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"Petra doesn’t discuss humor until chapter 10, so let’s table the wit, okay?"

I nodded and pursed enial threat Apparently, "oxyo-to word of the day Friendly and fierce Congenial and threat

Lukas offered us a tight sood for the hu, wouldn’t you agree?"

Jackie and I nodded du the fat ‘An overweight body will harm a person’s health, both in the now and down the road,’" Lukas recited I got the feeling he’d been listening to Petra spout her wisdo to while aardly sprinting at his treadmill desk I wondered what she sounded like

"You want us to drop soht?" Jackie asked, and I was thrilled to hear a hint of rebellion in her voice "I’m fifty-one years old If I want to drop a pound, I have to eat four hundred calories a day That’s only one Lean Cuisine--"

"I’ht," Lukas interjected as his eyes scrolled over Jackie’s muffin top "Our company should shed a few To survive, and thrive, we need to be lean"

"We can get rid of the Christ "And the company picnic this summer We don’t really need kombucha delivered every Friday, do we?"

Lukas shook his head "Staff We need to cut two jobs"

Your dad hired these people just over a year ago I didn’t say it out loud He hadn’t said which jobs, but Jackie and I were by far the highest paid, et the boot I shuddered at the thought of life on the unemployment line When your professional life is about to end, it’s not your personal history that flashes before your eyes, but your bills--e, car note, tuition, utilities I had to ask, "Were you thinking of any two people in particular?"

Jackie inhaled sharply

Lukas tapped the book in my arms "That’s the beauty of Petra’s philosophy It’s coets let go" He s to say next was a gift "Did you notice the new desk configuration?"

Pretty tough to miss, I wanted to say, but instead, I bit the inside of my mouth and simply nodded

"Petra believes in community," Lukas continued on enthusiastically "All the computer terminals are now shared property That e can all learn each other’s jobs, helping when appropriate, filling in when e the workload What if you need to take the afternoon off for a doctor’s appointment? Rhiannon can finish up your work Or Seth or Glynnis or Byron Petra says we shouldn’t believe in passwords, we should believe in passwork Ih a talented designer, Rhiannon snorted Adderall like an ’80s coke fiend on her lunch break, and Seth thought the workday should prih inappropriate websites and choosing exactly which porn episode he’d spend quality ti I wondered hoould fare in this new deer, inal talent And quiet, mousy Glynnis? She’d barely made a peep into worry about

"These principlesinto hts "And I hope they do to you The next few e for Guh"