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The Professionally Confused Walrus
Random inspiration: professionally confused walrus
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The walrus had been promoted to Senior Analyst of Marine Mammal Synergies last Tuesday, though no one could recall applying for the position or interviewing it. It arrived at 8:03 a.m., placed its flippers on the keyboard, and began typing with its snout. By noon, it had filed seventeen reports on the optimal placement of kelp in break rooms, each one signed with a smudged flipper print. When asked if it understood the quarterly projections, it blinked slowly, tapped the clipboard against its chin, and whispered, 'I think I’m supposed to be confused.' No one corrected it. The confusion, it seemed, was the job description.
The brief
A walrus stands upright on a cracked linoleum floor in a dimly lit office, wearing a slightly crooked tie and holding a clipboard upside down, its tusks resting on the edge of a metal desk littered with sticky notes that read 'Why?' in various fonts, under the harsh glow of a single fluorescent bulb casting a sickly green wash over the scene.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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