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| The Spy Chapter 4 – Part II Simone was sitting in the meeting table. She had no idea why she had been called there, with all people who worked with her, but… he did not want to think about it. Even if she wanted, she could not: her mind was distant, was in the war. It was with Cesar. He sent her only some news. It was fair: it would probably be hard to find something to write when you are fighting. But when she received letters, they came full of suffering. The few things he wrote in them about what he was seeing, was doing, was feeling made Simone feel despair of knowing he was there and she could do nothing to help him. And the worst: even though he was suffering all those things, he still was worried with her. He asked her how she was, and how her relationship with his mother was. She had not told him that she had sent her outside his house. He would discovery it when he was back. At that moment, all news she sent him would be good ones. Even when they did not exist. Even when they are false. “Good afternoon, everybody.” Her boss said, obliging Simone to turn her thoughts back from Cesar to the reality that was in front of her. All people who were there – many of them women, as men were called to the war – answered a weak good afternoon. The boss continued: “We are here today to discuss a very complicated situation in our enterprise. I’ll be direct, even though it is not easy to say what I have: with the war, our enterprise is passing through serious financial problems. Our country is suffering this crisis, and it is affecting us. We are trying to solve it in the best way we can and without firing any of you out, as many of us were called to fight, but… the situation is becoming worst each moment. We will, soon, fire out some of you. Unfortunately.” Everybody started to comment those words. Someone asked: “When will you start resignations?” “Soon. We’ll try to avoid it as much as we can. And we’ll try to do it in the fairest way, even though… there is no fair way to fire someone out.” Simone took a deep breath. With her, Elisa started to cry. She took her colleague’s hand: “Be calm. You don’t have to be despair now, Elisa.” “We’ll lose our jobs, Simone. How can I be calm?” “There are worst things that could happen with us. And... we still did not lose our job. So we should not lose our faith.” “I’d like to have your optimism...” Simone smiled, but answered nothing. She also wanted to have that optimism, but… about that, it would be better to keep the silence that moment. (09112013) | ||||||
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