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    <![CDATA[Then We Came to the End]]>
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    <![CDATA[The dot-com bubble has burst and rolling layoffs have hit an unnamed Chicago advertising firm sending employees into an escalating siege mentality as their numbers dwindle. As a parade of employees depart, bankers boxes filled with their personal effects, those left behind raid their fallen comrades' offices, sifting through the detritus for the errant desk lamp or Aeron chair. <br/><br/>Written with confidence in the tricky-to-pull-off first-person plural, the collective fishbowl perspective of the &quot;we&quot; voice nails the dynamics of cubicle culture--the deadlines, the gossip, the elaborate pranks to break the boredom, the joy of discovering free food in the breakroom. Arch, achingly funny, and surprisingly heartfelt, it's a view of how your work becomes a symbiotic part of your life. A dysfunctional family of misfits forced together and fondly remembered as it falls apart. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two people recommended this to me in the same week. They both know I don't read much and that I have a short attention span and am unenthusiastic about things. And they both said, &quot;You should read this. I think you might really like reading it.&quot; And I did.]]></body>
    
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