Sorry for Your Loss, See You at Nine
They denied my bereavement leave, so I brought my father to work
Nora Ye has given eight years to the same company, and she has never once asked it for anything. Then her father dies at two in the morning, and the Gen-Z supervisor installed above her denies her three days of bereavement leave because the request was not filed twenty-four hours in advance. He calls the mourning rites feudal superstition, and warns her that staying home will be logged as an unexcused absence. Grief does not negotiate with a policy document. So Nora does exactly what she was told: she clocks in at nine, in her mourning whites, with her father's portrait in her arms.
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- Sorry for Your Loss, See You at Nine runs 3 chapters. The opening chapter is about 906 words, which is a single sitting for most readers.
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- It is a family drama story tagged workplace, grief, office-politics. Nora Ye has given eight years to the same company, and she has never once asked it for anything.
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