Severance

by Ling Ma

If you are an individual employed by a corporation or an institution, he said, then the odds are leveraged against you. The larger party always wins. It can’t see you, but it can crush you.

The next words he spoke carefully. But you’re young. You haven’t worked here for much longer than a year. About a year and three months, I said. You’re young, he repeated. You’re maybe under the impression that everyone gets to do what they want for a living.