As Expected, Barack Obama Is TIME's Person of the Year: TIME
Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 10:57AM Why History Can’t Wait: TIME Magazine
You probably sat in a fancier conference room the last time you refinanced or heard a pitch about life insurance. There’s a table, some off-brand mesh office chairs, a bookcase that looks as if it had been put together with an Allen wrench and instructions in Swedish.
To reach this room, you pass through a cubicle farm lightly populated by quiet young people. Either they have just arrived or they are just leaving, because their desks are almost bare. The place has a vaguely familiar feel to it, this air of transient shabbiness and nondescriptitude. You can’t quite put your finger on it …
“It’s like the set of The Office,” someone offers.
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