[Book Sip] 12 Workers' Stories of Overcoming Workplace Pain 'Even as Bugs, We Must Go to Work'

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Twelve people suffering from corporate life appear. They become distant from their families due to overseas assignments, gradually turning into colorless humans who can no longer feel joy or sorrow through their work life, receive unfair orders because they only have a high school diploma, or invest a large sum of money wanting to leave the company but lose everything. They endure all kinds of pain that can be experienced in corporate life, and overcome it by reading books. From books like Metamorphosis, The Locked Room, The Catcher in the Rye, A Room of One's Own, The Myth of Fairness to animations like Crayon Shin-chan. They find ways to endure the dreadful corporate life through these stories.

Assistant Manager Choi was sad. A company worker who worries about being late and the boss's scolding even after turning into a bug. He felt depressed realizing that he himself was exactly such a company worker. What kind of being is a company worker? What kind of form am I turning into now? Assistant Manager Choi glanced at his limbs. _Page 21, “Overslept and snapped at family”

A cockroach becomes the worst being deserving death simply because it displeases people. If the cockroach knew this situation, what would it say? Wouldn't it immediately ask like this?

“Who do you think you are? What is a human? How are you different from me?” _Page 26, “Overslept and snapped at family”

The door that was thought to be closed is actually open. It was myself who assumed it was always closed and never even tried to open it. Manager Kim decided to walk out now. _Page 51, “They say they will install CCTV in the office”

People sometimes suffer from inexplicable depression. And most try to get through these gloomy moments with thoughts like “People get depressed sometimes,” “You have to endure it to make a living,” or “Am I just being overly sensitive?” However, lightly dismissed depression does not disappear but accumulates steadily inside you, always waiting for a chance to break you down. _Page 55, “Depression came after missing a promotion”

Deputy Manager Lee also likes this book. Although it is a coming-of-age novel that seems suitable for adolescent teenagers, he has read it several times in his forties. That does not mean Deputy Manager Lee plans to kill some celebrity with a gun. Of course, he cannot deny that such thoughts sometimes suddenly arise, but no matter how much he curses his company boss, he has no real intention to kill. _Page 56, “Depression came after missing a promotion”

You Have to Go to Work Even If You Become a Bug | Written by Park Yunjin | HanbitBiz | 312 pages | 16,000 KRW

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