Minimum Expectations

Premise: Three college and minimum wage working adults, Jesse, Ellie, and Steve, try to find various jobs to pay for their living expenses and college debt, usually they try to keep their jobs but are occasionally confronted from everyday situations to surreal catastrophes. From working as camp counselors and protecting campers from forest psychopaths and supernatural entities to violent amusement park customers and malfunctioning animatronics, together they attempt to survive within these situations, maintain their job reps, and maintain their bonds of friendships due to common circumstances within their workplace.

Jesse: A dimwitted, immature, but well-meaning individual and the main protagonist. Few years since graduating high school, Jesse dropped out of college and lives at an apartment under his aunt’s management. Most of the time he tries to find a stable job to keep up the living expenses (rent, food, electricity, water, etc.), but time they don’t last long as he either quits, fired, or laid off due to surreal situations that end in unfavorable outcomes, but still holds his hopes high to keep looking for the right job for him. He can be quite sociable and sometimes loses himself towards his own interests and thoughts about preserving his job or catching a financial break, but he comes around to think about his friends’ considerations and wants what’s best for them as well as his own well-being.

Steve: A hyperactive individual who loves to live life on the edge, even during mundane routines. Steve depicts as a cool yet somewhat unhinged when it comes to living in every moment of his life, which people depict him as being reckless and inconsiderate to others well beings, making him an outcast to others around his age. Although he usually enjoys the lifestyle he lives now, he secretly wishes to spend it with family and friends who could share the similar interests like him, so he doesn’t feel alone. Jesse figures out some of Steve insecurities but still embrace his outgoing personality and even admits having him accompany him gives energy to his life, making Steve his best co-buddy and friend. Steve can be much more selfish than Jesses, especially when it comes to his extreme decision-making interests, but still reminded that although he can break a few bones and joints in his body, he does not want to break his bonds with the people close to him by his own actions.

Ellie: The calmer and more collective of the main co-working trio and usually the straight-man, or woman, of the three, putting up with the other two’s antics with life and work. Ellie does not hold much trust or interest with other people at first, usually in one of her more long-lasting jobs her clients were ungrateful and rude as much as her superior treats her even poorly, making her unsociable with her co-workers and other people. Eventually she would be in charge with teaching her new co-workers Jesse and Steve, who are willing to get to know her more and having her open herself up to them, especially when their nonsensical antics messes with the bad clients and causes her to crack up with life again. Jesse and Steve are the ones to convince her to be more open-minded with her future and the many paths she can take over the one that leads her nowhere in life, having the confidence to quit her job once the boys got fired or laid-off after a series of unfortunate and surreal events, believing that working with them could bring a new light for a more happier and fulfilling learning experience with society and becoming part of their best co-workers clique. She is the more serious and careful of the best co-buddies and friends of the group, wanting everything to be smooth and operative for their job careers, but in the end succumbs to a series of unfortunate events that comes with the jobs they sign up for (however she sometimes joins in with her friends’ nonsensical routines for fun as long no harm is done).