<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451994" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Brave Officials Like Us</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We sit in the cold of the North Pole with <br>air-con on freezing, stoically wrapped in <br>our blankets and wearing wool socks with <br>thick-soled shoes - not fashion material - <br>yet we are all here in the open-plan office <br>except Madame Olympia whose special <br>enclosure, sound-proof - separate from <br>the rest on this floor - is empty</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We suspect she suffers claustrophobia as <br>we ourselves would if we sat there, though <br>she has her own special air-con - can turn <br>it on warm while we shiver out here; in spite <br>of our ice-trap, we are here and she does not <br>even call with an excuse, the psychiatrist will <br>probably say sensitive people like Madame <br>Olympia are too good to mix with pioneers </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like us who can work in all conditions - Sir <br>Hillary would have been proud to have us <br>accompany him on his trip up Mount Everest, <br>we would have put all the Sherpa's to shame, <br>if we were in the trenches in WWII we would <br>have won the war single-handedly - so it is <br>easy to see why Mme Olympia cannot be <br>among such brave officials like us! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[Work Chronicles Friday - 26 October 2012]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451994" data-title="Brave Officials Like Us de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="We sit in the cold of the North Pole with air-con on freezing, stoically wrapped in our blankets and wearing wool socks with thick-soled shoes - not fashion material - yet we are all here in the open-plan office except Madame Olympia whose sp..."></div> </div> </div>

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