Not broked but broken

A hallmark of Subsistence Broking in Austerity Britain is the lunchtime queue for the office microwave, snaking out of the kitchen and out onto the trading floor with hungry employees clutching their pathetic Tupperware containers of last night’s leftovers ready to be reheated and re-served like so much research analysis. And so, on Monday I queued patiently with everyone else who was eating al desko not fresco, with the remnants of Sunday’s barbecue waiting in my lunchbox.