Yandere CEO x Reader who read the Communist Manifesto by Marx, understood it, and is a bit of a Marxist
CW: the word Bourgeoisie, bad alienating working conditions, Marxism, The literal Communist Manifesto beginning paragraph, Asking your boss for work benefits for everyone, guns mention, strikes mention, there’s a lil bit of Yandere tendencies, IA slander, I don’t think the ending can be expected easily, it is a bit one-sided this one
“A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre : Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Two things result from this fact:
I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.
II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.” You close for the book putting it in your backpack, it’s your 17th time re-reading it, but as always, just the incipit, the reference to the political situation of the time, so similar to yours in that aspect, where every politician accused the their rival party of communist while not having or (in the modern case) not knowing the definition of communist, makes you so so so thrilled.
You’d almost wish you were there at the time of the First International (the international conference that was held in 1864 where Marx participated and delineated Marxism).
Nonetheless you head to your job. It’s a pretty normal capitalistic firm: bourgeoise boss, monotone work that leads to workers’s alienation and almost no work benefits.
Fortunately for you, all of your co-workers, and most people in other departments as well, understand and support your point.
Today you will go into the CEO’s office to ask him for the new benefits you and your co-workers agreed on and, if they won’t comply, unionise you will! Cuz as Proletarians the only thing you have to lose is your chains! Your CEO won’t accept?! You’ll ALL leave! If you stand together they won’t be able to stop you!
That said you do also realise some of the things you all are asking are quite important and difficult to give: paid parental leave for a minimum of 3 months, a working heater in every office, the full legally biding written agreement not to replace ANY worker with AI (with much attention on the design and the general creative department, the Marketing department and the finance), higher wages for everyone and financial help (by giving even higher wages) to single parents.
Nonetheless you take a big breath, holding all the legal requests documents and head for the office.
You arrive in front of the massive wooden door of the CEO’s office. You find the door itself quite the insult: in the offices most of the doors need repairs or to be fully changed. For one person to have such a stupidly lavish door while all the others are rotting is simply unjust, you quite wonder what stupidly corporate expensive office you’ll see behind the door. Maybe it’ll even have three windows (more windows than the ones in your whole department).
You knock on the door and the CEO themselves opens it.
“It’s you! We have much to talk about! Especially, thank to your results I was thinking of promot-“ starts the CEO gesturing you to sit on the chair in front of their desk while looking at you in the eyes with a smile.
How truly insulting, to smile in the face of the working class while they suffer. Your CEO truly is one of the worst bourgeoisie to exist.
You sit on the chair and put all the documents on the table with a loud thud.
“I am here to represent my coworkers” you declare not even trying to keep up a corporate smile “We are asking you for more benefits”
“…Are they forcing you to do this? You really don’t have to, they are just trying to get you fired” answers the CEO while putting the documents on the side “I do guess this is a Wolf eat wolf world, but, truly, they are just being so unjust towards you, say what, I need a secretary and-“
“No one put me up to this, I suggested I should head here to ask for the benefits since I had suggested them” you say glaring at the CEO and putting the documents back at the centre of the table.
“You don’t have to lie to me, I know how some of the people in my offices can be pressing on these matters, but I’ll assure you I’ll make sure no one will annoy-“ they start rambling again.
You decide to take one do the documents and take matters into your own hands.
“We, the workers, are asking for a 3 months long parental leave, for both parents” you say as you slid the first 20 papers towards the CEO. “We also ask for functioning heaters and a better working environment” you slid more papers “Most importantly we ask for-“
“Stop stop stop” the CEO ordered “Look, I can’t give you all the benefits, but if you alone need them, well, we can work it out. Though I remember, when asked, you told HR you were single, did you perhaps find anyone? I’ll remind you the contract prohibited relationships as-“
“Oh yes! We should also talk about that point in the contract! It’s strongly against one’s personal freedom and it is, with no doubt, wildly unjust as it hasn’t been applied to anyone but me, as far as I can understand from my coworkers” you exclaim “Still the benefits aren’t for me only, many people in the company need to take parental leave but can’t because of the risks of getting fired or not getting paid: Mariah from the finance department, Jules from Marketing, not to mention John from Manufacturing! They all need to take their parental leave but can’t because of the lack of benefits! You need to grant them the paid leave”
“I really don’t see how their personal affairs should be any of my concerns, on the other hand I feel like they might be putting pressure on you with all those problems they reported. Do you want me to fire them? That way you won’t have to think of them” offered the CEO.
