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Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

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Rob Payne
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 1
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There has to be a better use for titanium than golf clubs.
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People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.
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My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.
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If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.
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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.
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Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.
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I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.
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People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.
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It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.
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