“She might have to use her employee discount to buy something more threatening today, although at the moment the most dangerous thing she could think of that Neiman Marcus had to offer was the employee discount itself.”
“Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.”
“Now looking across my latte at this confident smiling Starbucks employee I felt sorry for myself. She seemed carefree to me so young so full of options. Later I would learn that she had seen more hardship in her life than I could conceive of having seen in three lifetimes.”
“She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.”
“She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears”
“PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest.”