“People drop off the radar once they leave the office. Week after week you form these intense bonds without quite realizing it. All that time together adds up... You see co-workers more than you see your so-called friends, even more than you see your significant others, your spouses if you have them... We know each other well but only to a point.”
Dryly witty and well observed with definite similarities to Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris, but maybe that says more about the repetition of office life, which is examined so expertly in both books. As for the claims by reviewers that it's not funny enough, I would disagree. Like Then We Came to the End, Personal Days excels in a well-judged tone of tragicomedy based on sad-but-true reflections that make will perfect sense to office workers and indeed anyone who contemplates the small wonders and banalities of a working life.
