It sure is.

Your bra chafes. The AC’s more decorative than functional. You’re one heat wave away from melting into a Formerly Attractive Not Secretary.

Of course, whenever some fool opens the door, you’re right in the draft of seriously cold air from the shopping mall’s gallery. Thankfully it doesn’t happen too often, because the most obvious advantage of this location is the very cheap rent. Nobody else than the owner would choose to set up shop at the back of a shopping mall, in full view of the delivery trucks and trash collection workers… and that’s about it.

It had sort of started well.

Welcome to the team,” they said. “You’ll grow here,” they promised. Sure, like a cactus under a sunlamp. And yet you’re not even paid extra for your role as the company’s ornamental shrub.