Also, I am failing to remember what it is, but I swear there is a book or a movie about a person who has nothing to do at work all day for years on end. I don't think I'm thinking of Bartleby the Scrivener. It seems like something Orwell would have written...

And have you read Martin Lukes? It was a hysterically funny column in the FT written by Lucy Kellaway in the voice of a manager at a company called ab global. Even though the column went on for years, you never found out what ab global actually sold