Mimics abound. One can’t clean the windows without a number of offers to help and wide advice on technique. Taking out the trash is hazardous as someone is bound to follow.
Places like this are different, full of friendly, lonely and knowledgeable people. There are some who are unresponsive to their environments, smothered in their inner agonies, but they keep to themselves, sometimes gazing at static screens for hours on end.
Most are happy but bored and seek any stimulation and opportunity to espouse their important advice. At least three or four people ask me to listen to their theories and analyses each day – all for a willing ear, just to be believed.
It’s the data! It doesn’t add up, it doesn’t say what I mean! What can I do next, who can I ask?
Look out for Henry, he’s brilliant but he is a terrible narcissist, I bet he’s a psychopath – he tells such lies! But he’s so convincing nobody challenges him.
Just because I am not computer literate doesn’t mean I’m a dummy – why am I still here, they treat me like a cabbage.
If I have to speak to another nutcase who thinks research is a conspiracy I am going to scream….!
Why are we here?
Everything is so easy for some people – look at him, he just knows what everything means all the time – he’s a bloody genius!
I think that woman is a nympho, look at the way men are drooling at her, they should lock her up… and them too!
The other day the way in was blocked and no one could get in and no-one could go out. They even called the Police.
Lunchtime conversations are varied and entertaining and disclose a great deal about morale and the culture of the place.
I’m there because I have to clean up afterwards. As I say there is never a shortage of willing helpers – they are not eager to get back to the grindstone.
Working as a cleaner in a research company is worse than working in a madhouse!
Story proposed by Michelle Craik
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