Sudden Shock

Level 3

I didn’t go anywhere special for my sudden shock paper; what I did do was go to my work at Level 3 communications. I work an overnight shift with about four other people. I work as a security guard with another person and the three other people are a different type of security officer. I decided to watch the three others as I sat at my desk and pretended to look at my computer screen but was really looking over top of it at them.

They monitor different location sites across the nation to ensure the safety of the company’s buildings and assets. The buildings are very high tech and when a door is held open for too long, an alarm goes off and these three people get a phone to reset the alarm and document why it went off. These three people are James, Jessica and Melinda. James sits to the right of Jessica and Melinda sits behind Jessica.

Apparently today is the day for all the alarms to sound. Jessica is on the phone and has been for 15 minutes, Melinda’s phone has been ringing incessantly and she seems about to start yelling. James on the other hand is speaking too loudly about how a person he just spoke is causing another alarm he just reset. “WHY?! I just told you not to do that you damn idiot!!” “Are you dumb?!” James is building up and just when he is about to blow his top completely, Melinda covers up the mouthpiece of her phone, looks around her monitor screen and tells James, “Hey you gotta keep it down, I know you’re busy but my