leaving work
Leaving work is the glorious moment when employees flee the prison called the office at the appointed hour. Expectation and relief mingle in fingers punching the time card, a sacrament for subjects of the overtime kingdom. Yet the ordeal of the homeward rush and that last boss email promptly cancels any sense of freedom. By morning, you’re jostled in commuter trains again… thus entrusting yourself to the eternal loop of corporate penance. Ironically, the end-of-shift chime also heralds the beginning of a new exhaustion.