"Wresting Bodies"

During the handing-out-of-cards meeting, Jeannie, the floater receptionist, had mentioned that she thought it was a good idea that we were now engaging in a tacitly understood system of tallies on the upper right-hand corners of incoming faxes; but that we should use this opportunity, now that we’re all “corralled”, to “flesh out” exactly how we were going to make this system work for us, rather than against us.

I had always felt impassive towards Jeannie...