<p>^JB - s/he</a>, (s)he. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993</p>
<p>Sometimes I feel that way too. I've never plagiarized despite doing most of my essays at the last minute.
When I say monotonous I mean this The Free Dictionary definition:</p>
<p>mo·not·o·nous (m-ntn-s)
adj.
1. Sounded or spoken in an unvarying tone.
2. Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety. See Synonyms at boring.</p>
<p>Especially, number one. The trainer's tone sounds as if these things are common and should be of no surprise to anyone. Number two is kind of pushing it because some of the behavior of the coworkers dulls down the repetitiveness.
I don't if I'm getting my point across, but yeah...</p>
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There has to be a better way than saying "he or she" all the time.
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<p>Agreed. Some people use their or they. It is called "singular their" I've subconsciously used it before, but I don't know if it works in all cases.</p>
<p>Some people use "eir" :)</p>
<p>Spivak</a> pronoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>Singular "their" is a bad, bad idea. It's hated by grammarian and English teachers the world around. If you don't want to use "he or she," say "one," change your phrasing so that "their" can be used appropriately, or be a little sexist and pick a gender.</p>
<p>Anyway, I like the story. A lot. I wish I had Orozoco's skill. All my writing sounds overdone and pretentious, but hey, that's the style I ended up with. Works well for formal essays.
There were two typos. At one point he wrote "teh" instead of "the" ("she hides and cries in a stall in teh women's room"). I can't remember the other one, but it came before "teh."
It reminds me of Joshua Ferris's book Then We Came to the End. The book is about a corporation and is written in 1st person plural so it has this weird collective feeling that I very much felt reading this. That book, like the story, is about the futility of the modern corporation. It's very easy to tell when reading.</p>