Morale might have been high among the elite code breakers whom Ann Caracristi hung out with, but among the rank and file at Arlington Hall Station, complaints included everything from whirring fans to coworkers snapping gum. Bad insulation, unpleasant bosses, tablemates who smoked and lollygagged—all these were grounds for bitter complaint. It was the first time many of the women had spent time in a bona fide workplace—apart from a classroom—and they discovered what workplaces are and have been since the dawn of time: places where one is annoyed and thwarted and underpaid and interrupted and
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