“You’re so quiet,” say the people at work.
\n“Am I?” I ask. “Should I be hollering?”
\n“Yes!” they say. “You should!”<\/p>\n
There is a woman who works in the office and she is so loud I can hear her coming from the parking lot. Last week she was in a room that shares a wall with my desk. She was photocopying, or trying to. She doesn’t usually photocopy things.<\/p>\n
“GODDAMN IT!” I heard. I moved my papers around on my desk and smiled a little.
\n“MOTHER FUUUUCKER! COME ON! COME ON!” She banged something. The copier rattled churlishly.
\n“OH I MEAN SERIOUSLY YOU GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING–”<\/p>\n
If I could type in something louder than all caps, I would. She’s that loud. <\/p>\n
I love that it’s acceptable to shout swear words in the office where I work. I’ll probably hold my tongue for another month or so, if only because the paper I have to move around requires all my concentration at the moment, but knowing that letting a curse word slip free will endear me to rather than estrange me from the people I work with goes a long way to making me feel comfortable and like I have found a place I could stay a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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