He got the news on a Tuesday. Late November. Quietly, he’d been expecting something. The usual year-end slowdown. But not this.
Just like that. Laid off. Not redundant. No payout. Just told he was surplus to requirements and dismissed.
Inside his head, he was already doing the maths: mortgage; gas bill; the kids’ presents. The numbers didn’t add up. They never do when you’ve got no wages coming in and six weeks till anyone even thinks about hiring again.
He sat there for a while in the van, watching his breath cloud up the windscreen.
Christmas had just been cancelled.
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