"The entrance to my cubicle is three feet away. Please respect my partition."
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businessman, businessmen, exec, execs, executive, executives, career, careers, big business, corporate, corporation, corporations, day job, offices, office job, office drone, office drones, cubicles, cubicle, offices, office building, packed, busy, crowd, crowded, office ecology, office politics, social, social politics, modern life, modern world, your business, none of your business, working life, working world, partition, partitions, fence, fencesWhich Cup? 'Me' or 'Real Me'?
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morning, mornings, monring coffee, coffee, coffees, coffee cup, cup, cups, mug, mugs, labelled, label, novelty, novelties, novelty cup, novelty cups, novelty mug, novelty mugs, tired, tiring, monday, mondays, mood, moods, drink, coffee pot, real, reality, realistic, business face, working world, working life, modern world, modern life, anxiety, depressed, depression, hiding, real self"I don't like to pull rank, but I'm the one with two papers."
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pull rank, pulling rank, paper, papers, paperwork, excuse, excuses, businessman, businessmen, exec, execs, executive, executives, career, careers, big business, corporate, corporation, corporations, day job, offices, office job, office drone, office drones, cubicles, cubicle, offices, office building, office ecology, office politics, modern life, modern world, working life, working world, desk job, desk jockey, responsibility, management, manager, managers"Would you like to hear about our retirement plan?"
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businessman, businessmen, exec, execs, executive, executives, career, careers, big business, corporate, corporation, corporations, day job, offices, office job, modern life, modern world, working life, working world, desk job, desk jockey, interview, interviews, interview skills, employment, employ, employed, unemployed, salary, pay cut, cut, cuts, budget cut, budget cuts, undervalued, undersold, undersell, financial crash, negotiate, negotiation, negotiating, contract, contract dispute, contracts, benefit, benefits, cryo, cryofreeze, retirement, retirement plan, retirement plans, human resourcesCasual Fridays
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slack, slacks, casual, business casual, street, streets, urban, urban life, modern, modern world, modern life, safe for work, clothes, clothing, dressed, dressing, work, working week, working world, professional, professionals, street walker, street walkers, friday, fridays, morale, morale booster, morale boostComing Soon to an Office Near You: Invaders From the Planet of the Recent College Graduates
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graduates, younger generation, generation gap, youth, young, younger, hiring, hire, new hire, new hires, graduate, college grad, grad, grads, college grads, unemployment, unemployed, laid off, lay off, downsizing, cut, cuts, cutting costs, cutting cost, world of work, working world, millennial, millennial, baby boomer, baby boomers, age, ageing"Why don't you come out and join us Tuesday night. We're a group committed to peacefully and nonviolently watching television."
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tv, television, after work, after hours, peace, peaceful, peacefully, working world, working life, persuade, persuasive, persuasion, persuading, word play, word-play, play on words, group, commit, committed, activism, activist, reversal, couch potato, exhausted, water cooler, cooler, businessmen, businessman, office life, office drone, office drones, offices, modern life, modern world, importance, inflate, inflated"Tell me about your last accounting job."
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interview, interviews, interviewing, employed, employee, employees, employer, working world, world of work, modern life, metaphor, metaphors, metaphorical, cookie from the cookie jar, cookie, cookies, cookie jar, cookie jars, account, accounts, accounting, accountant, accountants, fraud, frauds, fraudulent, caught, caught red-handed, caught redhanded, red-handed, bad reference, reference, references, fired, fire, fires, firing, laid off, lay-off, lay off, lay-offs, lay offs"By God, this year on my vacation I'm going to read a book!"
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bookworm, book worm, bookworms, book worm, book, books, novel, novels, library, librarians, librarian, book lover, book lovers, literature, literary, lit, lit major, read, reading, avid reader, readers, reader, novel, novels, novelist, novelists, shopping, bookshop, bookshops, book shop, book shops, library, libraries, librarian, librarians, shelves, shelf, vacation, vacations, holiday, holidays, procrastination, procrastinate, working world, modern life, modern world, grind, daily grind"It's not that I don't like the job you're doing—it's just that I'd like to start seeing other people do it."
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honest, honesty, honesty is the best policy, hire, hired, hiring, hires, personnel, hr, h r, h.r., human resources, business, big business, businessman, businessmen, business man, business men, exec, execs, executive, manager, management, corporate, corporation, corporations, employment, employed, fire, fired, firing, office worker, office drone, office drones, excuse, excuses, workplace, unfair, job, jobs, working world, world of work, capitalism, late stage capitalism, sardonic, sarcastic"I thought he was a genius, but now I find out that he was self-proclaimed."
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executive, executives, business, businessmen, businessman, businesses, office, offices, corporate, corporations, corporation, work, workers, working, working world, market, marketing, markets, profit, profit boost, profits, profitable, profitability, train, training, trained, trainer, genius, geniuses, resume, resumes, ego, egotist, egotistical, failure, failed, failures, recoup, recouping, trust, trusting, trustworthy, reliable, rely, relying, running away, run away, runaway"I'll be on vacation until I find my cell phone."
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phone, phones, mobile, mobiles, mobile phone, mobile phones, cell, cell phone, cell phones, texting, text, modern life, modern world, tech, gadget, gadgets, vacation, vacations, holiday, holidays, work life, working world, work life balance, balance, balancing, beach, beaches, coast, coastal, sand, workaholic, overwork, overworked, work-a-holic, office life, career, careers'Gone Crazy'
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out to lunch, lunch, crazy, crazed, craziness, gone crazy, mad, gone mad, insane, gone insane, surreal, surrealism, strange, strange image, sign, signs, signage, play on words, word play, word-play, shop, shops, store, stores, storefront, shopfront, closed, closed for lunch, open, octopus, balloon, clown, scary, scared, modern life, work, working, working world, modern, modern worldDead Man Presents Flat Line At Meeting
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cardiograph, cardiographs, cardiographer, heart beat, beat, beating, heart beat, dead, died, dying, dies, die, death, meeting, meetings, presentation, present, presents, presenting, prentations, profit, profits, chart, charts, graph, graphs, exec, executive, businessmen, businessman, overwork, overworked, over-work, over-worked, over-working, over work, over worked, stress, stressed, work stress, working world, modern, modern life, modern world"Spare change for those unfortunate enough to have to walk around in a bird costume all day?"
