text: You know that energy drinks greatly increase your heart rate and you don't want to crash and burn later in the day, so you ignore the can and drive onward. Hopefully you can time an afternoon nap in-between shifts to refuel.
  
  Your drive is fairly uneventful and you arrive at work to find one parking space right next to the '2014 Tuition Centre' as your working headquarters are so creatively known. You try to overhear a conversation between two of your smoking colleagues outside, but you are too woozy to make out more than a few insignificant words.
  
  You are greeted as you pace up the long flight of stairs with 'Hi, your first student is waiting for you at station 2.' from your boss Ray. Ray is always matter-of-fact with everyone. Some of the employees find his lack of cordialness a bit strange, but you don't mind it. To be honest it's a lot better than the stereotypical yelling, abusive boss you thought you'd be working for as you ploughed through papers at school.
  
  You wonder why a student would clash their tuition with standard school hours, short of being desperate to pass an exam. You don't recognise the girl you're meant to be coaching; she is probably one of the other tutors' regulars.
  
  After learning your student's name is Alice and that she has a free first period at school today (of course, why didn't you think of that?), you give her a previous school paper to prepare her for a math exam later in the day. You don't have to complete a lot of work as Alice breezes through the paper, however near the end of the session she encounters a hard nut to crack. When Alice looks to you for help, you casually remark that the question probably won't appear on her paper, but she pipes up with 'Actually my teacher informed our class that this sort of exercise would feature in the exam, so can you please demonstrate how to solve it?'
  
  You study the problem more closely and while you solved an almost identical one once before, your head isn't in the best place and you're having trouble remembering the method. Being fairly mathematically gifted, you normally figure out the method and solution as you go along, but you also identify that you aren't your normal self, and wonder if you should request help from your friend in the 'Data Office'. He's a programmer and he'd have no trouble cracking the nut, having said that he tends to be very fast and not explain his thought process clearly, and that's assuming he agrees to help you in the first place.
  
  > work on the Question Yourself
  You're confident you can figure out the answer and make some small talk with Alice for a minute while hoping the method springs into your mind, but after a minute and a half you admit you are stumped. 'It's a tough problem, let's ask our friend Google for the answer'. Sure, you could probably use the company's math program to find the answer faster, but it is meant to be only known to the employees, so you can't use it in front of a student. You find a useful webpage on Google and after reading it for a minute you understand the method and explain it to Alice, showing your working. She doesn't look impressed that you had to look it up though, and you're relieved that the session is over as soon as you finish the question. However she draws attention to you by twistedly stating 'It was fun watching a math tutor struggle!'.
  
  Ray hears this quip and goes to you, asking if everything is okay. You admit that you had to Google the answer to the toughest question on the paper you gave to her.
  
  'I appreciate your honesty, however you understand that we have to give the impression that our tutors can answer any high-school math questions, or it makes customers question the capability of our tutors. That said, everyone has at least one of these 'blank outs', so I'll let you off on this one. But if I catch you slipping up again today, I'll have no choice but to fire you. Understood?'
  
  You nod and thank Ray for forgiving your mishap. You have many more students to coach today, so you purchase a nut bar from the vending machine to carry you through the rest of the morning's work.
  
  You get through your next couple of internet students without any trouble as their math is considerably easier than Alice's, but you find a different kind of problem at the start of your final internet lesson before the lunch break. Your student is a young African boy without much knowledge of English, and he doesn't respond to your question about his math class.
  
  How can you teach someone that doesn't speak your own language? You could always grab a nearby textbook and get him to answer the questions, but part of you wonders if you should even bother.
  
  > end the Session
  You understand very well that you need effective communication to properly teach a student, and without a common language that just isn't going to happen. You wave goodbye on the video, he says 'Goodbye.' and you end the call.
  
  As you're walking toward a quiet room for you to nap in, Ray halts you. 'Don't you have a student now?'
  
  You express the communication problem you had with your student, which induces a rare display of emotion from Ray. 'Are you kidding me? His parents pay very good money for us to give him an opportunity! His school doesn't even teach math! What makes you think you should have the power to determine whether a kid gets a chance in life?'
  
  You should've understood that this was a special situation, but it's too late to return to the lesson now.
  
  'I told you there wouldn't be a second chance, and I'm a man of my word. You're fired.'
  
  You kick yourself for your absent-mindedness and every part of you urges to get as far away from the office as possible, but don't make it home to Kim's chastising, for you have a microsleep five minutes from your home and crash front-on into a moving car on the other side of the road, instantly killing yourself and the other driver.