the walls are closing in

Last week J learned that he was to be laid off, not long after his five-year anniversary. A few days after that E found out that the company she and M work at is going to be laying off 20% of their workforce to offset AI spending, which by my estimates means that there's roughly a 36% chance one of them will be affected. E thinks her own odds are worse, since she's been struggling to keep up with pace. So J has been scrambling to get his last few medical and dental appointments in before his ...