It is really irritating to work with irritating people
We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony with our projects, our family members, and our coworkers, and we couldn’t believe we were getting paid for this.
What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.
They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other’s air.
Some people would never forget certain people, a few people would remember everyone, and most of us would mostly be forgotten.
If in large part we were concerned only with making it through another day without getting laid off, there was a smaller part just hoping to leave for the night without contributing to someone’s lifetime of hurt.
We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves.
One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at any given moment.
For all our penny-wisdom,’” he said, “‘for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.
I think we’re losing sight of what our ultimate goal is here,” said Genevieve. But we feared that if she was washed out, people would look right past the flyer.