To Serve the Master

Dick, Philip K. "To Serve the Master." Imagination Science Fiction Feb. 1956. Coll. Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities, q.v. under Anthologies.

A robot describes the protagonist as "a minor official in some hierarchy. Acting on orders from above. A mechanically operating integer in a larger system"; the man responds with a laugh and "I suppose so" (171). In the struggle between robots and humans, it may make little difference for little people who wins.