JD
Our state budget is fuckded up. It was fucked up when they voted on it. Everyone is losing out. Everyone is losing money. Unemployment rates are up. Being low on the totem pole, I was let go.
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What?
JD
?? You heard me right.
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?Downsized? Let go?
JD
Damn Budget Cuts!
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Why? How? When?
JD
?? I said....BUDGET GUTS!
???????? How??That's a stupid question that I need not to answer.
???????? When?? Today???????
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I'm confused.
JD
?? I second that.
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What did you do?
JD
? I loved my job and I did it well - thoroughly and ethically
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Ethically?
JD
?? You know me.? I always tell the truth, even if the truth will hurt me.
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?Did it?
JD
BUDGET CUTS!
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But why?
JD
?? Because there's something inherently wrong with me.?
AFP
There's nothing inherently wrong with you.
JD
?? Yes there is.
AFP
No there's not. It is not your job to manage the state budget. You have no control over it.
JD
?? Yes I do! If I would have been MORE aggressive with my bosses, they could have been more involved, they could have influenced their colleagues, they could have voted differently.
If you're right and there's nothing "inherently" wrong with me then tell me?why this had to happen again, especially right?now, when I'm still fucked up over round one with the Goons and?Dear Lawyer.
AFP
?You're not?'fucked up' and there's nothing inherently wrong with you.???? You did your very best. You did your job. You informed them well. You are not a Senator, you are not a State Rep, and you are not an elected official. You advise them, and you advised them well. They are arrogant, lazy assholes. You know what goes behind closed doors. You told me. It's scary. I respect you for all you have done to help them represent their constituents.
JD
??? Sigh.
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? Now what?
JD
??? I guess look for a job, collect unemployment, and look for a job.
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? What kind of job? What are you going to do?
JD
??? What I'm going to do is one thing, but what I want to do is another....
AFP
? Ok.? What do you want to do?
JD
???? I wanna make lots of money firing people.
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? What?
JD
??? I want to fire people.
AFP
? I gotta hear this.?Tell me more.
JD
?? Tell you what?
AFP
? Damn! Some things will never change.
JD
??? What does that supposed to mean?
AFP
? It means you still answer questions like a Litigant.
JD
??? So?? What's wrong with that?
AFP
? Nothing.
JD
??? Good.
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? You're losing me.
JD
??? Good.
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? Is that all you can say?
JD
?? What exactly do you want me to say?
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I want you to tell me why you want to fire people.
JD
? I want to fire people because people who are in the position to fire people,? don't know how to do it, and when they do, they fuck up, and when they fuck up, that's when?lawsuits happen.
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? I never thought?about it in that context before, and the more I think about it, you're absolutely right.??
JD
??? I am.
AFP
? There's more to this isn't there?
JD
??? Yup.
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? What?
JD
???? Let's talk about it a later. I'm kind of upset, and I'm kind of freaking out??about today.
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Fair enough.?
JD
?? ?-----
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? Justice?
JD
??? What?
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? You'll be okay.? This won't be anything like the last round.
JD
?? ?Maybe. I don't know.
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? I can tell something happened and you're not telling me.
JD
????I told you.? I BUDGET CUTS! What more is there to tell?
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? Something happened
JD
??? I TOLD YOU BUDGET CUTS!
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? Yeah.
JD
?? ?------??
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? Whatever it is, I'm sure it's hot.
JD
??? Too hot.