The Parking Garage
Cognitive grounding techniques
This is the moment you've been building toward. Calling your partner or parent with news you can barely say out loud — except now the stakes are real and there's no rehearsal. What you do next matters.
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Part of this story
The First Hour
→Security walked you out. You're sitting in your car. The shock hasn't worn off. Navigate the first sixty minutes after being fired.
Part of the quest
Just Got Fired
→The first hour of shock, the first call you have to make, the first morning after with nothing to do, and the first plan that might actually work. Navigate getting fired in real time.
What you'll learn from The Parking Garage
This scenario focuses on Cognitive grounding techniques — a critical skill inside the broader career domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The First Hour, a full interactive story inside the Just Got Fired quest.
Skills you'll build in Just Got Fired
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Security watched you pack. Now you're sitting in your car in the parking garage, engine off, staring at nothing. Your hands are still shaking. You have no idea what to do next — and it's only 10am.
What started with the first hour just got more complicated. Now you need to regulate your immediate emotional response to being fired — and the situation is shifting faster than your first approach can handle.
You've faced the hardest part. Now turn what you've learned into something sustainable — a way to regulate your immediate emotional response to being fired not just today, but every time this situation returns.
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