Joe: Script for audio excerpt
Kathy: Do you love Johnny Cash?
Joe: Hi, I'm Johnny Cash (singing).
Kathy: Is that your favorite type of music?
Joe: (singing) Take this job and shove it. I'm not coming this place no more. He used to say that.
Kathy: I will sing that with you if you want to sing it because I do, I really love that song.
Joe: Do you like Kenny Rogers?
Kathy: Yes, I do like Kenny Rogers.
Joe: Know when to hold em,
Kathy: Know when to walk away…
Joe: Country Western.
Kathy: Exactly. Do you get to play music here? No? How long you’ve been here?
Joe: I’ve been here about 20 years.
Kathy: Wow. Do you remember when you first came?
Joe: Yeah, I was young.
Kathy: Were you? You're still young.
Joe: Yeah, but I'm getting up there now.
Kathy: Ok, oh.
Kathy: Well do you have good friends here?
Joe: I have a couple friends. Not that much.
Kathy: Mm-hm.
Joe: You know Myers? He’s not here no more. He passed away.
Kathy: I'm sorry.
Joe: He’d been sick a long time.
Celia: You were friends.
Joe: Yeah.
Joe: I do miss, I my all my friends passed away.
Celia: Sure.
Joe: I’m running out of friends, a little bit. You know, a little bit sad or I sad and were not too happy…
Kathy: Well maybe you'll get some new friends.
Joe: I figured I have to move on to a different job. Like I been doing, like I did a long time ago with more people like me.
Kathy: Right. Are you a good worker?
Joe: Oh yeah. Everybody says…you know the bottles, they're like 50 pounds. They say, “Joe, you're strong, lifting boxes up.”
Kathy: Mm hmm. That’s heavy. Does it feel good to keep busy?
Joe: Keeps me out of trouble.
Kathy: And keeps you in shape?
Joe: Yep.
Kathy: Yeah that’s true. Makes the day go by?
Joe: Fast.
Kathy: Yes. But you said you'd like to work somewhere else. Where is that?
Joe: I’ll think on that.
Kathy: Yeah, that’s OK. You can think about it.
Joe: Maybe at the store or things like that.
Kathy: Is that sound more…
Joe: Restaurant. I can work there too. I’d like that.
Joe: But I don’t know what I’m doing here. I'm smart and high functioning, I don’t know why they put me here.