Speculative fiction

Here is how the story would go.

A young woman with some small magical powers completes her training and goes out into the world to struggle with all of the day to day aspects of survival. She takes a job that appears to be consistent with her training and skills. She does her job well, but is inevitably cut from the work force for mysterious reasons. She continues on, with new jobs in new places, but all the while suspecting that she is missing something. Are they really hiring her for the training and skills that she brings? Or is there something more that she is missing? What is really going on here? Slowly, she makes her way through the layers of obfuscation, grasping at any clues that come her way until she finally understands. Although her skills are what ostensibly got her in the door, that can no longer be the primary focus for her or any of her colleagues. Everyone she knows is really only employed to further the care and feeding of an incorporated Corporate Entity, sitting in corporate headquarters like a queen bee stuck in its hive.

OK, I have no idea what would happen after that. It could become a safari/zoo keeper kind of story on how to take care of something that could happily eat you alive if you don't cage it properly. It could be an ultimate showdown/David and Goliath kind of story with the individual facing up to the big Entity - but then I would have to have a winner and I don't think that will work. Or it could be a true coming of age story - the kind of coming of age that doesn't happen until sometime in your 30s and 40s.

But, you have to admit, it does make the entire corporate experience a bit more amusing in a bizarre way. The analogy is already fairly fleshed out in our language - worker bees, drones, hive mentality, etc. This would only take it to that slightly surreal and somewhat silly place. Since most corporate entities are notably lacking in humor and silliness, it could be a welcome addition to those of us who spend too much time under bad lighting and between cube walls.