Summary

In “The Postering Job,” the narrator told Mrs. Masakado the cracker packet job had been good. Really, she “hadn’t been able to get over the fear that [her] job would be stolen away . . . by the type of person” to whom she was averse (223). She could not admit that she had “run away,” fearing a gulf would form between her and her director and coworkers (223). She told Mrs. Maskado that all she wanted was “an easy job” where unexpected things that shook her confidence would not happen (225). Mrs. Maskado found her a job with a postering company. The company “had been entrusted by a government agency to stick up posters promoting road safety awareness and so on” on local houses and shops (226). The narrator would walk the neighborhood, replacing the posters as necessary.

The narrator met with her new boss Mr. Monaga...