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Weekly Contest #85
“They can’t do that!” I told John. The robots were basically taking over the city. They elected a robot mayor too. One week ago they decided to fire a bunch of people and hire robots instead. All the companies fired all the people who did a simple job, like throwing away the trash or fixing cars. I was a software engineer and my friend, John was a car mechanic. Ever since he got fired, he has been living in my apartment. There were protests against this new change but nothing had been done to change it since the mayor is a robot. John and ...
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