A Beautiful Dream Shattered, Falling Back to Reality

Yesterday's 'benevolent policies' were an illusion, today's endless calls are the daily grind of a corporate slave! Just yesterday, I experienced the small joy of 'leaving work early and walking home.' Today, fate decided to tell me: Dude, stop dreaming! I'm swamped with work and only now preparing to leave. My phone screen keeps lighting up— Seeing 'Mother Dearest' and 'Wife Dearest' taking turns with a barrage of calls, I'm sweating bullets. The terrifying image of a double interrogation at my doorstep is already playing in my head... Thinking the situation is critical and I need to get home ASAP to put out fires, I decide to rely on the bus! But then I check the bus app… the next bus isn't until past 9:10 PM?! Standing at the bus stop, phone vibrating non-stop, I calculate the time... 'By the time the bus gets here, I could have already walked home ahhhhh!' (Meltdown and sprint) Today's realization: The consecutive calls from the 'Twin Empresses' are a death sentence, and the bus arrival time is a tearjerker. Social death index: 75% (Staring blankly at my phone with its endless calls at the bus stop, then just silently breaking into a sprint) Soul-searching question: When you see 'family's consecutive calls' plus 'bus is still half an hour away' after work, do you wait it out or activate 'berserk sprint mode' and walk home? 📱😱🚌🏃♂️