a table near your section. You are relatively new to the job, and not only do they not look like a particularly nice group of people, you also believe they might not be the best tippers. The table is close enough to one of your fellow waiter's sections for you to pawn it off to him and take a table that is easier to handle. Will you:\n\n[[Take the table of teenagers, risking becoming responsible for the trouble they may cause and risking recieving a small amount of tips, which would affect your livelihood|TakeTable]]\n\n[[Pass the table on to your co-worker, and take up a nearby table that seems just as large but filled instead with quiet and seemingly affluent businessmen|AbandonTable]]

Your job as assistant manager at the restaurant goes very well. You get along great with your co-workers, and the restaurant even seems to be running better with you at the (assistant) helm. Your substantial pay raise allows you to move out of the motel and into an adequate apartment. With the new pay raise, you no longer need to work at Wal-Mart and are able to quit your job as a clerk. You can even afford some basic luxuries like television and a computer, and you are dining on food better than you have eaten in recent memory. At long last, you are finally on the path to a comfortable life.\n\nEND\n\n[[Play again?|Start]]

You show up promptly and dressed in your best. Greeted by a supervisor, you got through an obligatory job interview with a group of other perspective employees. The typical questions are asked, and you believe you are doing well. Following the interivew, you are offered a minimum-wage full-time job at Wal-Mart, but you are informed that you will have to undergo a drug test first. Though you are not a frequent drug user, You know that your past isn't entirely clean, and you aren't quite sure what the results of the test will be. Will you:\n\n[[Take the test, and risk both not getting the job and hindering any chances of your future employment.|Pass]]\n\n[[Don't take the test, and choose another of the two jobs you found earlier.|Start]]

With your new extended hours, you are able to afford terrific food and move into a great apartment. However, you are able to sleep only 4-5 hours a night, and your bones begin to ache even while not moving building materials while on the job.\n\nOn one unfourtunate day, while attemptng to move some blocks of wood, you feel faint and suddenly [[collapse from exhaustion.|Hospital]]

As a result of your promotion, you seem to be enjoying coming to work just a little bit more each day. The work isn't as physically grueling and the increased pay is a terrific boon.\n\nSoon enough, your increased pay allows you to finally buy a proper apartment in the city, one even nicer than you had expected to affordbefore. You finally have the means to experience a proper life, and with your new earnings you can finally afford proper groceries and amenities.\n\nYour work as Assistant Manager has been recieving great feedback from your supervisor. Though some of your employees don't always agree with your leadership style or find you particularly pleasent to work under, the store seems to be running better as a result of your work. You are on track to gradually climb the corporate ladder, and it looks like you're finally on your way to a better life.\n\nEND\n\n[[Play again?|Start]]

Your job as assistant manager at the restaurant goes very well. You get along great with your co-workers, and the restaurant even seems to be running better with you at the (assistant) helm. Your substantial pay raise allows you to move out of the motel and into an adequate apartment. You can even afford some basic luxuries like television and a computer, and you are dining on food better than you have eaten in recent memory. At long last, you are finally on the path to a comfortable life.\n\nEND\n\n[[Play again?|Start]]

After the incident, Sandra manages to negotiate a few days of rest with your supervisor, but she eventually returns to her job seemingly none the worse for wear. Nontheless, you will be the recipent of angry glares and the cold shoulder from her for some time.\n\nHowever, as time goes on, Sandra remains at her job while your work is being recognized as exemplary. One day, your supervisor, unusually pleased, comes to offer you a promotion to Assistant Manager. The job would mean a very significant increase in pay with similar hours to your entry-level job now. You would be a fool not to [[take the job.|Promotion]]

One day, while you are going through your regular shift at Wal-Mart stocking items, you find that a fellow employee and a recent friend of yours, Sandra, looks faint and as if she might pass out. You know that she has not been able to afford to eat a full square 3 meals a day, but she has come in to work day in and day out. You want to help her, but such a move would be incredibly risky. Your supervisor is incredibly strict, and going off-duty on your own work, even for such a justified reason, would likely result in a reprimanding, putting your job and ability to provide for yourself in jeopardy. What will you do?\n\n[[Stop what you are doing and help out Sandra and incur the risks|Samaritan]]\n\n[[Continue with your shift as planned|OneforAll]]

Your supervisor does not treat your standing by idly well. You and other workers nearby are heavily scolded for not even attempting to help your co-worker, who sustained permenant damage to his legs as a result. For not at all trying to help your co-worker, your supervisor tells you that he cannot abide employing a worker who will not even stop to help his fellow man. You are terminated from your construction job. Your money slowly runs out paying for food and remaining motel bills, and evantually you cannot even afford your small room any longer. With nowwhere else to go, you are forced to move in at the local homeless shelter, in which you live in [[deplorable conditions.|Shelter]]

Though you have refused the pay raise, you perservere in your work at the construction site, and you are able to experience at least some degree of comfort in your life. Though you are somewhat fatigued and have little time to yourself, the pay and the promise of a better future keeps you going.\n\nOne day at work, you notice that a coworker is having trouble moving some heavy materials elsewhere on the construction site. Accidentally dropping the , the man becomes trapped under their immense weight. There are plenty of workers closer to him then you are, but in the split second since the accident, none have acted yet. What should you do?\n\n[[Abandon your post, risk being fired, and help the man out from under the weight of the building materials|Hero]]\n\n[[Stay on duty, and assume someone else will help the man|Bystander]]

You decide to take the table of wealthy businessmen. As expected, they are very somber and leave more than adequade tips. However, you are able to see that your co-worker has had an immense amount of trouble with the rowdy table; large orders, loud outbursts, and even complaints from nearby customers.\n\nThe next day, your manager scolds you severely for taking the easy way out and pawning the table off to your co=worker. As a result, you are reassigned to tables that tend to be rowdier and leave less tips.\n\nAs time goes on, this change becomes increasingly problematic. Your small wage, combined with the lower tips you are recieving, are not only not allowing you to move out of your motel room or buy better food, but are instead hindering your quality of life even further. With no money to pay for Rent, and no time to fully take on a second job, you find yourself forced to quit your job as a waiter and apply for a new one; you are right back where you [[began|Start]]

You take the test and, a few days later, you find out that you pass! You are formally hired as a clerk at Wal-Mart.\n\nAs the days go by, you find working at Wal-Mart somewhat discouraging. Your supervisor can be very strict and arrogant, and your co-workers range from compassionate to downright malicious. What's more, the work is often banal and unfuffilling. You spend most of your days restocking the store's items or helping customers with their purchases; your days blend together, each seemingly indistinguishable from the last. Still, low as the pay is, it's better than being unemployed. You have been able to aquire a reasonable amount of food, though nearly all of it is pre-packaged or comes in a can.\n\nAfter a few months at Wal-Mart, you remain at the Motel, unable to afford upfront the security deposits required to rent even the most bare of apartments. Still, you remain optimistic that, in time, [[your work at Wal-Mart will pay off.|Moral Dilema]]

Jason Rubenfire