Faceless drone in a vast bureaucracy check-in

Are you a sailor on the seas of paperwork?

My heart pumps weakly bitter cafeteria coffee.

yes, we are all semen

It's fun to charter an accountant, and sail the wide accountan-sea

That fortuneteller said my aura is beige, and my lifeline doesn't exactly stop, it just fades.

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According to state regulation 454.0469a18, cheese, milk, cream, butter and other dairy products are disallowed under the category "paperwork."

No one else? I suspect widespread frontin'.

I think it can be taken as read that the majority of ILXors are slaving away inside the machinery of enormous corporations.

i come to ilx to not think about this

Really, snoball? I tend not to imagine ILXors as particularly corporate. I imagine people in mid-sized workplaces with tasks segmented clearly enough that they don't much have to think of themselves as meaningless cogs in much grander structures. (I mean, my work is ultimately on behalf of an international publicly traded corporation, but on a day-to-day basis I am doing specific concrete tasks with specific other people, not navigating a hellish bureaucracy of filling out triplicate forms whose end purpose is completely obscure to me and submitting them to any one of six supervisors whose demands I need an org chart to fully understand.)

Don't forget the academics. And librarians.

They fit that description, don't they? Mid-sized workplace, clear and non-obscure tasks, don't have to feel like cogs?

Don't forget the academics. And librarians.

Never heard of them.

Fine, the academic admin types, then.

Oh crap did my dad start posting?