Ha, Charlotte. I used to tell people I was availing myself of the "T. S. Eliot solution" by writing poetry and working for a bank!
Dana has, of course, written poems about the actual experience of working in business. James Autry is famous for doing it and Richard Cole ought to be more famous for doing it. My publisher, Kevin Walzer, has a book of work poetry out. I own several anthologies of work-related poetry in which office work factors, but for some reason you find more blue collar subjects (waitressing, cab driving, salesgirl, factory) and, of course, teaching-related poems, and some doctoring, nursing, and housewifery.
If I have a complaint about the bulk of work poetry I've encountered, it's that most of it is rather prosaic. Straightforward, experiential story-telling in FV. No "umbrella ideas," if you will, and a flat tone. I promise you, In Company isn't like that.
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