Dealing With Consequences

I can respond to Anna firing me in three ways.

First, I can do nothing and move on with my life, the way I would have if I didn't have the Action Trader app. To determine the feasibility of this option, I look down the list of Anna's future actions. She plans on erasing me from the grocery store's digital payment network so I won't be able to clock in if I show up for tomorrow's shift. I can accept that. What I can't accept is that Anna is planning on calling the cops and reporting me for sexual harassment. If I don't want to be a nationally registered sex offender, I can’t afford to not act.

My real options are between dealing with getting fired and dealing with the consequences of getting fired. If I want, I can use the Action Trader to get Anna to not fire me. Thing is, I don't like working for Anna.

Before getting the Action Trader, I worked because I needed money. After getting the app, I continued to work partly out of habit and partly because Anna was hot. She had nice tits, a thin waist, and the best legs and ass I've ever seen, and I wanted to maintain access to her. I made trades to get Anna to flirt with me and to let me feel her up, and I had intended to go further.

The argument for keeping my job is it gets me bi-monthly paychecks and keeps me near Anna. The question is: If I could get paid and make progress on getting Anna in my bed without having to go to work, would I still want to keep my job? The answer is an emphatic no.

Consequently, I make two trades aimed at dealing with the consequences of my mistake instead of trying to stop Anna from firing me.

I first trade: remove [David Mason] from the payroll with log [David Mason] has worked forty hours a week for the next year. Normally, I would scan in when I started work and scan out when I finished, ensuring the computer had a perfect record of my work hours. The computer would multiply the number of hours I worked by my hourly rate to calculate my paycheck, before automatically debiting the money from the store's checking account and crediting it to mine.

As the boss, Anna could override the automated system. This meant, if I ever forgot to clock in or out, I could always ask her to manually correct the number of hours I worked. My trade convinced Anna to use her override to falsify records of me working forty hours a week for the next year. After she's made the edit, Anna will believe I'm not on the payroll anymore, but in reality, the automated payment system will continue to send me checks.

With my monetary issues sorted for the foreseeable future, I pivot to dealing with Anna’s legal aspirations. I exchange: call the cops with call [David Mason].

On one end, the trade ensures Anna will call me, though not for a while. The Action Trade listed what targets planned to do in the order they planned to do them, and from what I was reading, Anna didn't intend to call the cops until after she closed the grocery for the day. Consequently, I shouldn't expect to hear from her until six o' clock at the earliest. It's about ten a.m. now, so I have eight hours at least.

On the other side of the trade lies potential problems. If Anna ever tries to call me, the trade will cause her to call the cops instead, and I don't want her talking to cops. The reason I issued the command anyway is because I don't think Anna is ever going to willingly call me. She hadn't even before she fired me. She’s not going to start now that she believes I molested her.

I was so confident in this judgement I was willing to make a series of follow-up trades based on it. What are the odds of Anna inviting me to her home so we can have some private one-on-one time? Zero. Consequently, there is no risk in trading contact lawyers with invite [David Mason] to my home. Because she's never going to invite me to her home, she never going to contact her lawyers. Every time she tries, she'll wind up inviting me to her house where I'd be able manipulate her away from prying eyes.

Similarly, there is no chance of us sexting, so I trade that with check whether the case against David Mason has made progress. Finally, I highly doubted professional and strict Anna had every sent anybody nudes, and even if she had, it would never be me. There's no risk involved with trading submit evidence for the case against [David Mason] with send [David Mason] nudes.

Why was I stressing over the other end of my trades? Because not thinking through my trades had gotten me fired. I was able to circumvent the consequences of my mistake with difficulty, but I might not get this lucky in the future. I had to be more careful, especially because reversing course hadn't been free. All my trades cost action points.

Today, I had gotten extremely lucky in that my mistake happened early in the day. I received fifty ABs everyday at midnight, and had an additional twenty-five I hadn't spent yesterday, for a total of seventy-five. It had cost me fifteen ABs to swap clean the counter with play with [Anna Brown's] breasts, so I had a remainder of sixty AB to deal with my mistake. Of that sixty, I had paid forty to finance my trades, which wasn't a problem because I had the ABs but I could imagine a scenario where I wouldn't.

I had swapped sightseeing with hanging out with [David Mason] for Samanath Kinley, because I intended to spend time with the beautiful tourist this evening, after I was finished working. I imagined an alternate reality where I hung out with Samantha in the morning and went to work in the evening. In that reality, I would have spent most of my ABs trying to fuck the red-head, so by the time I got to work, I'd be running on almost empty. If I then screwed up with Anna, I wouldn't be able to trade my way out of my mistakes.

I pictured a horror-stricken version of myself staring at his phone screen as call the cops slowly drifted to the top of Anna's to-do list. Without any ABs, there would be nothing he could do to stop her. What was an inconvenience for me would be a cataclysm for him.

I considered whether there's be a lesson there. Maybe I should have an emergency fund of action bucks, where I save five ABs a day to ensure I could worm my way out of trouble if I fucked up again. I dismissed the thought. Even if I was going to start an emergency fund, it wouldn't be today.

I pull up Samantha Kinley's profile. She's eating breakfast right now, but going sightseeing- due to my command, Samantha thinks hanging out with me is sightseeing- is high on her list. I'll be seeing Samantha today; which makes my mistake with Anna sting worse. If I hadn't made that mistake, I would have had sixty ABs to woo Samantha with. Instead, I only had twenty.

I remember it would have cost me a hundred AB to trade sightseeing with having sex with [David Mason]. What can I do with twenty ABs?