For a long time, most people would have thought I was lucky. I had a stable job, a nice house, good friends—everything I could have asked for, really. But there was one problem.
The company I worked for, Hypersolutions Ltd, was starting to flounder, and my job was starting to not be so stable. Employees were being laid off and bonuses denied—and everyone knew it was bad, too, because, shockingly, the managers didn't even get their bonuses. Our competitor, Initiative Inc., developed a new system that let them served customers faster and better, and we were hemorrhaging customers because they all were leaving for Initiative.
So, the Vice President developed a plan for us to stay afloat. We would steal Initiative's new system, and use it so that our customers would no longer be dissatisfied with our service.
Initiative's headquarters had unassailable security—cameras and guards everywhere and traps in all sorts of places. (In fact, I heard rumors that the Vice president's plan wasn't