Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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7 months, 1 week ago

caesura

Or that there wasn’t a caesura, that the career, as we call it, was something like a recipe experiment for the summer, something one had to have tried out before returning to regular recipes.

—p.81 Five (75) by Heike Geissler
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7 months, 1 week ago

there are places where you can be slow

You trot after Norman as he leads you around the hall. Two forklift drivers accompany your group, disappearing between the shelves, popping up again at the end of an aisle, blocking the way, joking around with Norman, who sends them away: Haven’t you got anything better to do?

Not much up today,…

—p.52 Three (47) by Heike Geissler
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7 months, 1 week ago

sick days harm Amazon

A picture of a bleeding hand comes up. This doesn’t look good, says Sandy, not turning round to the screen. This is an employee’s hand. He was working on the conveyor belt. When the belt stopped he put his hand inside the mechanism to adjust the slipped belt. The belt started moving again. There wa…

—p.41 Two (30) by Heike Geissler
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7 months, 1 week ago

to provide us with more comfortable seats

You’d like to contradict him, incidentally, and say: I, who am also a customer of this company, would be glad to sit more comfortably here. And I think the company could afford to provide us with more comfortable seats without having to raise prices for the customer.

You don’t say that, though, …

—p.39 Two (30) by Heike Geissler
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7 months, 1 week ago

you’d have to tell the company’s customers

So now you’re on your way to a training day at Amazon which you won’t be paid for taking part in. Of course you ought to be paid for taking part in the training day. There’s a quiet complaint to be heard inside you as you approach the company premises, but there’s no one there to listen to you, or …

—p.32 Two (30) by Heike Geissler