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I’m treading slowly down a white, shiny corridor. As I head towards the
lifts, I get a bit anxious about having to get through yet another shift as
a data processor, and how to deal with the boredom. I get that oh shit
feeling, here goes another day wasted in this slow, ritualistic daily
torture, like I’m snared in an absurd Kafka-esque nightmare full of
meaningless but never-ending nasty games that we call work. Oh well, I
think “it has to be done”, “another day, another pay”, “I need to pay the
bills”, so I can force myself to enter the workplace and avoid that
fleeting feeling that you just want to flee, to escape, and say “bugger it”
with it all. That daily lived contradiction between being legally free, but
having to sell yourself in the work marketplace in order to live. Even
though I’d love to steal some time and arrive late – or better still take
the day off – I’ve managed to get there just in time. . .

full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/diary-of-an-office-worker-2/
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