つかえる英会話Daily / Travel

F: How’s Rick doing? I haven’t seen him for ages.

J: Don’t talk to me about Rick! He’s totally been getting on
my nerves recently!

F: Has his job situation improved at all? Last time I spoke
with him, things were pretty tense at the office.

J: You’ll never believe it but he handed in his resignation
last week. As of the end of this month, he’s unemployed.
I can’t believe he’d do that at a time like this! I mean,
we’ve only just finished building our house and we’ve just
started making thirty years of mortgage payments. How does
he think we’re going to make ends meet?!

F: Don’t be too hard on the guy, Jill. I mean, things were
pretty bad where he was working, right? He was driving two
hours each way to get to the office every day, then once he
got there, he had to put up with insults from his boss and
office politics all day long. I can understand why he
wanted to chuck it in.

J: I know. He does seem relieved to finally get away from it
all. But that doesn’t help our financial situation any.
What if he can’t find another job?

F: Don’t worry about it Jill. Rick will land on his feet in
no time, you’ll see. These things have a way of working
themselves out.