We take it for granted that many of these actions – preparing lunch or so-called “outside interests” – should not be included as part of a workplace history, but why do we take it for granted? Why is it an obvious point that money, ownership and the role played in the maintenance of power are the central facts of a workplace? For that to be an obvious point, a decision or set of decisions had to be made about what is valuable, a decision that is now forgotten, and it is in part this subterranean decision and our consent to its dictates that denudes us of our effectiveness. If we knew of these unsanctioned memories, recounted them and valued them as part of our history and part of the history of a place or institution, we could build on our efforts and accomplishments. Doing this, however, would ultimately render us uncontrollable to those in power, for it is on this directed forgetting that much of power rests.