“Like so many other office workers of the world, I will obey my master, the clock, and will obediently nod to my co-workers and make small talk about sports, kids and weather - all things I'm not genuinely interested in.”

—  Rob Payne

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 1, p. 1

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