the director again

When the director paces in front of my desk, talking about interfacing with Adelson, Molasky, Wynn, Reid, and the other big players and begins to speak in terms of joint synergy and increased productivity I long to tell him we are working with people! Yet I realize he is in need of admiration and I stretch back in the blue chair the previous director, MJ, left me when she retired and take refuge in the fact that there are some of us left who remember what we are about. And from my blue chair I can listen to him admire himself. And when he is finished, I realize it is a social worker's job to help people and he is a person.