My First Redundancy

three years ago…

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Shock fused my system when the news first broke by my line manager. She knew it’s a hard news to share and decided to pull me to a quiet corner downstairs the office. That’s one of the afternoons back in 2017. She seems angry about the ‘rumour’ but I was totally lost, and numbed.

I built a pretty solid career over my fifteen years of working in Kuala Lumpur, the last nine…