Finding work. Follow the girls to jobfair

You wake up in the soft nest of sheets groggy. You recall the couple below's nighttime antics keeping you awake till very late.

Getting up you take a towel and to the scavenged bathroom bag and exit your room to head to the shower.

In side the bathroom 7 or 8 rat girl's jostle for shower space sinks and toilets all mostly nude.

"Oh look new Sandy is up, hurry up girl hot waters almost gone and the good job postings are taken fast if we don't leave early" a skinny lady in the shower yells at you.

"Oh I think she was busy last night" Rebecca says with a smug look.

"No that was you, you inconsiderate cow," a short fat rat lady by the sinks yells. "Seeking your boyfriend in and sawing away all night you think I can't hear in the next room"

"Happy to put on a show" Rebecca curtsies

"Thought you told Kate you would do sex work" another girl in the shower out if sight yells.

You don't know how to integrate into the banter around you and resolve to just try and get your essentials done as fast as possible. The casual nudity of the women is distracting, so many breasts exposed to you casually was something you'd have fantasies about but right now your mostly intimidated.

Striping down you enter the shower jostling for space. Your big breasts take up more space than the other girls and you bump a lot.

"Damn new Sandy is really stacked, Sandy was big too but you've got a few sizes on her" one of the girls gives you a honk when you swing into her accidentally.

"Sorry. Hey don't do that!" You yelp.

"Oh geez sensitive too, you not grow up in a big house new girl, here let me scrub your back" the breast offender spins you round and starts scrubbing your back fur with a corse brush.

"Ahhh no just me and my dad,"

"Ohhh" the girls ooo together

"Rich spoilty, isnt used to saving space"

"She said she grew up around non kin dumby, they don't live 10 to a house like us"

"Like you know you dropped out before I did"

The girls start bickering again and you start tuning it out and start waiting for a free stall to pee.

Squeezing through the packed apartment isn't as hard as you'd thought it would be your all very flexible and noone (other than you takes offence to bumping against eachother or rubbing by to get where they're going. You navigate the tumult of rat women bodies to munch on a few of the tasteless nutrient bars Kate said are yours now and then head back to brush your teeth.

Getting dressed in your bunk you pick one of the few tops that don't show cleavage even if it leaves your shoulders exposed and the least tight jeans that you can find.

"Oh Sandy hurry up we're already way late to the skinny girl who's name you don't know yells at you as she leaves the door adjusting some earrings as so looks back.

You pocket your id card and scramble out after them. The balconies as busier at this time of the morning the swarms of rap people surging out forming a flow to the main building and the access stairs. The girls thankfully don't want to walk up fifty flights and you are grabbed and dragged into a packed elevator with them. Bodies pressing into you seems to be an inevitability here.

The little swarm of woman you're with gets bigger at the ground floor as friends and previous coworkers meet up with your roommates. One or two from your apartment split off to head to the busses to fulfil contracts they already hold. You filter into a nearby building with a convention space sized room. The girls usher you to a massive wall of postings.

"Ok its mostly temp cleaning positions on this side that's what I usually do" your chubby roommate indicates a broad area of wall with lists and lists of available positions. "Find a post and navigate to the table and they probably take you on for a day or a week, pay changes all the time so good luck getting a contract. Penny is probably already over their looking for entertainment and hospitality jobs she got kicked out of her bar last week. They usually hire you monthly or lock you down if they think you've got the assets they want. You've got the looks but your too meek and quite I don't think you'd like that best to find some honest labor"

"And those?" you point to another huge division of work offers.

"Oh manufacturing, construction you know. You can try but they probably won't take a woman especially if you don't have some brawn, postings will be gone before the listings close"

"How long do we have?"

"Oh it closes by 10 but all the jobs will be gone in an hour best to grab something and go" and the tubby rat pushes through to review the listings, you see she sees something good enough quickly and speeds off down the hall.

It takes you longer and worrying there won't be anything left to do you go to a table for a cleaning company to that handles commercial skyscrapers. Not sure how to convince them to give you a job you approach.

"Hell.." you start

"Going rate is 5 an hour only hiring for the day do you want it" an older rat lady says from the plastic folding table.

"Um ya I guess"

She glares at you "Yes or no, bus is gone in 6 minutes"

"Yyes" you stamer

She tosses a lanyard at you, "tap this an your card at the job site turn the lanyard in to the for woman at the end of the day or no pay, work shuttle is parked in 84A West parking lot move fast"

She points out an exit and manage to find the small shuttle bus with ten or so other women on it.