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spare, spare change, change, coins, coin, costume, costumed, chicken, chicken costume, chicken costumes, chicken suits, panhandler, panhandlers, mascot, mascots, chicken suit, beggar, alms, begging, pan-handling, pan-handler, capitalism, late stage capitalism, late-stage capitalism, capitalist, modern, modernity, modern life, working world, advertise, advertising, panhandling"How small will he get?"
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dog, dogs, businessmen, businessman, pupper, puppy, puppies, cute, cutely, tiny, tiny dog, small dog, little dog, doggies, leash, leashed, pet to work, working world, comically small, disparity, size, sizes, misunderstanding, misunderstood, making, making conversation, conversation skills, slip-up, slip of the tongue, slip up, conversational, elevator, liftA Sisyphean Workout At The Gym
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sisyphus, myth of sisyphus, myth, myths, mythical, mythological, mythology, boulder, boulders, punished, cycle, cyclical, vicious cycle, vicious circle, camus, mythology, mythological, greek mythology, culture, cultural, reference, pop culture, legend, legends, philosophy, philosophical, pun, puns, visual gag, gym, gyms, artificial, artificial incline, fitness, fit, fitter, exercise, exercises, circuit, circuits, training, old school, modern life, modern world, working world"I fear there are only so many bamboo metaphors the average reader can tolerate."
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interview, interviews, interviewer, interviewee, interview skills, interview skill, get hired, hired, hiree, hiring, hires, new hire, new hires, panda, pandas, talking animal, talking animals, job, jobs, new job, new jobs, working world, work, world of work, editorial, editor, editors, censor, censorship, metaphor, metaphors, puns, pun, overused, overuse, over used, over use, bamboo, bamboo joke, panda, pandas, cute, cute animals, manuscript, manuscripts, agent, agents, rejection, reject, rejected, book, books, bookish, book worm, book worms"I'm afraid you're a bit too high-minded for us, Rawson. Do you think you could see your way clear to resigning in disgust?"
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businessman, businessmen, exec, execs, executive, executives, career, careers, big business, corporate, corporation, corporations, day job, offices, office job, modern life, modern world, working life, working world, desk job, desk jockey, interview, interviews, interview skills, employment, employ, employed, unemployed, salary, pay cut, cut, cuts, budget cut, budget cuts, undervalued, undersold, undersell, financial crash, negotiate, negotiation, negotiating, contract, contract dispute, contracts, resign, resignation, forced resignation, high-minded, excuses, excuse"Gentlemen, where's the eros?"
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eros, ero, board, boardroom, board of, executive, executives, business, businessmen, businessman, businesses, office, offices, corporate, corporations, corporation, passion, passions, passionate, passionate worker, work, workers, working, working world, conference, conference table, hard work, hard working, market, marketing, markets, profit, profit boost, profits, profitable, profitability, train, training, trained, trainerExec Has His Whole Life At His Desk
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desk life, life, work life, life work, work life balance, life's work, exec, executive, reason to live, sad, sadness, office, office life, desk, desks, desk jockey, desk job, desk jobs, businessmen, businessman, modern life, modern world, working world, world of work, critique, critical, critic, critics, commentary, comment, reduce, reduction, reduction of spirit, dystopia, dystopian, capitalism, capitalist"Sorry—just thinking out loud."
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work, working, workspace, workspaces, work space, office, small office, small offices, desk, desks, desk job, desk jobs, office ecology, office politics, manner, manners, etiquette, thinking out loud, burn, burned, insult, insulted, insults, thinking aloud, annoying, annoyance, annoy, annoyed, working world, antisocial, anti social, anti-social, coworker, coworkers, co-worker, co-workers, open plan, open-plan, metaphor, metaphors, metaphorical, cubicle, cubicles, megaphone, megaphones, respect, respectful, respectfully"Employees must pumice feet."
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employees must, employee bathroom, bathroom, employee toilet, toilet, toilette, toilets, employee toilets, work, working world, world of work, wash hands, hand, hand washing, hand-washing, hygiene, hygienic, pumice, pumice stone, restroom, restrooms, employee restroom, employee restroom, health, health code, up to code, disgust, cringe, cringy, dying inside, offices, sign, signs, strange signs, hr, human resources, h r"And cc the rest of the food chain."
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big boss, boss, boss man, exec, execs, executive, executives, director, directors, governor, governors, desk, receptionist, cc, email, emails, memo, memos, notice, notices, food chain, ecology, ecological, animal kingdom, jungle, corporate jungle, corporate, corporation, corporations, predator, predators, prey, inc, corp, business man, businessman, business men, businessmen, lesser, jungles, kingdom, kingdoms, king, king of the jungle, modern life, modern world, modern, urban, urban life, working, working world, work, worker, workers"I haven't the slightest idea who he is. He came bundled with the software."
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businessman, businessmen, exec, execs, executive, executives, career, careers, big business, corporate, corporation, corporations, day job, offices, office job, office drone, office drones, cubicles, cubicle, offices, office building, office ecology, office politics, modern life, modern world, working life, working world, desk job, desk jockey, responsibility, management, manager, managers, it, software, compute, computers, tech