Recently, a book on the topic crossed my desk, which presents another dimension of workplace tears: Women may be just as likely possibly more likely to condemn other women who have cried at work.

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While the outcry troubled me, the terrible stories meant I could no longer ignore a book that had arrived on my desk.

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Former employees say Ellison keeps a book on his desk about Genghis Khan, the ruthless Mongol warlord.

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At night he worked at the computer desk in the bedroom, before getting into bed and reading a few pages of the book on his nightstand.

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And so, when I arrived to work to find a book on my desk called Seeking Happily Ever After: Navigating The Ups And Downs of BEING SINGLE Without Losing Your Mind I was feeling a little Twilight Zone-y.

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He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat with a book taken from the library, copied all its pages on the Xerox machine, and sat at his desk reading what looked to passersby like the honest pages of business.

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