Date Monday 27 March Time 3.10pm
My thoughts and reflections:
The culling has started at work. It’s like The Hunger Games .
Everyone is furtive and on edge and the rumour mill is rife.
And now that Matthew Lloyd is no longer distracting everyone with his beauty, people are seeing this for what it is: sudden death.
Matthew was never going to be able to save them all.
And we’re scared. There are a lot of dark circles that no amount of Touch éclat will fix, Yaz has got a break-out on her chin and I saw her eat a bag of Walkers, and Chloe has got a stress-stye.
It’s far-reaching – the fear: it’s even got to Scotland.
Charlotte posted a clip of herself, all shadowed, saying how as much as she loved social media, sometimes she felt a lot of pressure to impress others with her life.
Right now she was dealing with a lot of uncertainty.
She needed to focus on making sure she felt good enough, for herself, so she was taking a little break.
I initially assumed it was just a stunt to get more traffic but she genuinely hasn’t posted anything since then.
Every single time Outlook pings with an email, Cara visibly flinches and she’s not the only one.
We’re all waiting for the invitation no one wants: the meeting with HR.
So far, I’ve only directly witnessed one recipient of the firing process; Lazy Veronica who works – well, worked – in Production but often hot-desks up on our floor.
She sat for an hour with her head in her hands and then stood up and walked out, leaving her coat and bag.
Amelia from HR came and fetched them mid-afternoon and said Lazy Veronica was going home with a headache.
She’s not been back in. Yaz, who’s friends with Amelia said that HR told Veronica she doesn’t need to come in to the office before her proper meeting tomorrow.
‘Oh my god,’ I said. ‘It’s brutal, the way they string it out. ’
Yaz says they have to. Apparently you get warned you’re going to get fired and then in forty-eight hours you actually get fired. Sorry, made redundant . Guy’s been in a foul mood and yet had the audacity to shout at poor Iris for being depressing.
My intention is:
To start up some kind of GoFundMe for Lazy Veronica.
To DM Charlotte just to say hi.