So...next chapter's late...

Mostly because I've been working and re-working it in my head and on paper, trying to make it seem like less of a waste. Unfortunately, the fourth chapter is largely more plodding that probably should have been in the last chapter, but I can't skip it because it helps set up the fifth chapter, which is where things really begin to go into Crazy Land, which is really more of a barony. Plus, you know, there's work and all. Open Enrollment is here, people are calling to complain about everything, the media and politicians are openly wishing your career dead, and your workplace's human resources department lies to you over and over, instills false hope, and then shows up a week later to dash those expectations, all while claiming that they overpayed you by hundreds of dollars every other month and demanding the money back to cover their asses, and then not sending your paycheck with everyone else's and refusing to let you sign up for direct deposit because they keep finding new "overpayments" to levy against you. Not to mention the crushing loneliness as you watch all the happy families around you prepare for the holidays and realize you're a nobody with no family for hundreds of miles trapped in a job you hate, a hair's breadth from financial collapse, and with no hope for the future because you have no skills that are actually usable.

In other words, I'm still working on the chapter. I may delay it a bit longer so I can get the forth and fifth chapters out at the same time, if only to make myself feel a bit better. Now if you'll excuse me, I must go stare at the darkness and wonder how my life got to this point.

Comments

[VanillaWaffle]

Take your time, bro. Quality over Quantity... or... something like that.

[Blue_Paladin42]

Your HR department sounds....depressingly like every other HR department.

Except for demanding their money back. I have never heard of a situation where a business is allowed to get away with that. Even in heavily conservative, business is number one states, if a company gives you their money, they have to live with it.

[KMCA]

Mostly because I've been working and re-working it in my head and on paper, trying to make it seem like less of a waste. Unfortunately, the fourth chapter is largely more plodding that probably should have been in the last chapter, but I can't skip it because it helps set up the fifth chapter, which is where things really begin to go into Crazy Land, which is really more of a barony. Plus, you know, there's work and all. Open Enrollment is here, people are calling to complain about everything, the media and politicians are openly wishing your career dead, and your workplace's human resources department lies to you over and over, instills false hope, and then shows up a week later to dash those expectations, all while claiming that they overpayed you by hundreds of dollars every other month and demanding the money back to cover their asses, and then not sending your paycheck with everyone else's and refusing to let you sign up for direct deposit because they keep finding new "overpayments" to levy against you. Not to mention the crushing loneliness as you watch all the happy families around you prepare for the holidays and realize you're a nobody with no family for hundreds of miles trapped in a job you hate, a hair's breadth from financial collapse, and with no hope for the future because you have no skills that are actually usable.

For you these are the worst days of your life... But for me it was Tuesday.

All Bison aside I feel for you, I've been in rough spots similar to that before.