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They bark into their respective cellphones, sounding important. And in charge. Then the elevator stops. And they look at each other, hungry.

You’re difficult, his boss says. Your talent doesn’t overcome this fact. So he sulks because he’s good at it. And he misses another deadline

His cubicle seemed smaller and it wasn’t because of the morning’s extra pancake. This is starting to suck, he said to no one. Unconvincingly

He walked up to his boss and kissed her hard. Now fire me, he said. Not a chance, she said. He kissed her again. Now you’re fired, she said.

He was dreadfully nervous before the interview and drank too much coffee and then had the longest pee of his life so he missed the interview

He was very uncomfortable. But it wasn’t time to adjust his package. Not with his lousy job on the line. And 300 middle managers in the room