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Corporate Stories - E1 :: Helplessness - The day she breaks down

Achala was restless, confused; thinking when all did go wrong. She could not believe the conversation that she had today. It was going over and over, still did not make sense. She has worked so hard, she always has. "Is this my fault?" rings in her head. "Am I not good enough? Just an average software professional who can never make it to the top. But I tried everything.", she screamed in her head.  Girish is home early today than his usual time. "What's wrong?" He senses her mood as he walks in. Seeing him gave her the courage to be weak and she broke down into tears.  "I'm going to get fired. I worked so hard." She kept crying and nothing else would come out. He holds her in his arm, "Tell me what has happened?"  "I don't know. They might fire me". "For what?" "Because it is not working out. And all the blame is on me. It had never worked in the first place." And her head is spinning thinking