“Are you… Kidding me? Because that has to be illegal, you cannot fire people just on a whim or with no notice” you counter.
“But, that’s the fun part, you see, because I can” they muse “We are not in one of those ‘Communist’ European countries where you have to state the reason for the firing and all those thin-“
“They are not communist countries, most of them are not even socialist, did you study politics? Or Geography? Or have you ever even seen the news? Then again if you fire someone for that I can assure you, your whole company will go on strike in less than a week” you state “Give us the benefits or we’ll certainly go on strike too”
The CEO holds their chin, looking at you, glaring at you.
“As I said I can give such benefits only to you alone, and only if you take my offer to become my secretary, our company doesn’t have the money-“
“We do have the money, I checked along with finance department the net worth and the profits from last year, you can afford to pay us these benefits” you declare glaring at them.
“Look sweetie, we just can’t give you the benefits, but-“
“Then we’ll all go on strike” you explained simply.
“You didn’t let me finish, please, sweetie, don’t interrupt me again” the CEO mumbles “Look, I might give one of the benefits, the environment one” they look at the papers regarding that one “if you decide to-“
“Only one won’t cut any deal, especially that one won’t” you exclaim, sliding the papers about the written agreement against AI towards them “This one and the paid parental leave might convince me and the others not to protest, if you sign them”
“Look, sweetheart, I can see you are putting a lot of effort in this” they answer, smiling at you “But no. At least not unless you concede to a couple of conditions”
“Well, first, you stop working with your co-workers, become my secretary and you swear that you’ll stop talking to them, or looking at them or I’ll fire each one you look at, secondly, you promise me this will be the last I’ll hear about all of this ‘Benefits’” they explain.
“No, we’ll go on strike instead” you declare, getting up from the chair you were sitting in.
“Look, hun, everyone always says they will go on strike but no one really does, but, say what, I’ll accept you when you come crawling back at me because I was right and all of these ideas have come falling down. And when you’ll come back I’ll even have a secretary position open for you, with the conditions we stated. After all, everyone makes mistakes, am I right?” they muse, smiling at you with that heinous corporate smile.
You nod and get out of the office, leaving the papers behind to head to all departments to communicate the strike you’ll have to do.
The CEO sits in their chair in the meanwhile, tasting their victory and imagining the way you’ll come back, crying for them, asking them to hold you because everyone in the offices betrayed you and you have no one but the CEO. And then you’ll become their secretary and you’ll slowly fall in love with them and who knows who knows.
But next week everyone, you included, actually goes on strike.
The CEO doesn’t panic at first, you won’t last more than a day or two.
Then you convince other employees of other companies to go on strike.
The strike suddenly becomes national and starts creating problems to politics.
You add the idea of actually making a revolution and creating a good new nation led by the proletarian class.
With guns, other weapons and your incredible collaboration you all are able to defeat the army itself and head for the Parliament.
You all are able to beat the whole government in a matter of weeks and create the, so called by Marx, temporary proletarian Dictatorship that slowly fades as, for the first time in history, Marxism actually works (as it is finally applied in a country where it can work cuz there are all the needed conditions).
The whole society is changed as everyone gets things based on how much they need, everyone helps each other and work alienation is no more, but everyone still works as they throughly understand that to affirm one’s conscience work, art and knowledge are the best instruments.
Also, you become the face of the Revolution and there are statues of you all over the place.
The whole concept of a Yandere has been beaten down as extreme need of possessing someone is very very very capitalistic and now everyone lives free.
Also, gay marriage is now allowed in every part of the world and there’s total gender equality everywhere.
