There’s precarity in the way my new co-workers talk to me, too. “Now that you’re here,” I hear over and over. Now that you’re here, we can evaluate which email programs to grow and which to kill. Now that you’re here, the merchandisers can develop innovative new features for the site. Now that you’re here, we won’t work Saturday nights anymore. Now that you’re here, they’ll see how hard this job is. Now that you’re here, we will be loved. It feels like being Jesus, if everyone had a task list for Jesus written in acronyms he didn’t understand.
