Avery had been working for years in the LA tech market. Never able to break out on her own due to a lack of general support or interest in her concepts.
Her ideas mostly consisting of how to use AR technology to interface with the human brain. The issue with this was that the mega-corporation of Revant studios had overtaken the market with tech that she couldn't match up to. Not for lack of trying mind you, it's just that every time that she would attempt to release a concept to sell just a day earlier Revant would release almost the exact same thing with a patent.
That was until mid-august after spending another hundred hours hunched over her desk coding for a company she didn't care about dealing in something she cared even less about. Her auburn hair in a bun but becoming increasingly disheveled because of her frustration with the idiocy of the people she was working for.
Breaking her out of that monotony was a ping to her private work email for job requests. Looking for anything to cure this crippling boredom Avery spun around in her chair to face her second monitor and pull up the new email labeled. 'Ravent wants YOU!'
"Yeah, and I want you to go fuck yourself." She rolled her eyes opening up the email to see if it was an offer worth even considering. 'Hello, Avery Williams we have seen your impressive portfolio of AR-based technology! While very similar to our own we would love to have you come in and work with us so we can improve our products and productivity in the future!' Along with the message was a link to their private employee onboarding program.
Avery leaned back in her chair, her head flopping back as she looked over to the hours of menial coding she had been doing for a security firm in the area. "Well... I do need a job for once I'm done with that." She groaned before pulling herself up and clicking on the link. "Alright let's see what it's like on the inside for once. Maybe if I work with them they won't constantly fuck me anymore."
Over the next few hours between coding sessions, Avery would continue putting her info and portfolio into the application. "Always the most fun part of a new job..." She leaned in looking closely at the application realizing that it was a full-time position not a freelance contract. "Fucking finally... A job that won't dump me after two months..."
The rest of the night Avery did nothing but code trying to finish out the end of her contract before the weekend hit. It in the end was slightly sloppy but she knew that the idiots running the company would never be able to tell the difference as she sent in the final project file at 7 am in the morning. "Fuck... I'm spent."
Avery kicked her wall, her chair allowing her to roll across her tiny apartment to the bed before flopping down onto the mess of dirty clothes before wiggling her way into the covers before passing out until midday.
The light of the midday sun was beating down on Avery's eyes, waking her up, and causing her to look over to her pc and see a ton of notifications on her private email. "Why... WHYYYYY!" She groaned flopping down off the bed and stumbling over to her desk sitting down to read the new set of emails. "It's too fucking early for this..." She opened up the first message labeled 'welcome to Revant!' It had a detailed list of everything Avery needed for her interview. It was a fairly lax list of just some nice clothes, her laptop, and portfolio to have a sit down with the owner and discuss her employment. The appointment had been set up for this evening after official operating hours ended.
"Fine... I guess I'll give this a shot." She rolled her eyes standing up and unfurling her bun as she went to take a shower and get ready. After an hour and a half of getting herself dried off and dressed Avery picked her satchel up heading out and hopping in an uber.
After a relatively short and quiet ride to the Revant Studios, Avery hopped out looking up at the glossy white building before rolling her eyes. "Fucking pretentious pricks." Several people were headed out for the day all wearing the AR glasses that are developed at the company.
Once inside the halls were all lined with clearly very expensive 'art' Avery fighting the impulse to flip off each of them on her way through the nigh empty halls. "This is stupid why did I even come here..." She kicked her feet slightly looking down and trying to act as casual as possible in a situation where she felt so out of place.
That is until she slammed face-first into a glass door falling on her ass and sliding back slightly. "Fucking bitch..." She looked up to see a smiling woman in a red dress. "Oh, I hope you aren't talking about me, dear." She grinned down at Avery offering the girl her hand. "I'm Raven Revant. It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Miss. Williams!"
Avery took Sera's hand standing back up now feeling both flustered from her previous display along with her lacking dress in comparison to Sera's. "It's a pleasure to meet you, two Miss. Revant." Once both women were standing Raven walked Avery into her office sitting down at the desk.
"So Miss. Williams we have found that your potential in the field of AR tech is incredibly high. You just seem to, no offense... lack at dealing with people. That's why we invited you to interview to work with us. I'm absolutely positive that with our help you can reach your full potential." Avery frowned, pulling her laptop out of her bag and placing it on the desk.
"I've just been... tired with how I've been treated by everyone I talk to over the years. Everyone claims all my ideas are inferior ideas for your products even if they come out at nearly the same time." She scrolled through her presentation showing off all the slightly different not inferior but more so alternative designs for the AR devices.
"That's exactly why we wanted to get you in with us! You clearly have a decent amount of skill in the field and we think your skills could be much better utilized with us rather than against us." Raven smiled sweetly before starting to look closer at Avery's designs and code for AR tech. "Why don't I take you to some of our labs so I can show you the benefits of working with us."
"Sure it would be nice to see the room where all the work happens." Avery smiled warily trying to put on a 'happy' face for her interview. "Excellent you can leave your bag and laptop here. I'll be locking up the office while we are out so they will be safe." Raven stood walking back out of the room with Avery closing the door behind them and using her key to lock it up.