Songs on the Eve of Dismissal is a song cycle about job loss, written by Chris Abelen (music) and Bastiaan Geleijnse (lyrics) back when unemployment was so low that almost no one was bracing for it — a hard concept to sell at the time. Now, with AI reshaping entire fields of work, that eve-of-dismissal feeling suddenly reads less like a curiosity and more like a warning. Nine songs from Cubicle Life and Time to Disappear carry the story, with instrumentals from A Day at the Office woven in as a kind of entr’acte, like in a classic opera.