In Part 1 of George Saunders’s Four Institutional Monologues, George describes how having a negative attitude leads to doing a job poorly while being positive makes the job more efficient and quicker. Saunders makes some solid points on how you, the employee, agreed on doing the job well and if you don’t, you will be replaced. It is life. You work to get your paycheck and if you can’t do the job well, then you will struggle in life. He makes another reference to lifting a heavy dead whale carcass on to a flatbed and how even with a neutral attitude made the task very difficult. After the group talked the task over and got excited about it with a positive attitude, they were able to lift the dead rotting whale on to the flatbed. This goes to