I also had the impression that something was going to happen to Neil, I imagined it would be something like he was going to get hurt at work, or he was going to "kill himself" from working so hard.
When Neil took the furniture to the MC he had a slip of the tongue and mentioned that he was no longer a supervisor (I don't have saves for that part to show here), so he may have been demoted, he needs money to fund his life and of his son, and for that he will have to get more jobs or something like that, and this will affect his health, or he could even get injured at work, and with the hospital bills the situation will only get worse... Anyway, yeah, something is going to happen to Neil.
And based on some of the previews of the next EP we've seen, the MC has stopped taking care of himself, he's unshaven, in many of the previews he's "sad" with someone comforting him, and let's face it, he's immature, he needs to grow up, and a drama like something happening to his father, his only family, can force him to mature.