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The crossroad
🕑 Added 2022-11-17 19:18:18 +0000 UTCMinh looked at the options. It was like the daily selects, but clouded in mystery. Firstly, the keywords never mentioned which person they used as a template. The second unknown was the options themselves. She recognized BM because it'd appeared in previous lists. but the rest were all new.
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+2 BM
+3 OS
+3 Secretary knowledge
+3 Secretary skill
+3 Movement
What the hell was OS? Operative system? Was she a robot? Or was it perhaps her ability to use the computer?
The unknowns were far from the biggest issue here though. With the numbers it was indicative of how many selections they were the equivalent of, there was 13 changes combined. Which was over three days with the app. It was a big decision for sure, fortunately they all seemed harmless. Except maybe the BM and OS ones, they could mean anything.
Either she took this trade, or she could find herself out of a job within the end of the week. It's not like losing her secretary job meant a lot to her, but the sad reality was that her education was gone, and her experience and skills were useless if she couldn't get a job which was similar to what she used to have.
Getting a job like the one she had would be impossible without a degree in the first place. She could try and kickstart her life again, get an education, but at that age she might as well retire. Her husband seemed to be the main provider anyway.
Looking at the options a second and a third time, Minh knew to separate skill and knowledge. One thing was to know the correct way to do something, the other was to apply that knowledge into actions. She'd often joke that the ones who had the knowledge but lacked the skill became teachers and professors.
Movement could mean a few things, but she figured it'd result in her movements improving for the sake of her job. Maybe she'd get a compulsion to walk faster, so she could be more efficient. Maybe she'd even become more nimble and light on her feet, making maneuvering around the archives and office cubicles a breeze.
The more she thought about it, the less bad it appeared to be. So with knowledge, skill and movement accounted for it boiled down to how bad she expected the other five points to be. +2 for BM and +3 for OS? They were probably abbreviated for a reason. Maybe the app was messing with her, maybe they were just long words.
It was as though she'd been backed into a corner. On one hand, the choice was completely optional, but then again, it wasn't. Sure you can claim it's a choice, but was it really? If not taking the deal could mean ending up unemployed for the rest of her life, was that really something she could live with?
Minh wasn't one to sit by idly and do nothing. Leeching off of her husband was the exact opposite of how she wanted to live.
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A bit on the shorter end, I wanted to see if there were any strong opinions regarding Minh's upcoming choice. Do speak your mind, should she make the deal?
