Ain’t thou watching my film
Analysing me
Rusty junker squawker
Shaking up it say
If we should pull the plugs out of our history
And all of history yeah
Things that shouldn’t be
Things that couldn’t be no
Things that had to be
Don’t you see?
It’s going up up up
Let’s get the hell out of here
Going up, going down
Do you want to know what’s wrong with the world?
Everywhere people with no flowers in their hair
By the end of Gray Rock, Damron achieved success in his role and also disclosed his disability to the company. Although he must refrain from disclosing to others (and endure being the Office Creep) until he patches up things with Jane, the MP was now on notice that Damron is protected by the ADA, and thereby neutralized (he hoped). Having reached the midpoint of the story, Damron has accomplished is objectives. Time to knock it all down, right?
I did not truly untangle everything that happened from April 24 (Tania in HR’s first call) to June 15, 2018 (the day I informed The MP about the disability disclosure) until I wrote the manuscript. All of Going Up happened in late May as well, so seven chapters are devoted to the Midpoint turn in the story. Challenges (disclosing to Claire in Chapter 22), Boiling the Ocean, and Never Stop occurred after I disclosed to the company but before I informed the MP (recall how I was incorrectly certain Sandra in HR would blab).
Going Up sets the stage for the second half of the story, along with We Work in the following chapter. Boiling the Ocean was an empty cliche’ and catch phrase used by The MP and his minions to describe taking what should be a small project and turning it into a project so large it couldn’t be done, e.g., boiling the ocean. I had a scene of an exchange the analysts and I had about the saying and how it only revealed their lack of understanding of the possibilities of Big Data. “No Rudy, we want to boil the ocean….” Although the scene didn’t make the final cut, the title did.
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