This article is part of TIME on the weekendissue 01/2026.
It only makes sense to start with a complaint, with a pompous “Unfortunately”, a loud woe, a trembling lord jemine, with sighs and moans, so that the conditions about which one can complain are immediately clear, and that happens all the time, in every bar, every tram, every business and on every corner where something is horrible, terrible or sadly dull or unfair, and someone now wants the manager someone somewhere always wants to talk to the CEO, although no one likes people who want to talk to the CEO, not even if these people were furry koalas or adorable mini bull terriers, because unfortunately hardly anyone likes people who whine.
