Sorry to Let You Go

A man in his fifties loses his job when a computer decides he's too old to work well. He tries to find new work, but every computer system tells him no. When he gets so desperate that he tries to kill himself to help his family with insurance money, another computer stops him. Through it all, his wife doesn't know he lost his job.

Walter Hayes, told he’s being let go in three months because a computer has taken the job he has held for 20 years, hasn’t the courage to tell his wife or friends about his predicament. Too old for another job in his field and with family bills piling up, he considers suicide, but he must do it before the three months pass in order for his family to collect his company-financed life insurance.

What happens when technology takes on the job of governance? A quirky story about a man in his 50's being expelled from his job because the computer finds him too aged to be productive. When he looks for other job options, all computers give him the same answer. When he is finally driven to suicide in order to be able to claim his insurance, yet another computer steps in to prevent him. And his wife has no idea that he is unemployed