Post Office. Chapter II: 10
The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the basement, all those dull things.
God o mighty, I thought, I wish he’d hurry up. My lunch is over two hours late now.
Then the guide handed us all timecards. He showed us the timeclocks.
“Now here is how you punch in.”
He showed us how. Then he said, “Now, you punch in.”
Twelve and one half hours later we punched out. That was one hell of a swearing-in ceremony.
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