The subject line read: Your Employment Status
It was clean language. Ken read it twice.
Valued contribution. Operational realignment. Non-essential to continued service delivery.
He’d read service delivery on their billboard outside every morning for the last three years.
Please ensure company equipment is returned upon your departure. This communication also forwarded to your personal device.
He closed his tablet. Sat for a moment. Picked up his satchel.
None of his colleagues looked up from their screens.
Outside, a delivery drone flew overhead.
The neon company logo shone in the rain. Ken stood under it and didn’t check his phone.
A story from the Static Drift universe.
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