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My mood truly bottoms out at the end of the week,
specifically when I am presented with my paycheck.
Now, I am not countin' on the money I earn as a worker
type, as I am already bein' well subsidized by the Boss.
Nonetheless I am surprised to see the amount my week's
worth of toil has actually brought me. To be truthful, I
have again yielded to the temptation of understatement.
I was not surprised, I was shocked . . . which is not a
good thing for, as anyone in the Mob can tell you, when
I am shocked I tend to express the unsettlement of my
nerves physically.

The fact that I am not needin' the money in question
means that I was only a little shocked, so it only took
three of my fellow worker types to pull me off the payroll
type what slipped me the bad news. Of course, by that
time I had also been hit by a couple of tranquilizer darts
which I am told is standard issue for most companies in
the Bazaar to ease personnel relations. If, perchance,
your company does not already follow this policy, I hear-
tily give it my recommend, as it certainly saves deprecia-
tion on your payroll types and therefore minimizes the
expense of trainin' new ones.

Anyway, once I am calmed down to a point where I




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am merely tossin' furniture and the payroll type has re-
composed himself, which is to say he has received suf-
ficient first aid to talk, he explains the realities of life to
me. Not only has the cost of the aforementioned carousin'
been deducted from my eamin's, but also charges for
my room which, realizin' the figure quoted only repre-
sents a third of the take on that facility, puts it several
notches above the poshest resort it has ever been my
decadent pleasure to patronize. Also there is an itemized
bill for every bit or scrap of waste that has occurred at
my duty station durin' the week, down to the last speck