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Wallace Whipple is the CEO of Whipple Enterprises and he employs hundreds of thousands of people in his plants.\u00a0 But he is obsessed with efficiency and he explains to his plant manager Walter Hanley that he intends to automate away all the workers in his plants.<\/p>\n

Whipple waxes poetic about the joys of efficiency but Hanley chides him on his lack of feelings toward all the loyal employees that have worked faithfully for him for decades.\u00a0 Whipple scoffs at Hanley and mentions the generous severance package and retirement benefits he will provide to all the employees he\u2019s about to fire.<\/p>\n

A mechanic named Dickerson becomes deranged when he hears about the computer that is replacing hundreds of men.\u00a0 He comes back to the plant drunk and attacks the computer with a tire iron.\u00a0 When the night watchman fails to act quickly Whipple grabs his gun and shoots Dickerson himself.<\/p>\n

In the next scene we see Hanley returning from the hospital where Dickerson is expected to live.\u00a0 When he castigates Whipple for shooting the man, Whipple tells him that he has purchased a machine that can do Hanley\u2019s job.\u00a0 And he adds that Hanley is fired.\u00a0 Hanley\u2019s answer is that he intended to quit that day anyway and in lieu of severance or retirement benefits he punches Whipple in the face as payment.<\/p>\n

In the next scene Whipple is at the local bar and looks slightly disheveled with a one-day beard.\u00a0 He sees Hanley at the bar and asks him how he\u2019s getting along in retirement.\u00a0 Hanley says it\u2019s tolerable.\u00a0 Whipple starts to explain that the Board of Directors of Whipple\u2019s thought that Whipple had become too obsessed by his automation project so they retired him.\u00a0 Now he whines to Hanley that it\u2019s unfair that machines displace men and thereby diminish them.<\/p>\n

In the final scene we see a robot in Whipple\u2019s office talking on the telephone and doing all the things Whipple used to do, even twirling the same keychain that Whipple used to twirl.\u00a0 Interestingly, the robot is Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet.<\/p>\n

This is a silly episode but Serling couldn\u2019t decide if it was serious or for laughs.\u00a0 It comes off as odd and slightly flat.\u00a0 I\u2019m giving this a C.<\/p>\n

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