It was both a vivid lesson in spiritual calm and a harbinger of workplace issues for senior workers.
In an opening question to someone who had worked under considerable stress in a senior administrative position, I had asked, “What was it like to work in such intense times?”
After a pause he said, “I don’t live intensely. I never have.” He wasn’t in denial of oppression, but was scientifically denying the notion that we’re always vulnerable to the pressures of a work environment and career.
