Of course I was. They make their cycles on people who can't pay them right away. They want me to use their cards to build a nice debt while I'm unemployed, so I can pay them six times the actual price of the items I buy when I'm employed again. I ignore them with no response. I was terminated from my firm no more than fourteen minutes ago.
News travels fast in a technocracy.
The next and final message came from Ariana, a woman in my department. Sure, I could. I still wasn't sure if I wanted to. I d been dying to get to know Ariana for months, but I didn't know if I could be good company tonight. I sent a quick message back saying that it wasn't a problem, and that I'd meet her at the Running Six restaurant at seven.