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Daily commute to Shawmut Bank
as a JCL conversion specialist with ASA
drive to Hingham and the bus to Quincy 
Red Line to South Station twice a day.
A black guy in a white service jacket
morning coffee wheeled through cubes
David and I working the same job 
prior to we haven't been professional. 
To answer our questions a contractor with expertise
ordinarily arrived late 
lunched on doubles and was fired
by then we didn’t need him anyway.
A VSAM administrator of disk-pack allocations
said he’s making 90k in 1982.
A 30 year-old vice president was superior at corporate politics.
4 o’clock returning from the Combat Zone
passengers were unsteady on the elevator up.
As Shawmut downtown concluded
through four decades it never happened
nor working with David again.