“Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?”

tags: adult-fiction, anti-utopia, bad-manager, carla-krueger, comedy, contemporary, dark, humor, humour, office-politics, office-worker, orwell, poison, psychological, quick-read, short-book, short-story, subversive, twisted