INT. – AN OFFICE CUBICLE
ALAN, the storage admin, is in ECU with his snoring faceplastered up against a wall. Drool out of his mouth goessideways against the wall. The camera rotates to show hishead is laying on the former wall – his desk. JASON, a 15year-old boy who is our filmmaker, speaks.
JASON (O.C.)
Dad said what goes on here isn't
always pretty.
Jason turns the camera to himself…
JASON (CONT'D)
But I had no idea.
…then back to Alan. ROBERT, Jason's fatherinterrupts off-camera.
ROBERT (O.C.)
Jason, let's go.
Jason pans to Robert.
ROBERT (CONT'D)
We talked about this. Do you have
to record every-damned-thing?
JASON (O.C.)
No. But you have to admit that this
is –
PENNY, a middle-aged business analyst, appears.
PENNY (O.S.)
Robert, we have a problem.
The camera turns on Robert and Penny. Robert stutters for amoment.
(At this point, the words begin to sound auto-tuned, though
the actors are still speaking normally. A
harpsichord is in the background for the following speeches).
ROBERT
Um, Penny this is my son, Jason.
Take Your Kid To Work Day, so he's
here to observe us – and apparently
record us.
Penny gives an awkward acknowledgement to Jason/camera.
ROBERT (CONT'D)
(refers to Alan)
And….Homeboy?
PENNY
Don't wake him. Long, long, long night. Storage fail.Oh! And he
called the A/C guy….
(A beat underneath begins at this point.)
Jason finds AC guy on the roof.
A/C GUY
Yeah, I got a message about '*some problems with
the disco*'?
("Some problems with the disk-oh" is a hook line that can
later be in musical counterpoint with "Oh, nobody got time
for disk." Maybe in split screen?)
PENNY
(clarifying to Robert)
The disk arrays were overheating.
Again. And the electrical guy is
here to …to wire in more power for the
disk arrays.
ROBERT
…(saying at the same time) to wire in more power for the
disk arrays.
Terrific.
THE FOLLOWING VIGNETTES ARE FOR CHOPPING AND EXPERIMENTING INTHE EDIT.
Alan, exhausted, almost in tears, is in the midst of replacing a failed HDD.
ALAN
So this is me. This is what I do,
lately anyway. *Swapping disks*.
Really right now, I just want to
sleep. I mean, God…I haven't even
seen my cat in, like, 4 days.
You know? I've always had a dream
of having…a life. *Nobody got
time for disk*.
The Electrical Guy is setting up extra power.
ELECTRICAL GUY
Seems like I'm here every week. And
it's always '*more power. We need
more power*'. It's work, so I'm not
complaining. But hey, I'm an
electrician, not a magician.
The DBA sits at his desk, talking while working. A couplepictures innocuously sit there – one, of him and his girlfriend in afurry costume.
DBA
I've built the perfect database
layout. But the ffff….. data storage has been a
problem. I mean, I got a social life.
JASON
(This is where Jason has stolen a selfie himself nodding next
to the girlfriend picture to indicate…)
Yea Right.
Robert in a moment talking to the DBA in a corner of theoffice.
ROBERT (to Jason)
You got to *STOP,
ROBERT (to DBA)
….let’s got to take stock of
where we are, and hang on to what
we've got*.
INT: Conference Room:
Robert, Penny and DBA are walking in.
ROBERT
Robert is gently waking Alan. As Alan stirs, he bumps hismouse and his screen awakens. Robert double-takes at thescreen as Alan's head rises enough to look up. The PureStorage website is up.
ROBERT
(almost to himself)
Flash?
ALAN
Limitless snapshots?
The DBA appears over Alan's other shoulder.
DBA
Deduplication?
Penny appears.
PENNY
Purity?
ROBERT
Simplicity?
DBA
Guarantee?
ROBERT
That's for me.
The four of them walk through the office singing "Nobody gottime for disk", accumulating employees behind them in asimple walking dance, with Jason's POV in front of them.