Sublime

Office work becomes an empty parody of real human social life. A dried-up husk of having to pretend to laugh, having to pretend to care, engage in small talk and business talk indefinitely. Futures postponed; emails answered.

Unhappily biding my time in an office doing a job that doesn’t excite me? And on top of everything, come home and not be able to stop thinking about work? There is never any escape from the petty frictions and irritations of dealing with other people, and having to come down on them about squaring the accounts and books. I might as well be at work

Avant d’intégrer le service public de l’emploi, il y a près de quinze ans, Dorothée{227} a connu plusieurs formations et métiers, dans des secteurs très variés. Une appétence pour le social et l’accompagnement des demandeurs d’emploi l’a portée vers l’ANPE. Quand il a fallu choisir entre public et privé, la conseillère, aujourd’hui proche de la cin