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Office workers have always taken it to be a mirror of-- of a bad office, bad office work.
And Bartleby's famous phrase, "I would prefer not to"-- when his boss asks him to work, he just says "I would prefer not to"-- it's
the encapsulation of how the office has its way of reducing all titanic conflicts to petty grievances and simmering resentments.
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