Everything begins with an equally ubiquitous yet mostly overlooked groan: The employees at the mid-level of the IT corporation McWorthy silently suffer under the demands of their jobs. They can never be sure where they are and where they are headed or should be heading. Their last resort for self-preservation: a flight into the irrational. The upgrade to First Class becomes a life goal; the sacrifice of a USB stick turns into a career boost, and their own accidental death in a beloved convertible becomes a somehow relieving wishful dream. With all sorts of fantasies and fictions, the characters in these stories try to make their work life bearable or push themselves into new distortions and subjugations. Unspoken behind it all is the question: Why do you endure all of this?.