The Craftsman (n.) who is a master in London's furniture trade haggles each Saturday at the store as if at a pawnshop — really only a middleman between the merchant and his own journeymen.
Craftsman (n.) of the early nineteenth century hired readers to read him real books while he made shoes — and fought the factory that would treat him like a machine.
A Craftsman (n.) is someone whose mistakes have to be sanded, not explained.
A Craftsman (n.) is a placid soul who seeks a life-enhancing alternative to sweating over contracts and deadlines, then finds it by creating ceramic vegetables or gingham bunnies.
An Employee (n.) rents out the hours in which they are most awake.
An Employee (n.) stays loyal until the afternoon they find out what the new hire is paid.
An Employee (n.) gets a pizza for the quarter in which they saved the company a building.
An Employee (n.) is to be trusted — If you suspect a man, don't employ him; if you employ him, don't suspect him.
An Essential worker (n.) is like a load-bearing wall that gets thanked once a year.
An Essential worker (n.) is indispensability without the raise.
An Essential worker (n.) means the work cannot stop, which was never a statement about the person doing it.
An Essential worker (n.) is like a load bearing wall, noticed on the drawings only when somebody wants to remove it.
A Functionary (n.) is like a rubber stamp that thinks it chose.
A Functionary (n.) is a spine rented to a procedure.
A Functionary (n.) ruins a week and sleeps because the form was right.
The Functionary (n.) is far more dangerous than a monster; far more numerous, and ready to believe and act without asking questions.