Following Peter’s lead, I’m attempting a Labor Day post that involves as little actual labor on my part as possible.

From Wayne Koestenbaum’s Humiliation, which I’m currently making my way through:

“Employment is humiliating. Who hasn’t heard — or told — a story about workplace humiliation. My boss is a monster. My employees call me Fatso behind my back: I’ve read their emails. In the TV show The Office, the smarmy boss cheerfully humiliates his staff, and the show is a hit, because any working person want to reinterpret daily indignities — the pus-filled blister of functioning within a bureaucracy — as farce, a style of theater that, as political catalyst, may be more effective than melodrama.”