My Coworkers T.e.as.ed Me for Eating Lunch with the Lonely Janitor Every Day for 11 Years – At His F.u.ner.al, His [email protected] Pulled Me Aside and Said, ‘Mr. Wilson Left This for You’

“career trajectory” when I sat with the janitor every day, as if being near him might somehow rub off and get me transferred to mop duty.

I brushed off every one of those remarks with a laugh.

But laughing something away is not the same as not feeling it, and most evenings I drove home replaying their words, wondering whether I had truly become the office continue reading …