It deposits you back of house and you follow the rituals the other woman take taping your id and the lanyard making you as a company employee on a console. Your given some plasticity over clothes and a mask and ushered by the for woman around the building to washrooms and offices to give a deep clean. Your not very good, at it but the volume of other workers make up for your general incompetence, when you big things down taking to long your given the task of hauling filled garbage bags or bringing up new cleaning supplies. The workers in the building don't even look at you when you move by. It's a huge variety of beast kin but none of them consider the small rat women scurrying around to possibly be someone worthy of knowing.

You work all day no breaks for lunch and then return to the bus. You turn your lanyard in and are handed a small handful of bills amounting to forty five dollars. Not alot of progress on your debt no where near what you need per day to cover what they want from you at the end of the month.

You return to the apartment and most of the girls aren't there, off shopping for food or going to social spaces less cramped than the apartment. Kate is there getting ready to work nights at were ever she goes.

"Hey glad you got back before I left how was work"

"Hard, and I didn't make anything like what I need before the end of the month"

Kate grimaces a little "Ya get on that hunting first thing is your best bet for the most profitable stuff, and... You might need to sell your dignity a little to make due, it's not the end of the world if you don't make a payment but you don't really know who's going to be bidding on your missed payments when you do. Anyway here's an old phone card should work on the payphones not alot left on it but you should be able to talk to your dad a minute."

You thank her and she gives your arm a squeeze before heading out to work.

You find a working payphone near one of the corner stores squirreled away down an ally on your apartment level.

You were so panicked about the scholarship money being lost but your dad has that at the lowest levels of his priorities. You try to summarize what's happened as fast as you can before you run out of minutes on the card, the long distance call is expensive and if you had to pay for it yourself you'ed have wiped out what you'ed made today in 25 minutes. Dad tells you he'll try to talk to a lawyer for you and send you some money. You beg him not to pressure himself this is your fault. You'll try to keep in touch with him by email but it might take you a bit to get a computer that works or find a public one you can use. He starts insisting on sending something to help when the line dies as the card runs out of minutes.

That night your tired and soar enough that when Rachelle and her boyfriend start going at it you don't have difficulty sleeping.

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The next day you don't manage to get a job placement due to getting up too late and see what the rat unemployed do, largely mill around and socialize. You can see the secondary employment opportunities start recruiting. Rat toughs milling around looking for people to aid in shady dealings.

You stay clear and search around familiarizing yourself with the amenities near by. You up uncover the laundromat a few levels up as well as a tiny repair shop. You bring the nerdy looking young rat man Sandy's broken laptop and her pokes around quoting you 150 for the parts and labor. You think that's a good deal and settle on payment when you come to pick up.

You get up on time the next day and manage a dollar more on your earnings this time. And after the next you can cover the computer repair and get some ramen to replace the nutrient bars in the cupboard.

On the next you poke around at the hospitality and entertainment listings and when it turns out it's for a topless bar and the recruiter wants to get a good look you freeze up. Behind you in line a more enthusiastic rat girl flashes her tits an gets the spot. More respectable hospitality recruiters are frustrated by you hesitateny to be immediately enthusiastic and brush you off quickly. And that loses you another day.

Freaking out at the approaching deadline at the end of the month you resolve to just grab the easy custodial jobs and just work solid this month untill you make what you need. This works great untill after eleven days straight of working you get mildly sick. You think it's a cold or flu untill you learn it's your period.

You hadnt put any thought into managing your new femine cycles and are forced to get some pads eating into your funds further.

By the end of the month your short one thousand dollars.

You get the computer working, the Internet service is poor but a ethernet port in the wall of your bunk means you don't need to manage Wi-Fi in the solid concrete complex. You manage some emails back and fourth but it turns out financial transactions with Lupan citizens is heavily regulated and getting you the money will take alot of lobbying. He's had a lawyer draft some letters but they aren't hopeful as the bureaucracies in various clans have proven for that lawyer to be very difficult to make deals with.

You arrive at the admin desk to pay what you can at the thirty day mark.

"Ok that leaves you delinquent for 1034 dollars report to this location, you're debt will be bid on and you'll be contracted to the winner till you've covered your missed costs and till you're next installment is covered as well." Your handed a paper with a an address in the complex.