"Good day Mrs !"
I don't know this man. Besides, I've never seen him.
"Who are you? I asked for the head of the legal department I think?!"
"I'm the head of the legal department, Madam."
"And you've been working here since when?"
"It's already been a year ma'am."
I'm surprised I've never seen it before.
"And how come I never saw you here? Don't you attend company meetings?"
"Yes Madam!"
His answers surprise me a lot.
"Very well! Where is your department's monthly report?"
"The report... Yes... Actually..."
"I asked you a simple question and you start to stutter. Don't waste my time, I have a lot to do."
"It's that... I couldn't do the report for this month..."
The young man seemed scared. He bows his head after saying that.
"Excuse me? You better give me a good reason to justify this."
"I promise to make this report as soon as possible. My daughter has been hospitalized for a week and I have had no respite from writing the report."
"You keep your personal life to yourself. I don't give a fuck because each of us here has personal problems and that does not prevent us from doing our job as it should."
"Excuse me Madam. I promise you that such a thing will never happen again."
"You're right, because I'm firing you!"
"What? I beg you ma'am! I only have this job."
"If you only had this job as you say, you were going to take it seriously and not make any mistakes."
"Excuse me Madam, give me a second chance..."
"My word is final. You now have plenty of time to take care of your daughter."
The young man leaves my office with tears in his eyes. I don't care. I'm a business woman and I can't be moved by feelings. If I let this mistake go, many more will happen and my business will eventually go bankrupt. And that is out of the question.
DAVID
All that was needed was to finish the tile. Now I am jobless. I go directly to the hospital where my daughter is hospitalized. Irène my partner is also there. She's babysitting our daughter. As soon as she sees me come in, she realizes something is wrong.
"Are you okay? What happened? Why are you coming home early from work?"
The sound of his voice is worried. I come to sit on a chair in the room. My face is totally ruined. I lower my head for a moment, then I say to him while raising it.
"I lost my job. I was fired."
"What? How can such a thing happen? What happened?"
Irene is even more affected by this news than I am concerned. She almost jumped out of her seat when she heard that. Luckily my little girl is asleep.
"My boss fired me from my job because I couldn't file my report on time."
"And why didn't you file it in time?"
"What question Irene?! You know I was worried about our daughter's health for more than a week already. I barely slept since then."
"I don't care if you sleep or not. But you should always keep in your job that your job comes first. How could you play with the only source of your income? We are poor enough already and like that wasn't enough, are you going to fuck up this job that allowed us to survive?!"
I think Irene exaggerates. It's not like we're starving.
"Don't worry. I still have a bit of savings that will allow us to live while waiting for me to find a new job..."
"Ah yes? A little economy huh? Do you think it will stay until when? Do I have to remind you that it is almost impossible to find a job these days?"
"Don't exaggerate either..."
"If I exaggerate and I'll even do more by leaving you..."
"No Irene, you can't do that! It's just a bad patch! I promise to find a solution quickly."
"Of course I can do it. Besides, I'm leaving now. Your whole life is just a bad patch and I can't live anymore by tightening my belt. Since you're fired, you will have plenty of time to watch over your daughter. As for me, you will see me no more."
"And our marriage then?"
"Forget this wedding. Anyway, you would never have had enough money to give me the wedding of my dreams even if you worked your whole life."
I think the sky has fallen on me. So many bad news all at once? I hope I'm swimming in the middle of a nightmare and if so, I need to wake up very quickly.
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