Niall Murtagh begins "The Blue-Eyed Salaryman" with good humor and a wry, self-deprecating smile:
" 'So you're gonna become an ant,' said straight-talking Thomas (an Austrian colleague) that day, many years ago, when I told him about the job.
'Me? An ant? Course not. I'm just gonna see what it's like, then move on.' "
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